Buggy & sandboard tour in Nazca: Cantalloc, Cahuachi and the Usaca dunes

If you love adrenaline, Nazca has a plan few people know that beats the Ica buggies: a desert tour mixing adventure, archaeology and dunes. Here's the route.

Aqueducts and cemeteries along the way

The tour usually starts past the Cantalloc Aqueducts —the famous spiral puquios— and looted cemeteries in the desert, sites raided by grave robbers where remains are still visible. Raw and fascinating at once.

Cahuachi, the great adobe city

The buggy heads for Cahuachi, the huge Nazca adobe ceremonial center. Arriving via the desert route, among dunes, gives it an edge the tour bus can't match.

Sandboarding the Usaca dunes

The finale: sandboarding the Usaca dunes. Sliding down fine sand with the Nazca desert all around is hard to forget —and, for many, better than the crowded Ica version.

After all that sand, head down to the main square and refuel at El Adriano with a good lunch or a cocktail. Got another day? See more things to do in Nazca.