A Real-Life Desert Oasis: Huacachina
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5 min readApr 2, 2023
I didn’t realise oases actually existed before visiting this surreal town.
I used to think desert oases were merely mirages or fantasies from cartoons I watched as a child — a scene out of Aladdin or Looney Tunes. Picturesque round lagoons ringed by lush vegetation in the middle of sand dunes didn’t seem like a plausible concept to me. This was until I visited Huacachina in southwestern Peru and…
