A small village about three kilometres from Huacachina, easy to combine with a desert visit. Cachiche is best known in Peru as a settlement of brujas (witches) — for generations, traditional healers have practised here, and the streets are still lined with houses offering limpias (cleansings), readings, and herbal medicine.
The village's other landmark is a single, much-photographed palm tree with seven separate trunks, said to be the work of a witch and to portend ill if an eighth ever grows. There is a small statue of a witch on a broomstick in the central square. Worth a half-hour stop on the way back to Ica, especially if the city's other attractions don't fill your day.