Blogs from Nazca Lines, Nazca, Ica, Peru, South America - page 18

We moved onto Nazca after a couple of days in the sun. Thought it would be a good idea to take a look at the famous Nazca Lines. We arrived and found a hostel our usual way of closing our eyes and point to somewhere on the page in the lonely planet guide :) if we didnt like it,we would just walk until we found something we liked. The town itself is rather cool, we managed to find luinch one day for about $0.20 and we couldnt even finish it!!! there was waay too much food. And Keeping in line with the strict Health and Safety rules here in Peru we passed numerous shops with skin chickens sitting on tables out in the sun and nicely covered with flies, maybe thats a reason we didnt eat ... read more

My bad luck with transport continued I managed to miss my bus from Lima to Nazca and ended up getting the late service which arrived into Nazca about 2am. A 7 hour journey, pritty nice bus though, plenty of leg room. NAZCA, Peru *Height Above Sea Level : 592m *Miles From Luton : 6379 Checked into the Hotel Estrella del Sur and arranged a flight over the Nazca Lines in the morning, well a few hours later. The cost $55, it seems in Peru that US Dollars are taken everywhere and preferred if your spending big bucks! 7:30am its baking hot I'm knackered and being driven by the hotel owner to the Nazca Airport. The flight is at 10:30am, I try a full American style breakfast to sort myself out - which I'll later regret. The ... read more

Sunday 6 November Hi Folks, Think I got my diary dates wrong for Friday and Saturday - sorry!! Anyway - here goes with the rest of my great weekend!! On Sunday morning I woke up early after a great night´s sleep to have breakfast with the others on the trip and then head off to see the amazing Nazca lines. Nazca appears to be spelt interchangeably in Peru with a ´Z´ and a ´C´. Not quite sure which is correct. Anyway, the Nazcas are an historic Peruvian culture which predated the Incas. They drew some amazing pictures in the desert area around Nazca which were only discovered in the current century. They are only visible from the air, and the Peruvians were totally unaware that they existed, so much so that they built the Pan American ... read more

Our Huacachina hostel owner turned out to be a regular tourist baron. He had fingers in all sorts of pies and was able to arrange a trip straight to Nazca, another 2hours south by bus, with a night in a hostel followed by a light aircraft flight over the ´Nazca Lines´. There are all sorts of theories about who and why these lines were created, and we were shown a video before our flight (twice!) about some of them. The main idea, was that these huge images of a Condor, a Monkey, a Humming bird and various others etched into the landscape were designed and made by the Incas, and were intended to be ´processed´around by the people playing instruments and singing to worship their gods. We had been warned not to eat breakfast before the ... read more

Yo yo yáll, this is Rich. well, i took my beloved for ANOTHER birthday extravaganza (count them, that´s TWO presents! and a card! that´s more than ive ever got anyone else ever! its probably more than everyone else combined too). this time was a fantastically expensive (about 30 quid)flight over the nazca lines in a cessna. how brilliant am i? im surprised you have to ask, but basically im fantastic, and by far the best boyfriend anyone could ever have. The lines are cool. Everybody knows about the figures, but the lines are probably more interesting, mainly because nobody knows what they{re really for. Despite several unlikely theories about pre-olympic running tracks and alien landing sites (i mean honestly, does that sound likely? idiots, idiots everywhere...) they probably relate to religious stuff and sources of sub-terranean ... read more