Bridget hurls over ancient archaeological site.

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That´s right folks, for the second time in three weeks Bridget has found that keeping her breakfast under control while being in a mode of transport slightly alien to her is an impossible feat.

The gory details...
Stuart and Jez were both really keen on flying over the Nazca Lines in a light aircraft, so we booked our tickets on arrival in Nazca on Wednesday. Bridget didn´t really fancy it so decided to watch from the sidelines. But come the day of the trip to the lines she just couldn´t resist and signed up. Unfortunately we were seperated, so Stuart was on one plane (a four-seater) and Jez and Bridget on another (a six-seater).

The flight over the lines took about half an hour, during which we flew over the famous images that the Nazca people carved into the desert floor almost two thousand years ago, including a monkey, a whale, a spider, and a flamingo. Not only that, but there are hundreds of dead-straight lines that disappear towards the horizon and trapezoidal clearings that were probably some kind of meeting-place for the Nazcas.

Jez thought that the experience of seeing these images first-hand was amazing... how did these ancient people manage to achieve such a feat? Were they for religious, astronomical, or ceremonial purposes?
Bridget thought "bloody hell this is gonna make me chunder" and managed to fill the supplied plastic barf-bag with undigested breakfast matter, including papaya juice.

The disappointing thing was that we had done 90% of the flight, and were on the way back to the airport (a strip of runway in the desert) when the eruption began. Jez, being the magnamimous soul that he is (can you tell who´s writing this?) helped by passing the wet wipes for Bridget to wipe the liquid puke from off her glasses.

Stuart meanwhile tells the story that he was fine on take-off but after levelling out it was a case of mind over matter to prevent a Bridget-esque catastrophe.

But we all got down safely, and we were all pleased to be back on terra ferma. Hope fully the pics of the images in the desert will give an idea of what we saw.


Back to the picture of the moon on the previous entry.
We had been to a presentation the evening before in a planetarium about the Nazca lines (which was really good) and the chap running the show had set up a telescope so we could look at the moon. It was a full moon and a very clear sky so we had a fantastic view of it, and were able to take photos though the telescope.


The other picture is of the tough afternoon we had in our hostal before getting the bus to Arequipa!

Ta ra
Jez, Bridget, and Stuart
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Photos

Relaxing after a hard day´s hurling
Bridget is thinking about you all at the Cedars. You would never guess would you?!

Comments

[Dawn]

Well done to Jez for having the wet wipes to hand. Dried puke is a bugger to get off glass!!