Nazca and Lima In the last days of our vacation we stopped at one place on our way back to Lima, namely the town Nazca. Nazca is best known for the Nazca Lines, a vast collection of geoglyphs that can be seen in the nearby Nazca Desert. The Nazca Lines are dominated by two different categories of figures. The first category is large pictures of animals, birds and insects. There is a monkey, a hummingbird, a human and a whale for instance. The largest of these figures are well over 100 meters across. The second category is large geometrical shapes and long straight lines. Some of these straight lines are 10 kilometres long or more and the geometrical figures are sometimes also several kilometres from one end to the other.
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