Cleaning the museum in Lima

Sand Boring and Nazca Lining

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March 19th 2008
Ola everybody We are in Nazca, effectively between Lima and Arequipa and stopped off to view the famous Nazca lines, the spooky, child like, crop circle-ish drawings in the desert. No-one quite knows what they are, why they are there and what they mean but they look nice, especially from a tiny titchy plane at 7 in the morning as we experienced this morning. Well worth the trip.. unlike Huaraca ... read more

South America » Peru » Ica » Nazca » Nazca Lines

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more