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South America » Peru » Ica » Nazca » Nazca Lines November 12th 2008

Day 593 (11.11.08) After a pretty sleepless and cold night on the bus we arrived in Nazca a little the worse for wear. Teaming up with a German girl called Kat we found our hostel, the WalkOn Inn and checked into our room. Unfortunately we couldn't get in until 12.30 so had a huge brekkie at the hostel and got chatting to a couple more of the guests staying who had a fascinating story of retiring and doing up a yacht before sailing it around to see the world. With our room available, Chrissie got scrubbed up whilst Mark went into town to see what there was on offer and to see what the competitive price was for flights over the Nazca lines, the reason for our visit. Nazca is a small town so it didn't ... read more
Us and the plane
Flying over the Nazca Lines
Flying over the Nazca Lines

South America » Peru » Ica » Nazca » Nazca Lines November 11th 2008

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. - Anais Nin We all have dreams, but all too often we let our fears get in the way of them. Some people are just contented enough to dream and let them remain as such, others all too often let dreams become their master. Either way we all let the noise of life deafen us from what we really want and need. Finding that balance is hard enough, let alone a harmonious one. For ten long years I have dreamt of this. Coutless conversations of dreaming to return to this great continent. Plans with close friends to come with. The noise of life getting in the way for too long, or maybe, just ... read more
Monkey
Nasca lines
Bird

South America » Peru » Ica » Nazca » Nazca Lines October 12th 2008

Today was a LONG day, filled with bus rides and lots and lots of waiting. Fortunately the ending was well worth the wait. We arrived at the Cruz del Sur bus station VERY early for our 7am trip and were able to board the bus shortly after arriving. The bus was SO nice! Definately more comfortable than any other bus, train, or airplane I've ever been on, which was especially nice since the trip was going to be almost 5 hours. The entertainment was a bit weak (old movies...Chasing Liberty and Bloodwork), but I spent most of the trip alternating between staring out at Arequipa and its neighboring towns and trying to nap (unsuccessfully), so it didn't matter. The bus stopped right in front of our hotel, the Las Dunas Resort in Ica, so we gathered ... read more
Arequipa
Arequipa
Arequipa

South America » Peru » Ica » Nazca » Nazca Lines October 10th 2008

Day 9 - Nazca to Arequipa - Friday 10th October 2008 Jo was up first but I managed to wake about 0700. We were told the previous night that breakfast started at 0800 and we would be picked up at 0900 to be taken to the airport for our flight over the Nazca Lines. I skipped a shower because the 24 hour hot water wasn’t working at this early hour and by 0830 we figured that breakfast wasn’t going to materialise either. Two blocks from the hostel we managed to get breakfast of a few meat sandwiches and I ordered a white coffee that came out as a glass of hot milk (we’ve since found out that the syrupy compound on our table was the coffee). We returned to Friend’s Place just before 0900 only to ... read more
Astronaut, Nazca Lines
Condor, Nazca Lines
Hummingbird, Nazca Lines

South America » Peru » Ica » Nazca » Nazca Lines October 7th 2008

Vi har naa startet med speed-turisme, og ting var godt tilrettelagt da vi ankom Nazca. Vi ble plukket opp paa bussterminalen kl 0530 om morgenen, og tatt med direkte til flyplassen. Saa skulle vi ut aa fly over de beroemte Nazca-linjene. Nazca-linjene er en samling paa over 300 geoglyfer som ligger i Nazcaoerkenen i Peru. Linjene, som strekker seg ut over et stort omraadet utenfor Nazca, danner mange slags moenstre, blant annet kolibri, oegle, edderkopp og ape. Selve motivene er gjerne flere hundre meter store. Disse linjene ble laget ved aa fjerne det oeverste tynne laget av smaasten slik at den lyse sanden under kom til syne. Man maa ha brukt matematiske hjelpemidler for aa faa det til saa noeyaktig. Linjene har siden holdt seg i saa mange aar fordi det aldri regner eller blaaser i ... read more
Pip-pip
Kolibri
Edderkopp

South America » Peru » Ica » Nazca » Nazca Lines September 30th 2008

For some strange reason, the ´Nascans´(long past) decided to spend their time scribing lines in the sand - lines representing animals, and just straight lines going back and forth. The harsh and windy desert environment - by good luck or good design, managed to preserve their efforts. Rather interestingly, from ground level, you can´t see much. So when the more recent, but equally unusual phenomenon of air travel came around, pilots noticed something a bit odd. Unfortunately, by this time, the new Panamerican Highway had just gone through, and a few desert joy riders had ripped in and done some damage also. But there was still a vast supply of perplexing patterns to keep some very bright minds thoroughly occupied for their careers trying to figure out what it all meant. So to get a take ... read more
Mummy
Landscape
Defiled grave site

South America » Peru » Ica » Nazca » Nazca Lines September 29th 2008

After riding on a bus about 3 hours we arrived in the afternoon in the small town of Nasca/Nazca. We got off the bus and found a cab to take us to the airport. We had already bought our tickets to fly over the Nasca lines so after waiting for about 2 hours and finding that we were the last people in the airport and the sun was about to set, we started pressuring the tour company and finally they called us out to the tarmac to board our tiny, four person plane. We met our captain who I got to sit in the front with and off into the air we went. After about 5 minutes in the plane, there was a terrible and deafening scratchy noise that came through our earphones. It kept going ... read more
the captain
walking to the plane
getting in the plane

South America » Peru » Ica » Nazca » Nazca Lines September 29th 2008

Gut ausgeschlafen wurde Botsch in der Frueh abgeholt und zum Flugzeug gebracht. (Ich konnte leider meine Flugangst nicht überwinden und bin dann nicht mitgefolgen.) Er flog aber ueber die Linien und kam begeistert wieder. Die Fotos sind auch wirklich schoen und es war sicher ein tolles Erlebniss. Am Nachmittag stand noch eine Stadtbesichtigung am Plan und dann ging es am Abend mit dem Bus wieder zuruek nach Lima. Nasca ist keine wirklich schoene Stadt, aber die Linien (kann man auch kurz vom Bus aus sehen (aber natuerlich weit nicht so gut) sind schon sehr beeindruckent. ... read more

South America » Peru » Ica » Nazca » Nazca Lines September 23rd 2008

A bus from Huacachina took us to the Ballestas islands (the por mans Galapagos) where we saw thousands (and thousands!) of birds, including Cormorants, Boobies, Pelicans and little Penguins, and loads of sea lions from our boat. The Guano (bird shit) is apparently a highly prized fertilizer, which is chipped off and exported every few years. We don´t envy the workers that job - the smell made our eyes water. We had our hats jammed tightly on our heads, though neither of us were christened on the trip. We then got another bus south to Nazca, where we flew over the desert in a tiny single engined Cessna and got a good view of the famous lines which were amazing! After the flight in Nazca we found a bar playing a bizarre medley of 1980s tunes/video ... read more
Birds
Penguins
Sea Lions

South America » Peru » Ica » Nazca » Nazca Lines August 31st 2008

Day 61: Friday 29th August - Strange Lines in the Nazca Desert I'm going to head to Nazca sometime today, but still unsure how to play it. Nazca is where they discovered strange lines in the desert 80 years ago, which the Nazca civilisation constructed between 300BC and 600AD. You need to take a flight over the desert to fully appreciate them. I had made enquiries earlier in the week to a couple of agencies and had been quoted $80US, but speaking to a Uruguayan in Lima put me off booking ahead as he only paid $60US. I know its high season so in the end decide to book ahead with an agency in Huacachina for $80US. My voucher is for a flight tomorrow at 8am but she rings the airfield for me and there may ... read more
9. 'The Spider' - Nazca Lines
11. 'The Condor' - Nazca Lines
2. 'The Whale' - Nazca Lines




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