Blogs from Nazca Lines, Nazca, Ica, Peru, South America - page 8

When we got off the bus in Nazca we happened to be met by the owner of the hostel that we had in mind to stay at and went there with him. We had planned to shop around for flights over the desert to see the lines, but he tried to convince us to take a flight straight away, as he said it's high season and it will be difficult to get one at a reasonable price. The price he offered was a lot more than we had anticipated, so we were quite reluctant, but agreed to be taken to the airport where we ourselves could ask around about prices. Unfortunately it was that expensive and it just so happened that there was an available flight that afternoon and we decided to go for it. What ... read more

Day 304 - Wednesday 30 July Russ had told me to expect to be dropped of at the bus station and have tonnes of people try and sell me a room. I should therefore be able to pick up a cheap one. However my bus company dropped me off at their offices on the outskirts of town and no one was there to greet me. Instead I had to set about walking into town. En route someone did stop and offer me a room at a reasonable rate. However the flyer they gave me turned out not to be their hotel. Still its a very nice room at a good price. Thats when the hard sell came, I was expecting it but they weren't half agressive and oh what a surprise my room was being made ... read more

Blogger Dougo Today we awoke in our hotel in Nazca early to be ready for the transfer to the airport to view the Nazca lines. Unfortunately, we walked out our hotel room to be greated by a thick blanket of fog covering the town (and surrounding area). So we waited. We played cards, taught a few of our group members our new found passion, Shithead. We waited. The bloody fog hung around until 12 noon when it cleared to be an absolutely perfect blue sky day. At 12:30pm we finally got our bus transfer to the small, light plane airport about 15 minutes from our hotel. We were orginally booked in to fly at 10am. Only three planes can be in the air at one time. Each plane carries a maximum of 5 people. Each ... read more

Nazca is famous for one thing.. the Nazca Lines. These are strange lines that have been etched into the ground and were thought to be an astrological calender but there is still no real explaination of what they are for. Whilst in Nazca though Dale has found out that it should actually be more famous for another thing.. Cerro Blanco.. the worlds highest sand dune (or South America´s depending on what guide you read!) We´d decided against the traditional flight over the lines because we had seen many photos and blogs which said you could not really see them very well and this, combined with the thought of going in a propellor plane with pilots who had fantasies of being in the red devils and who´s main aim was to try their hardest to make you ... read more

This morning I woke up feeling much, much better and ready to see the Nazca lines. I was in a small group with a Columbian fellow and a guy from Switzerland. Very nice guys. We were picked up at 9am and taken to a teeny tiny airport where we watched a film about the Nazca lines and basically waited for a couple hours for some fog to clear. At 12pm we were able to board our little cesna airplane and take off to view the lines. The lines were carved into the dessert floor by the Nazca people in approx. 500 A.D. There are many theories as to why and how they were carved, but the reality is that no one really knows. The locals of the area had always noticed these lines in the desert, ... read more