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Published: September 10th 2007
Nazca
And I thought Alton Towers was scary!Hi gang
We have had a day of fun today.
We are now in Nazca, home of the famous Nazca lines. (if you have not heard of them you should watch the discovery channel more, its not just sharks and volcanoes)
This are a massive series of designs made in the desert by Inca Indians between 200bc and 600ad (I think)
there are animals and plants and strange geometric patterns and loads of lines, some straight some zig-zags and circles and spirals.
They are mysterious as they can only be seen properly from the are so the people who made them all those thousands of years ago could never see them (I think they were prone to air sickness)
But how did we see them I hear you ask
well I and Jo (with minimal arm twisting) went up in a light air craft (Cessna, possibly a 205).
I got to sit in the co-pilot seat!
The flight was great fun with the pilot turning us all over the place so we could see the shapes in the sand below.
After this we went to a pre-inca cemetry where the bodies had
Nazca
Co-pilot Dyson become mumified from being left out in the dry desert air where bacteria can't survive, it was very earrie seeing them just sat there as they had been for hundreds of years.
Come back in a few days when we have added all the photos, they are tre impresive (we are surviving on basic computers at the mo)
see you later
Trev and Jo
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JoBrown
Jo Brown and Trevor Dyson
Pisco
The transport situation is fine. Buses stop at 'el cruce' on the Pan American and then you take a taxi to Pisco. As for hostels in Pisco, I doubt it very much. The town was 80% destroyed. Did you see our blog about volunteering there? The pictures will show you the extent of the devastation. Things change however, and there may well be somewhere open. A good contact would be Stefanie at Hands On Disaster Response (www.hodr.org), the organisation we volunteered with. She may know of any local accommodation open again. I suspect you will have to stay in Ica and take a day trip. There are local fishermen who may take you to the islands, Hands On managed to arrange a tour for the volunteers so it is possible. Good luck