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Traveler Rating
182 reviews 669 travel blogs 1164 photos Attraction Type:
Ancient ruins, Historic site, Mysterious site
TravelPod Member ReviewsNasca Lines
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Must be seen from the skies
260574 0 contribution Brazil May 24, 2012
A bit hard to see at the beginning. When you get used to the marks, spotting them becomes easier. I did it with Aeroparacas (USD90 including trasnfer to airport). They only have small planes, so everyone has they own windows.
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From the Ground
smitherson 25 contributions United Kingdom Mar 13, 2012
We heard tell that a strong stomach was required forthe flight over the Nasca Lines, so we decided to go alternative and take the ground tour arranged by our hostel.
Maybe not so impressive, but with two viewing platforms, one for pre-Nasca drawings on a hill side and the second to see the frog and the tree we saw enough. The other benefit was our knowledgeable driver took use to the Maria Reiche Museum. Marie re-discovered the Nasca Lines in the mid-20th century, mapped and cleared them of debris, so we can all joined them today.This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
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if your afraid of heights, dont!
cassieweller 22 contributions Newcastle, Australia Feb 21, 2012
It was really scary being in the plane, I had to hold a bag over my mouth making it hard to take pictures. It was cool to see the Lines from this angle, but very expensive, I would have been happy seeing the Los Manos and tree from the viewpoint.
This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Nasca Lines
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Cessna adventures
Once we were on the bus we were happy out to be finally out of Cusco, after about two weeks, our longest stop since we got to South America. It was also a big hit to the wallet, there is somehow a constant drip because it was such a tourist trap. We were getting too used to long stops too so I took over the planning for the next while. But when I …
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Real life MUMMIES!
NOT THE SMARTEST THING TO DO THE DAY AFTER A PISCO SOUR BODEGA TOUR
haha, yuk, I now have to get a cab to ICA, then a 2.5 hour bus to NASCA, then get picked up by some guy called Mikey, who will take me to his hostel... Then another cab comes and takes me to the airodrome... I am being picked up and dropped off all over town and I am … -
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Flying over the Nasca Lines
Introduction for those not familiar with the Nasca lines: they are giant drawings (the size of football fields) in the desert, so large that they can only be appreciated from a plane or helicopter. There are many theories and speculations as to how and why the ancient Nasca people built these perfect shapes 2,000 years ago. Noone knows for sure …
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Les Incas vus du ciel!
Je décide de continuer vers le sud en direction d'Arequipa mais malheureusement, au moment de réserver mon billet de bus, on m'annonce que la route est bloquée par des manifestants, m'obligeant à rester sur place encore quelques jours en attentant que la situation se soit calmée ou bien partir directement pour Cuzco. Comme je n'ai pas beaucoup de …
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Ceviche + nazca flight = don´t do it
We took an overnight bus from Cuzco to Nazca to see the famous Nazca lines (i don´t know if they´re THAT famous... I hadn´t heard of them until I was in Cuzco trying to decide where to go next). If you aren´t aware of them, they´re mysterious drawings in the middle of the desert that are said to have been done in the Inca era but no one knows what …
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To fly or not to fly
To be honest Nasca was not on my priority list of places to visit in Peru. But then a visit fitted into my itinerary, so here I am in Nasca. Of course the main tourist attraction of Nasca are the Nasca Lines. In 1939 the American Paul Kosok discovered the lines. A routine ancient irrigation research flight across the barren region unearthed the …
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Nasca
Donderdagochtend 27 oktober werden we opgehaald aan onze hostal om de Nazca-lijnen te gaan bewonderen. Dit zijn een soort graancirkels avant la lettre (2000 jaar geleden), toen het nog redelijk moeilijk was om die vanuit de lucht op te merken...Een busje bracht ons naar het vliegveld van Nazca. Na het vervolledigen van wat administratie, en een …
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The Nasca Lines
Day 3 started with a light breakfast at the recommendation of our tour guide and then a short drive out to the airport we would be flying from. We were bundled with 3 Americans and after paying the airport tax (S/ 12.50) we were walked over to the small 6 seater Cessna plane we would be flown over the lines in.
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Nasca lines and human sacrifice
Nasca was a very interesting – not much is known about the civilisation
that built the Nazca lines as they died out about 2000 years ago. So there is
lots of mystery and theory about why they were built – but nothing is known for
certain. They have started excavating some temples that they found buried in the
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Seeing lines in the sand
After Cusco we were ready to be out of altitude. So, to Nazca we went. It is supposed to be hot and dry all year round, an oasis in a desert. It was definitely a desert, but while we were there it was overcast quite a bit of the time and never got that hot.
Our first full day there we decided to learn a bit about the Nazca culture before …
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The Nauseating flight over Nazca
... line in person must be one of the most amazing experience in my life. The theory behind the purpose of these lines are multiple and hypothetical. They run from ancestral ceremonial sites to sacrificial site to space alien landing site. ...
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Lines in the Peruvian desert
... buy our tickets to Cuzco and people just kept trying to sell us things we didn´t want! We decided that flying over the lines was too expensive ($40 each for 30mins), especially after our trip to the Galapagos, so just wanted to go to the viewing tower ...
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The effect of Drugs
... explanation, but finally take off, with three other passengers, in the small plane. We then proceed to see the Nasca lines - these are lines, depicting various shapes, drawn by a pre Inka civilisation, in the desert, on a large scale - the video we ...
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Astronauts and monkeys together again.
After today, I can now check off one more thing I had on my list of "things to do before I die" list. Fly over the Nasca Lines! We woke up early and decided to take a morning flight in case it was too cloudy in the afternoon. It´s definitely nice ...
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Aliens from outer space
One of the theories put forward for the mysterious lines in the desert near the city of Nazca, in Peru, is that they are beacons and landing strips for alien space craft. Theories like this certainly whet my appetite to see the famous Nazca lines, but I ...
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poor mans g and nazca lines
... animals would pose for photographs and it was clear they had no fear of people being extremely close. Nazca and the lines The next morning we bused it south again to the desert town of Nazca. The next morning we took a ...
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Doing some lines.... The Nazca Lines that is !!!
... mysterious shapes etched into the sun-baked desert floor near Nazca. What they were seeing were not only geometric forms and parallel lines but many different designs and drawings such as a monkey, tree, hands, condor, astronaut, whale, and many others. ...
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Nazca - Day 101-102
... de Armas is the focal point and centre of town, so I headed there first to enquire about flights over the mysterious Nazca lines. The landscape around Nazca is very similar to Death Valley in California, with moon like peaks and flat lifeless valley's. A ...
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Wind on my face, Sun in my Eyes ´n Sand in my Ears
... last update, but its been a BIG week, what with an epic 4 day Andes trek, sand boarding, dune buggies, and the famous Nazca Lines! Last I left off I guess I was sick and about to try to drag myself 4 days through the mountains... First a few random South ...
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The art of flying high without throwing up..
... the first drawing, the whale. I get slightly overexcited (me? never..) PLEASE PINCH ME! I AM FLYING (SORRY, CO-PILOTING) OVER THE NASCA LINES !!!! The pilot does a loop so we get to see the whale properly from all directions. Very kind of him. He does ...
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