Nasca, Peru Travel Blogs

Why did they do it?
Sep 3, 2008 (19 photos)

Why did the Nasca people do the large drawings on the floor of the dessert? We will never know for sure, so pick your teory: to mark underground water, to use as a start chart, for religious purpouses, to greet the gods, to greet ET... goes on and on ...

Astronauts and monkeys together again.
Aug 5, 2006 (2 photos)

... people on my original plane got airsick during the flight. I´m thinking the smells of vomit would seriously detract from the Nasca experience. Anyhow it was great!!! We veered left and right over the geoglyphs, as the pilot allowed both sides of the ...

Nasca Lines
Dec 19, 2005 (3 photos)

Nasca entry to follow.... few photos to start with!

The heart of the Nascan Empire
May 21, 2008 (31 photos)

The heart of the Nascan Empire

The art of flying high without throwing up..
Jun 17, 2005 (16 photos)

... bar staff. Tempting, very tempting! But time to get moving, so armed with optimism and toilet paper I boarded the nightbus to Nasca. Must admit I was a tad worried when the bus hostess announced that the onboard toilet was only for 'Number Ones' but 14 ...

Nasca Map Pin plus Photos
Feb 7, 2006 (7 photos)

Photos attached!

Drawing the water from the sky
Oct 23, 2007 (14 photos)

... in procession to ask for water.  The lines become larger and more desperate during the big period of drought.  Then the Nasca culture disappears. We ended up leaving at around 9:30.  There were five of us plus the pilot and we had a ...

God is on the ground and from the air
May 21, 2008 (34 photos)

God is on the ground and from the air

Flying over ancient wonders
May 4, 2004 (5 photos)

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Giant drawings in the sand
Dec 5, 2008 (8 photos)

I thought a visit to the mysterious Nasca lines would gives us a better idea of what these strange shapes in the middle of the Peruvian desert actually meant and why they were put there. This was not to be the case as it appears no one actually really ...

Aliens did it......
Jun 27, 2004 (5 photos)

... I got my money`s worth. The flight was followed by a boring video by a guy who was basically poncing about interviewing Nasca Lines fanatics and sketching different conclusions about why the Nasca people did the lines and how they made them. The most ...

Hairy Mummies, Flying-High Shamans and Much More
Feb 12, 2006 (10 photos)

... some well deserved sun rays. That night we cooked a campfire BBQ and slept on the shores of the beach. Next stop was Nasca but before then we made a slight detour to the Chauchilla cemetery. There are hundreds of cemeteries in the area with many well ...

The Nasca Lines, Sand and Huachachina Oasis
Jun 6, 2006 (31 photos)

... German mathematician and archaeologist came to study the lines and never left. Our 40 minute flight takes us over the dunes to Nasca. The co-pilot is pointing out the position of the trapezoids, astronaut, monkey, condor, Hands, tree, spider, humming ...

Gabbi´s birthday
Jun 18, 2005 (8 photos)

We returned Saturday evening to celebrate another birthday, one of the American´s this time - Gabbi. I ran around town and was able to find a birthday cake and a beer piñata which i filled with her favorite candy and cigarettes. I snuck it all in the ...

Nazca Lines
Sep 19, 2009 (24 photos)

... perfectly again.  We rode all day, putting about 250 miles behind us and ended up at the Nazca Lines outside Nazca Peru.  The ride there was pretty much desert desert and more desert with a few towns in between but nothing spectacular to write ...

The sand
Nov 11, 2007 (7 photos)

... of Nasca. Toby is a nice Peruvian man who lives off some rusty stuff he finds on a nearby cemetery: he does it up and makes the tourists buy it as the original pottery of the ancient Nasca society. I sit there for a while and get back to the hotel.

The pride of not being sick
Sep 16, 2007

Clean again! What a relief to have had a night in a bed (joy) and a hot shower (double joy) and not share it all with 25 others (shame!!) We left Pisco yesterday after saying our goodbyes to everyone. To our relief, 4 other people also left so we ...

Pisco and Nazca
Jun 9, 2009

About 3 years ago, Pisco was pretty much floored by an earthquke, so there isn´t much to do there. The shells of the buildings still stand, but there is no longer much to do. Some of the guys went on a boat trip to see sea lions and a few other things. I ...

Mysterious forms in the desert
Apr 29, 2008 (5 photos)

Nazca Feeling the pressure of time now, we had arranged a bus for the night that we got in from the Canyon. It wasn't going, but they could take us to one that was. So why did they sell us a ticket? I can only speculate, but I ...

Huacachina and Nasca
Aug 7, 2005 (2 photos)

... , but we got a few fun rides. When you fall, you definitely eat a lot of sand! In the evening we took a bus to Nasca. We arrived there around 9 pm and went to our hotel. It was nicer than the last one, which was a welcome change, especially since we ...

Something spooky in the desert
Jun 24, 2008 (2 photos)

Left Pisco and took a bus to Ica which only took an hour (the shortest bus trip we´ve had so far)! At Ica we were ferried into this amazing place called Huacachina Oasis which is literally an oasis in the middle of the desert. Here we sat down to a hearty ...

Nazca Lines and the Dead People at Chauchilla
Oct 21, 2009

After looking at the prices for the night buses to Nazca, and there only being a difference of 10s each to go on the posh Cruz del Sur instead of a local bus... we wnt for it (to see if all the hype is worth it) sometimes it can be double the price...! ...

Nazca
Oct 27, 2008 (2 photos)

... wurde uns ein Anbieter vom Cruz del Sur empfohlen. Zu dem gehen wir dann auch. Da wir kein Interesse haben, die Nasca Linien zu ueberfliegen, (was wahrscheinlich viel beeindruckender, aber auch viieeel teurer ist) buchen wir nur eine kurze Tour zu einem ...

Flying over the Nazca lines!
Sep 29, 2009 (5 photos)

After much debate as to whether we take the flight over the Nazca lines, hearing various stories of people throwing up and the small planes doing figure eights in the sky, we decided to suck it up and go ahead and do it.  After all there is ...

Nasca and them lines
Mar 18, 2008 (16 photos)

... a long time at a little organic restaurant that did a cracking lasagne. The rest of the day was spent wandering around Nasca trying to find anything interesting about the town. The townspeople themselves have really taken the lines to heart - not just ...

Lines
Nov 13, 2009 (20 photos)

... the dusty streets of Lima at 7:00 AM. Time was against us so we were soon on yet another one, continuing south to Nasca. The landscape rolling past the window was wholly unlike that of the high sierra of Ecuador. No snow-capped volcanoes here, but desert ...

Chauchilla cemetery
Jul 3, 2005 (9 photos)

We had plans to fly the lines this weekend, but there was a haze that persisted so we decided to hold off until a clearer day. We were able to go visit a cool prehistoric cemetery outside of town called Chauchilla. It is from the Inca-Chica culture and ...

ET's lay-by
Jun 29, 2009 (1 photos)

... , there is blue in the sky (Lima was permanently covered in a drizzly tupperware cloud) and its a lot drier. Approaching Nasca, the vegetation starts to disappear and there are sand dunes everywhere. And then you're in serious desert. And it extends for ...

Nazca - eine Stadt mit Linien
Jun 24, 2008 (10 photos)

hei Mir si hue in Nasca! Villech heitr scho mau oeppis ghoert vo de Nascalinie? Di si hue umenang!  Geschter hei mr in Pisco uebernachtet - e Stadt wo vom ene riise Erdbebe ( 8.2) vo letscht jahr zimlech zerstoert isch! trotzdaem isch ueses ...

Voglio un letto!!!
Feb 17, 2008 (5 photos)

... . Lui e' in giro da fine Novembre, e' partito dalla terra del fuoco e e' risalito su per il Cile e poi per il Peru' fino a Nasca, da qui sarebbe andato a Cuzco, poi Lima passando per Macchu picchu e quindi ritorno a casa. Ma allora io ...