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Nasca Slideshow
Nasca
Travel Blogs from Nasca, Peru
A Whale in the Middle of the Desert?
... aliens really visit our planet hundreds of years ago? Well those are just a few of the questions frequently asked here in Nazca, Peru because of the over 800 lines, 300 figures and 70 animals and plants (up to 150 meters long and only fully appreciate ...
Michael "motion sickness" Kelly.
The Nazca lines are an archeological feat that until we landed in South America we had never really heard of. The story goes that around 3000 years ago the Nazca people constructed these lines in the desert by moving large stones into shapes on the ...
Colca - Nasca
... two hostels I was interested in (having done an hour's research on internet forums the previous night) I jogged straight to the Nasca Planetarium, bought a ticket for that evening's Nasca Lines presentation with 15 mins to spare, trotted outside, got some ...
Nazca Lines look loopy
Today we took a visit to a local pottery shop where they demonstrated the Nazca techniques for making clay pots. Danielle was impressed that the lady made a pot better than her school children. She wasn´t convinced about the use of nose ...
Chauchilla cemetery
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
... . Suddenly, 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 ...
Nazca - eine Stadt mit Linien
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 ...
Crazy lines and mummies in Nasca!
... last night we tried out the local brew (pisco) which made this morning a bit of a struggle! This morning we caught the bus to Nasca and did a flight over the lines. The lines are a big mystery, no one knows really who created them or why. They were only ...
Flying over the Nazca Lines
The Nazca Lines are located in the arid Peruvian coastal plain, some 400 km south of Lima and were scratched on the surface of the ground between 500 BC and 500 AD. The geoglyphs - which depict living creatures, stylized plants and ...
Voglio un letto!!!
... . 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 ...
Geheimnisvolle Zeichnungen
... eine astrologische Bedeutung haben. Die Linien zu überfliegen war uns ein bisschen zu teuer, deshalb verbrachten wir nur wenig Zeit in Nasca und schauten uns zwei der x hundert Figuren von einem Mirador (Aussichtsturm) an, was wohl leider nicht so ...
Nasca
Just a flying stop in this remote desert town. We didn't stay over night but caught a later bus to Cusco which gave us a few hours to check out Nasca. The town was quaint, built on tourism but relaxed and hassle ...
Flying high in Nazca
We left Huacachina on the morning of the 7 th and boarded the Peru Bus for Nazca. The attraction for Nazca are the Nazca lines that are geoglyphs in the desert that are over 2000 years old. The lines were built by the Paracas and depict a collection ...
Flying, in more ways than one!
The main 'draw' of Nazca are the 'Nazca Lines', a mysterious set of drawings, shapes and lines in the sand which were created by the Nazca civilisation around 2,000 years ago. Researchers believe that they had some water ritual/source meaning, ...
Feb 23, 2011
Some amazing lines and ALOT of sand...
... desert, with Eduardo racing along at 80kph (it got up to 100kph when going flying down the dunes!) First we went to a Nasca temple called Cahuachi where they used to do human sacrifices of women, children and animals to the gods. Then we went ...
Doing lines in Nasca.....
... , you would have found me in a plane the size of a sardine can (6 seater Cesna), being thrown about as I observed the Nasca Lines... There was an astronaut, a spider, a monkey, a whale, and countless other mystical shapes... Separating the 4x4 ...
Nazca i groblje Chauchilla
Vozač jutros ponovo točan. Općenito, gdje god smo do sada naručili neki izlet, prijevoz ili uslugu, sve je islo apsolutno "po spagici" i točno u minutu. Sve je dostupno u samom hostelu - samo treba zamoliti, ljudi u hostelima ...
Nazca
... hopefully bought them water. If you want some information check out this website, i think its quite good. http://www.crystalinks.com/nasca.html We arrived at around 5 o'clock in the morning, said hello to Stuart and Evely, the legends with the photos ...
Die mysterioesen Nascalinien- Vogelperspektive
... sie von der Erde aus gar nicht betrachten kann, da sie viel zu gross sind. Bis heute ist es erstaunlich, wie die Nasca- Bewohner damals diese Furchen geometrisch exakt ziehen konnten, ohne sie je von oben gesehen zu haben. Ueber den Sinn der Linien wird ...
Another check off my list: The Nazca Lines
... to their preciseness. Obviously there are many wacky theories about them, but the accepted story is that they were created by the Nasca culture in approximately 400 CE. It really is quite amazing to see these massive drawings (some over 100m in length) ...
Maintenance day in Nasca
Today we spent the day at a wonderful hotel in Nasca here in Peru. The weather here has been boiling since we arrived and due to this all we have done is drink water, coke and for many of them beer. We used the day to service the bikes and so spent the ...
Nazca - Day 32
... most people are keen to get there at a reasonable time. After a petrol stop we all got going at 8am. Really gorgeous views of Peru again today. It is incredibly hilly so the roads cork screw up and down them, really pretty. At one point we were up in the ...
Maybe that juice was a bad idea...
... intrigued and so, following breakfast (of which more later), we were taken by our frighteningly enthusiastic local guide, Susie, to Nasca airport. Once there, Richard, Jane, John, Graham and I were chased at high speed from the bus by Susie into a ...
Station 8: Die Wueste
Weiter gings von der Millionenstadt Arequipa ins kleine verschlafene Nazca. Eigentlich nur beruehmt aufgrund der mysterioesen NazcaLines (wer sie nicht kennt: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca-Linien ), bestenfalls natuerlich mit dem Flieger ...
The Nazca Lines: Aliens, Shamans or Nazcans?
Hola! Today we left Paracas and headed for Nazca further south. It was only a 4 hour bus ride on a comfortable bus. Again, the scenery was all desert with the sea not too far. This bus company is so comfortable that we even watched Pirates of ...
Ninja's in Nazca
We awoke to a crap breakfast of just eggs! really not appropriate for poor Han who experienced a bad grape or should i say 20. Tip No. 1... When they say dont buy fruit from the stall on the side of the road... DONT!!! Although i must say ...
Sandboarding in the Desert!
After getting back from the Ballestas Islands, we hopped on a bus to a dsert oasis town ( I forgot the name of it) On the drive there all you could see was sand dunes and the occasional little house sitting in the middle of the desert. There wasn´t any ...