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Nasca Slideshow
Nasca
Travel Blogs from Nasca, Peru
The Nazca Lines
After at least 3 bottles of rum and less than one hours sleep we left Huacachina for the city of Nazca to see the famous Nazca lines. It was a tough, tough day. No more than five minutes into the bus journey, Bec was sick. When we arrived in Nazca we ...
Nasca Lines from the air
We arrived into Nazca at about 8pm, the scenery between Lima and Nazca was really interesting. It was desolate mountain faces which went right up to the shore of the Pacific Ocean. The next morning we took a 30 minute scenic flight over ...
scary flight over the desert
Joe says: Got the famous flight over the Nasca lines, for those of u that dont kno what thay are there a series of drawings on the desert floor which range in size from 80m to 3500m. the reason they are so famous is that to this day is that experts still ...
Nazca Lines
We flew from Arequipa to Lima and then took a Luxury double decker bus down the coast to Nazca. We had the seats in the front of the top level so the view was amazing. The coast is pretty much dessert with giant sand dunes and crashing ...
I See The Line In The Sand
... the spaceman (not definitely a spaceman, but the figure of a man with a strangely shaped head). The morning after arriving in Nasca our tour group split into smaller groups and were shuttled to the airport to do our scenic flights of the lines. ...
Real life MUMMIES!
... !! It was an honour for one of these pre inca families to be asked to give their baby for sacrifice! Bone chilling... ewww... A Nasca city, Chauchilla, thats in the process of being repaired. The Incas took over and you can see the difference in the ...
Cruising the desert in Nazca
... imagined South America to be! Our hostel was nice, we were sharing our dorm with two other British girls who were travelling around Peru for a few weeks. We went sandboarding here in the dunes and it was awesome! First of all we tried it sort of ctouched ...
Nasca Lines
Got up mega early for the day trip to Nazca. I got straight onto a flight, where as Steve had to wait because of his weight J As soon as the Cessna took off I proceeded to throw up throughout the entire 35 minute flight, although I managed to get a ...
lines
... on the barren desert far below us outside the window our faces were pressed against. The Nazca lines in the desert of peru were created several thousand years ago by the Nazca indians long before the Incas came on the show. Looking like some child ...
Held hostage in mango heaven
... her death in 1998. They were only noticed in 1939 but they still put the PanAmerica Sur (main highway down the coast of Peru) slap through the middle of the lizard´s tail. Then Nazca got fun. We heard the local miners were starting a ...
Nazca
A bit of bus (riding along the desertic Pacific coast) and we get to Nazca at night. Just off the bus, we stepped in a nice hostel. We had the chance to fly over these famous Nazca lines. Definitly impressive to see how precise and accurate are ...
Flight over the Nazca lines
06/12/2008 (SAT) I arrived at about 7.30am and was immediately haunted by touts offering me cheap accomodation and flights over the Nazca lines. I went to the airport with one of the touts who offered me US$60 for a 35mins flights over the ...
En route pour Nazca
Direction la ville de Nazca (encore en bus on va en baver surtout les genoux et les narines). Notre chambre était déjà réservée mais un petit filou nous emmène à un autre hôtel prétextant que l'autre est complet. Bien sûr que ce ...
Nasca et ses fameuses lignes
... restés dans les airs un peu plus longtemps. On se sent vraiment petit lorsqu’on voit ces gigantesques formes de là-haut. Quant à la ville de Nasca, elle n’a rien de particulier à offrir alors, une journée y était amplement ...
Nasca
... it their home for the night as well. Lucky we’ve hadnaz plenty of training in sleeping through various noises. 03/06/11 Nasca Because we didn’t have far to drive today, we were given a lazy morning to relax by the water. Things got ...
bezoek aan Lineas de Nazca
Om 6 uur ging de wekker. Vlug wassen, en dan Juan wekken (ik wist niet meer in welke kamer hij sliep, ... met als gevolg dat ik op de verkeerde deur aan het kloppen was). Om 7 uur staat het busje klaar om ons naar het vliegveld te brengen. Ik heb al ...
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 ...
Nazca Lines, Peru
Wow! Today has been an amazing day! Rachel and I were rushed out of our hotel room in Nazca,Peru and shuttled to Air Moche for our 35 minute flight over the Nazca Lines. We swirled around the famous Nazca lines in a small 6-seater cessna plane. From ...
Nazca lines
Nazca a town famous for strange lines in the desert made by local Indians for who knows what reason. We arrived after the night bus and spent the afternoon relaxing in the pool at the hotel as it was pretty hot. That afternoon we had the option of flying ...
Paa afveje
... af sandet.. Den varme skisport! Vi kunne nu godt havde brugt en skilift ogsaa. Det var haardt! Nu er vi i gloende varme Nasca, vi ankom i gaar eftermiddags kl 4, og kl 5 havde vi bestilt en flyvetur. Effektivt! Saa i morges var vi oppe og ...
Nazca
... happen upon the street where there are 20 different shops selling the same teddy bears in the same way. The chocolate ´scene´ in Peru, like Equador, is dominated by Nestle. This gives you a choice of the same three chocolate bars in every shop. ...
Nasca et ses fameuses lignes !
... 's de faire penché rapidement l'avion de droite à gauche ce qui donne un peu la nausée. Je souhaitais visiter d'autre chose à Nasca cependant tous est payant et nécessite un billet individuel à hauteur de 10 soles. J'abandonne donc l'idée et pars ...
26 hours of buses
... bit too many horses for me. But really, not a bad experience. In Lima, we joined up with our tour group that we´ll be seeing Peru with. It´s nice to have a tour because they take care of all the hassles for you - they book your hotel, book your bus, ...
Finally, some photos!
Finally, I´ve posted some photos and videos! I´m in Nazca right now, relaxing before taking another 9 hour white knuckle overnight bus ride. I have been trying to keep up with a journal, but finding that blogging is going to turn out to be a bit of a ...
History before Health
... add that a lot of people would tell you this advice is simply common sense...WELL I DIDN'T BLOODY KNOW DID I?! We rock up to Nasca and i ruin our tour leaders plans again by finding a cheaper airline to fly with, saving a good 20US per person. This is ...
Mysterious lines and mummies galore
Before we arrived in Nazca for the evening we stopped alongside the Pacific Highway to climb a tower and view some of the mysterious Nazca lines. Unfortunately the Peruvians didn't realise the importance of the Nazca lines and built the highway ...
Eram os deuses astronautas?
Continuo sem saber se deuses são astronautas, mas a resposta que obtive é sobre o povo Nazca, uma civilização pré-Inca que viveu no Perú entre 200AC e 600AD. Se não eram astronautas, eram matemáticos, astrônomos e engenheiros. Realmente as ...