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Nasca Slideshow
Nasca
Travel Blogs from Nasca, Peru
Lines and lines for miles and miles!
Thursday 30th April - Friday 1st May Nazca - a place I'd missed on my initial trip to South America and regretted; mainly due to the mystery surrounding the lines, which in their own right had become a tourist attraction. To put it into perspective, ...
Nasca
... not believe there were taxis waiting. I told them i wasn´t interested (it wasn´t far) and got directed by the bus man to the wrong hotel. Oh well i got my own room with bathroom so that was ok. Took a flight over the Nasca lines which was really ...
Nasca Lying
... in the $11-14 E category. Everyone knows that E´s are not good. Let alone Ebeneezer Goode. For the uninitiated, the Nasca Lines are huge, primitive pictures of various animals carved into the desert floor. We opted again to be cheap, and decided to ...
Week 3 of excavations and Uchuchuma
... , lifeless land. Across the valley where the land slopes up again, there is a small site called Uchuchuma that dates to Early Nasca (around AD 1). It consists of a few plazas, domestic structures, tombs, and farming terraces. It was on a much smaller ...
last day of excavations
Today was the last day of excavations for me. (The rest will continue to excavate for another two weeks, but I have to cut it short so I will have time to analyze all my material before we have to turn it over to the Peruvian Institute of Culture.) So on ...
Peru, Nasca Lines
Sun 31.8.08: Peru, Nasca Lines PERSONAL: The lines has been amazingly preserved. Marveling and scratching the head over the purpose of these mysterious lines. Attractions: Nasca Lines Archaeological cemeteries within areas of Nasca ...
Ica to Nasca
... tablets, but I`m a MAN!... I don´t need things like that!! Well, it turned out I did. A little explanation of the Nasca Lines: "The Nazca Lines are a series of geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches 53 miles or ...
Completion of Proyecto La Tiza 2005
... material is indeed Formative (early like I was hoping), and some is late Paracas which is another culture which immigrated into the Nasca area. All good news in terms of my research question. It looks like Sector I shows a blend of foreign craft being ...
Did the Aliens land here???
The mysterious Nasca lines are spread over 500sq km of rock plains. 800liñes, 300 figures and 70 animals. THe figures and lines were made by removing the dark rocks to create a picture or line. Some think the pictures were created by the Incas who ...
Pisco - Paracas - Ica - Nazca
... v njihovi znani cokoladnici. Voznik naju je peljal tudi do piscoteke, kjer sva si ogledala celoten postopek pridelave te za Peru tipicne pijace. Sledila je tudi degustacija sladkih vin, pisca, likerjev in raznih marmelad, ki jih pridelujejo tam. Zgodaj ...
weekend fun
The weekend finally rolled around and we had lots to celebrate. We managed a week of excavations without anyone impaling themselves on the perilous rocks...and it was Isabel´s birthday. So we had an extravagent dinner at the best place in town (which ...
line in the sand
I got some wires crossed somewhere with talking to Geert. I had been at his place, had a short jam with me on bass and him on drums. We had looked over the maps and discussed some options, where we could meet and he gave me directions to a hotel in ...
Canyons of dust. Desert of mystery.
... event! Yikes! No worries though, my paper journal has been recording all the details so nothing has been lost. Now back to Peru and leaving Cuzco for Nazca and it's mysterious desert lines. As the adventure continued, I found myself back on the road ...
Lines in the sand
... and skulls scattered across the sand virtually everywhere, large pieces of hand-woven cloth, even fragments of ancient Nasca pottery, all sitting and waiting to be studied by archaeologists. Admittedly, just as cool was when we stopped ...
The Nasca Lines
... me... really wanted to be fit and healthy for today as it´s one of the major highlights of our tour, a flight over the Nasca Lines. After a small breakfast, which was recommended by the tour guide!!! We head off to Nasca airport and see our plane for ...
Discovering the Nasca Lines
... and we had good seats, so we both managed to sleep ok... but was still awake at 5am when it got light, knowing we would hit Nasca around 6.30am. We had paid a bit extra for someone to meet us at the bus station and go back to their hostel while they ...
Pass the sick bag
Back from the desert and a shower to wash the sand out of everywhere! Still had sand in my ears days later. We set off for Nazca, location of the Nazca lines, a collection of lines and pictures in the ground visible only from the air. There is ...
sehr mysterioes!
... ein typ auf, dem tatsaechlich die unterkunft gehoert, in die wir wollen. er faehrt uns dorthin und bietet uns einen flug ueber die nasca-lines an. wir lehnen ab, weil uns der preis zu hoch ist. wir handeln mit ihm und bekommen einen 100 dollar flug fuer ...
From Lima to Pisco, to Ica and Nasca
... ' bien retournee léstomac mais quést ce que cétait fun!!!... Nous prenons apres une veille voiture americaine pour Nasca.. notre conducteur mche de la coca en roulant.. les vues sont incroyables.. jén prend plein les yeux... les deserts infinis ...
´Land of suffering´ and our last days of the trip!
... on a tour to the Cauchilla cemetery just out of town. The cemetery was from the Nazca culture, who lived in this arid part of Peru about 2000 years ago and are supposedly unique in history for being the only culture to mummify not just the rich like the ...
Pisco & Nazca lines
I´ve had a busy few days since leaving Lima. The first stop was a boat trip out to the Ballestas islands a few miles off the coast. The islands are famous for the sea life including sea lions, penguins, Peruvian boobies and many other birds. The ...
It was a Friday
My last few days in Lima were pretty uneventful, as I had caught something (I think it something I ate from a street vendor), but I did check out Larcomar, a huge open-air mall built into the side of a cliff overlooking the ocean. Also, I got to pet an ...
Nazca Lines Drive By
Early morning decisions on birthday, we decide to skip the light plane flight over Nazca lines and do a drive by on the Panamerican Sur. Definitely not the true picture you see from the sky but a feeling of visiting as the highway bisects the world ...
Nasca, Peru
Another 7 hour bus journey, this time from Lima to Nazca. However, the bus company (Cruz del Sur) that we went with were fantastic... twas like flying in an airplane. They served us food... hot food at that... and they actually played some good ...
Io non ho paura
... sono davero simpatico", a me piace pensare che gli sono davvero simpatico, sono priprio un inguaribile romantico! Il viaggio a Nasca e' tranquillo, stavolta niente sbagli, niente deserto, arrivo a Nasca come da programma e alla stazione trovo Luis, un ...
Arequipa to NAzca
Off to Nazca to see the lines We had paid extra for a first class "cama" seat which is like a bed seat that extends to nearly 180degrees flat. This bus was a double decker with fewer seats due to the sleeper seats. The ticket included a meal which was ...
trip to Cahauchi and Estaquería
Saturday we had a few hours of labwork, and then a few of us ran off for a much appreciated excursion. Less than an hour from here is a 2,000 year old ceremonial center called Cahuachi. Located near an above ground water source and surrounded by ...
Nazca Lines
Woke in our very Mexican style hotel to a continental breakfast. Not sure which part was continental but we feasted on bread as had no appetite for food last night after a long bus journey here. Met our tour bus to the air field at 8am. Once there the ...
South America´s Second Most Famous Lines...
After the stunning Machu Picchu we arrived at Nazca to see the mysterious Nazca Lines. We jumped off yet another night bus to find ourselves away from the Andes for the first time in a month in the town of Nazca. Unfortunately this was one of ...