Hostel Camiluz Nasca

... pottery human bones, hair and cotton used to wrap the mummies.

After the cemetery we went to a pottery place when we were given a demonstration of how the Nasca made their pottery. After which we purchased a small vase, although it was a bit of a set up for tourists the potter was a real artist - now we just have to transport it for the next 3 months safely.

After the tour we came back to the hostel to relax before our overnight bus ride to Arequipa.

... tour I saw no reason to change my mind. We went on the trip with two Australians, a German girl and a Canadian girl. The Chauchilla cementary is about 30 km out in the desert from Nasca and off the highway on a dirt track. We had to pay a mere 5 soles in entry fee and then our driver/guide took us passed the 12 open graves. It was fascinating and creepy at the same time. There were several corpses in each grave, and due to the way they were burried, the ...

We stopped over in Nasca just for a night so we could do a flight over the Nasca Lines. The anchient geoglyphs were only discovered in 1939 by chance when Paul Kosok, a North American scientist flew over them. There are many theories on what the purpose is of the ...

In Nasca, most people come here to take a flight to see the petroglyphs from by flyover. I really am not going to see the lines and really didnt have an interest because it costs so much. Or rather it costs more than I care to spend. So instead Im here to just take the night bus to Cuzco. Ive heard that the big action in Peru is over there, so I cant wait to get there. I got here a bit late and I still didnt even know if I was going to be able to take a night bus ...

... weg met miezer, langs zandheuvels en veel vrachwagens die rakelings voorbij zoeven.








Het zwaarste van deze rit zijn de onvoorziene omstandigheden. Zo hadden we een tocht over de hoogste toppen van de AltiPlano, bleek de plaats voor een bushcamp niet meer te bestaan. Mochten we een extra klim maken (van een uur) naar de top om op een betonnen parkeerplaats in de vrieskou onze tent op ...

We arrived in Nazca via a fancy Cruz Del Sur bus with leather seats. So things were looking good. On arrival at the bus station you get hounded by the limitless tour company's offering flights over the nazca lines. It was 8am and our hostel picked us up for free, awesome. The Nazca Trails Hostel is More like 'a few rooms out back of a travel agent' than a hostel. But it has wifi, and they upgraded us to a room with an ensuite for free. Happy days.

Lots of people skip ...

... facts about the Inca.

• Domesticated the Llama, Alpaca and Guinea Pigs.
  
• Originally domesticated and cultivated maize, tomato, cashew, peanut, coca, hot peppers, squash, manioc, cassava, pineapple and the potato – not the Irish.
  
• Experts at irrigating crops.
  
• Around the time of Christ, the Nazca were driving tunnels into hillsides in the South
  of Peru for the purpose of irrigation.
  
• Nazca, Ica, Peru acidnam

... shop just outside the airport, my head was spinning slightly and Nicki was looking a bit green but I think we just needed food. I waltzed around for the rest of the day with a buzz of excitement. I don`t know how the lines got there, and I`m pretty sure scientists never will, but what I do know is that I remain enchanted by my trip over them.

I want to sing like Bob Dylan, and wish I had my guitar with me, but I guess I`ll just sit and wonder why.

... on our balcony with a G+T, followed by our best chicken and chips yet. Philistines. Genius.

The next morning we flew over the nazca lines. Poverty travellers can climb two flights of stairs to stare into the desert and see nothing, but as we have been paying taxes for a few years now and are only semi slumming it, we went first class and excessively paid for a rickety plane and vomit bags. A slight concern arose when we saw our seatbelts being ...

... likely the local shamen that used to take drugs and when high thought of themselves flying. The most likely stories are that the lines were used during ritual ceremonies and walked along by the Nazca people or offerings to the gods to provide water to the area. The Nazca lines were only discovered in the 1930s, after commercial flights started flying over the area and pilots started seeing strange figures in the sand. It really wasn´t until around ...