Cantayo Spa & Resort Hotel Nasca

... mogen zetten. Na 6 dagen niet wassen en geen toillet in de buurt, word ik soms kriegelig. Dan ben ik moe en heb je behoefte aan een beetje luxe zoals een douche. Vaak ren ik na het diner naar mijn tent, spring ik mijn slaapzak en val ik snel in slaap.<br><br>Natuurlijk hebben we ook veel lol, de groep is fantastisch. Erg divers en iedereen heeft zo zijn rol. Straks gaat JP weer terug naar Christine en Timo. Ik zal mij dan ...

... is very friendly but don't speak english so if you don't mind that just go there and feel like home.<br>From my last trip to Nasca (2 years ago) this town looks better, cleaner but still lot to do.<br>A good Restaurant is El Porton but there are others too like Don Hono which is cheaper but basic.<br>On my arrival at nasca station i asked the Cruz del Sur counter about the hostel and he offered me to check availability and the hostel staff sent a ...

... to why the Nazca constructed the lines, the most popular;<br><ul><li>A sign to the Gods. The Inca were intensely religious. The sun and moon gods were placed above all else.<br><br> </li><li>The lines were a ritual walk way to be walked during shaman ceremonies which involved<br> hallucinogenic drugs.<br></li></ul><br>The Incas were advanced mathematicians and it is believed the lines were mapped out using sophisticated surveying techniques that ...

... terminal shouted across, he`s ok, he`s safe, I know him. He had a municipal city sticker on so we parted our patience and jumped in the back for a ride into the desert. As we left the outskirts of town and hung a left into the barren desert I looked nervously across at our drivers glove compartment, imagining a gun inside. We were in the middle of no-where and it could have quite easily have been us that ended up mummified in the desert instead.<br ...

If you´ve read the previous blog entry you´ll have learned that I knackered out Nadine´s camera and so for the Nasca Lines we used the backup camera and I forgot to bring it to the internet cafe to upload the pictures. Sorry about that but here´s a brief synopsis without pics:<br><br>- Took another nice bus to Nasca<br>- Bought some cheapo plane tickets at the bus station for a trip up in a Cessna<br>- Got into ...

... 1940s, when Maria Reice a German born archaeologist, really brought the Nazca lines to public attention.<br><br>We arrived in Nazca early in the morning and as we were starving and heard not to do the flight just after eating we decided to take an afternoon flight. We wandered Nazca, which as mentioned before is not the most exciting place, just a town in the middle of the desert facilitating the tourists coming through to see the lines. Before the ...

... War One trenches and hopping over the ditches with full backpacks is exciting!<br><br>Nasca is a growing town in this god-forsaken wilderness. It&#8217;s is a one trick pony, famous for the lines that were created by the ancient Nascans 1800 years ago. The lines depict animals (most of which are not endemic to this desert) such as monkeys, hummingbirds, parrots and herons and also geometric lines that seem to run at random. All the lines are enormous and plainly ...

... guy, a biker riding from Costa Rica and his new girlfriend Veronica whom he met in Medellin Colombia. They have been travelling together on his bike for a few months and they are a great couple - very fun and funny. We met them trying to find a hotel in Nazca and we went out to dinner with them and had some Sangria and beer - a nice night out.<br>

Nazca is home to its world-famous lines, so that's the big attraction here. Other than that, there&#8217;s not a whole lot to commend it. I had yet to develop a taste for the desert, so my appreciation for the landscape was little. To get the killer view you take a fly-over, but I could hardly justify the expense, so just climbed the tower to see what I could see. I guess the ...