Hotel Nazca Lines Nasca

So, we left Huacachina the next day for a bus to Nazca. It only took like 5 hours and we got to watch (and cry to) The Bucket List (again). So we arrive at the bus station and had been warned about this place. Touts everywhere trying to scam you etc. we had a reservation for a hostel that they would try to tell us did not exist anymore and stuff like that. SO we got off the bus, blatantly ignored them all and set about trying to flag a cab. Couldn't. So, we ended up walking there but it wasn'...

NAZCA Perhaps you're like us, and never heard of the hubbub of the Nazca lines until you came to Peru. After recommendations by a few travellers to make sure we take the flight over the famed Nazca lines, we figured we needed to learn a little about them first. The fascination behind the lines is due to the fact that they were created with such accuracy, and the fact that they could only be appreciated from above, in an era where flight was not possible. The geometric shapes and lines are so ...

Hoi aarde Hier een emailtje vanuit de lucht: Nasca. Tussen 900 voor Christus en 600 na Christus hebben vermoedelijk een paar lokale bewoners tekeningen gemaakt in de rotsbodem, sommige tot een grootte van wel tweehonderdvijftig meter. De reden is onduidelijk. Speculaties gaan van een astronomische calender en religieuze looppaden tot tekeningen voor buitenaardse wezens: kies er maar een. De tekeningen zijn het beste te bewonderen vanuit de lucht, dat hebben wij dus ook gedaan in een kleine Ce...

We arrived about 6am, so earlier than we had expected. We had no issues of safety on the bus at all, but it was bloody freezing! We hardly slept at all because of it, so it was not a good start to our one and only day in Nasca. We were met at the bus station by a man in a really cool car and he took us to our hotel. The hotel room we have is great, it is big and clean and we have a TV and en suite bathroom, but the rest of the hotel is a little strange to say the least! To get to our room you...

Monkey on the left monkey on the left, monkey on the right monkey on the right! (I will explain). The flight over the Nasca Lines was a hairaising experience. Tiny 3 or 5 man planes take you up over the lines, sketched out across a massive open landscape. The plane then tips 45 degrees both ways to give all passengers (that aren't staring into a paper bag)a great view of the monkey, whale, or other strange feature you´re flying over. Our favourite was the hummingbird which turned into a speci...

An early start and it's cold (but thankfully warmed up as the day went on). The reason for the early start is to avoid seasickness. We're off on a boat to the Ballestas Islands to see wildlife and the sea is calmest early morning (plus there are fewer annoying tourists). The boat was a small speedboat with just the four of us, local guide and driver - we seemed to spend more time in the air than on the water. The Ballestas Islands are three small, uninhabited islands a few miles off the coast...

The hostel in Nazca was right across the street from where we arrived at 10pm that night. Rather posh place we had been told it would be twenty soles each but on arrival the concierge said 25 Us dollars. I do not think so!! We made to leave and he then said it was 60 soles for the both of us and so we decided as we were knackered to enjoy a bit of luxury. As we were signing in he tried the same thing with the next couple aswell. Hmmmm and they had checked into their room so it was not even li...

The night bus was very comfortable, slept like a baby! Arrived at our hotel Nazca at about 8.30am. We had breakfast, then we were supposed to meet after we had showered at 9.30 to do our flights over the Nazca Lines. These were lines marked in the ground by several different civilisations hundreds of years ago that can only be seen from the air. It was much later than that before we actually got in our 6 seater plane ... probably a good thing because a few people who went up too close to brea...

The coach to Nasca took about 10 hours but the journey was fairly comfortable with reclinable chairs and movies playing on a little TV. We arrived in Nasca city at about 9pm and went for a stroll around the three blocks that make up this little town. The shops were run down and the streets were dirty. We bought some ice-creams and sat in the main square absorbing the Nasca life. For such a small town it was very busy, and the streets were very animated with locals and tourists. In the morning...