Hotel Oro Viejo Nasca

... there was a hotel that was also mentioned in our Rough Guide. After some hesitation we decided to stay over there. Altough it was a little bit more expensive it was a relief to stay in a beautiful hotel with a comfortable and modern room. We were planning to stay only 1 night but the decision to add another night was quickly made ;-).<br> <br>Overall we mainly enjoyed the quietness and the pool of the hotel. Of course we couldn't leave Nazca without seeing the ...

... And especially when they learned it can happen to any class, any culture, race, etc.<br><br>No one really knows because its been kept secret for so long. I told them all that silence and fear are the only tools that a sexual offender has - and the fact that no one realises how ubiquitous it is...well just goes to show how well they can keep it under wraps.<br><br>Well enough of that. Im going onward to the gem of Peru and I cannot wait to see what Cuzco can give me.

... the A-Team like gold van, we swerved our way into a row of angry traffic and made our way to the airport, and our tiny 6 man passnger plane. <br><br>Nicki jumped out with fear in her eyes and I could almost hear her say "Ain`t goin on no plane fool!", but I dragged her dopey looking head into the terminal anyway. Besides, we weren`t just there to climb a ladder to the moon. We were going, even I had to knock her out first. Our pilot seemed professional and ...

... be fun, Kate thinks she is going to be sick as she remembers the landing we made at Quito airport!!!!<br> After a very quick check-in we are greated by the pilot and escorted to the plane, the flight only lasts 30 minutes but during that time we see the most amazing shapes and pictures drawn into the desert floor, the full complexity and size is only seen from the sky, so it really makes you think how ...

... crowing at 2.30am. It&#8217;s still the middle of the night for goodness sake! Gradually his mates join in and by 6.30 it seems that, right outside our window, there is a choir of cocks being conducted by a drunkard. Suddenly I miss my shotgun.<br><br>However, other activities available include sand-boarding and gate-crashing a luxurious hotel to use their pool &#8211; we are becoming true backpackers!! We chose to do both and depart for the sand dunes in a beach ...

... madam :-))<br><br>"Nazca Lines are the most outstanding group of geoglyphs in the world. Etched in the surface of the desert pampa sand about 300 hundred figures made of straight lines, geometric shapes and pictures of animals and birds - and their patterns are only clearly visible from the air. <br><br>Could these geoglyphs be effigies of ancient animal gods or patterns of constellations? Are they roads, star pointers, maybe even a gigantic map? If the people who lived here ...

... including how the lines had actually been made. I hope one day someone will also tell us why. <br><br>I spend the evening at Toby's, on the outskirts of Nasca. Toby is a nice Peruvian man who lives off some rusty stuff he finds on a nearby cemetery: he does it up and makes the tourists buy it as the original pottery of the ancient Nasca society. I sit there for a while and get back to the hotel.