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Day 2 - Colca Canyon tour and then to Nazca
... and we were ready to catch a taxi to the bus station. (10Soles, inc. tip) The paperwork of converting our vouchers from the travel agency took done time, we handed over our baggage and then had to pay an exit tax if 2 Soles each. Half an hour sitting in the departure lounge on funky seats and we boarded the bus, down stairs, in luxury. The meal was a little messy but tasty. The movie was subtitled and jumpy and the road was long but bumpy. Fell asleep sometime after ...
Lined it up, Mysteriously
... spreading out across the desert. The geometric lines can be kilometres long whilst the more detailed images such as the monkey, humming bird, spider, dog and condor were around 200m wide at most. I never realised so many of these pictures were so close together, we saw about 15 mammals and insects in one flight and uncountable geometric lines and shapes.
There are two rather big questions surrounding the lines, how were they made ...
Nazca
Si senor !
Départ de Huacachina à 06:30 pour Nazca.
Petite escale d'une journée à Nazca, pour aller voir les fameuses lignes.
Pour cela il faut prendre un tout petit avion, payer cher, et surtout ne pas avoir le mal de l'air..
30 minutes de vol, pas une minute de plus et heureusement !! Les formes sont tres difficiles à prendre en photo car l'avion va trop vite et bouge beaucoup. Mais c'est tout de même impressionnant !
Apres ce ...
Lines in the sand.
... have held us beyond the dreaded nightfall which still seems very early at 6-7pm. First an hour kept waiting whilst some explosions were going off to widen the road. Fortunately we barged to the front and got away first. It was mayhem though with people driving off on both sides of the road (forgetting that traffic would soon be coming the other way) and forcing their way past the barriers while the police officer was still there blowing his whistle furiously. ...
Les mystérieux géoglyphes de Nazca
... ces trépidantes émotions ( et les 30 minutes de récupération au sol derrière ) car le spectacle était vraiment dingue.
Des formes gigantesques et des dessins impressionnants dans un paysage désertique à perte de vue.
Incroyable !!
Le ville de Nazca, bien animée , contraste avec ce désert qui n'est qu'une vaste étendue brûlée par le soleil. ( il ne pleut qu'une 1/2 heure par an ! ).
Une jolie ...