Mantantial de Santo Domingo Ica

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"There aint no use to sit and wonder why babe"<br><br>I didn`t know why I was going there. I`d Seen a program on the tv I was fascinated by. Strange lines in the desert drawn by aliens or a star chart drawn by an ancient civilization? I was travelling in a blacked out Cruz Del Sur bus, dropping 3 and a half thousand metres from the pinnacle of the Andes into the Nazca desert at sea level. <br><br>I was pretty sure my brain would explode at some point from ...

... watching spaniesh movies waiting for 10pm to roll around to taxi to the bus stop. A 10 hour bus ride awaits. Hmpf.<br><br>Jeff, been trying to catch you on MSN but you´re either skiving off work or are on a course. Will try again another time!<br><br>Sent some postcards today so will they arrive home first or me???<br><br>Miss you all and hope things are well at home.<br><br>Fran xxx

... 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 ...

... so we pull in, the station is on the other side of the road so have fun avoiding the lorries, we notice another GS parked up at the back, as we get closer we realise it is Yoni &amp; Gali who we met in Vilcabamba, Ecuador!<br><br>A fantastic feeling to see some friendly faces and have a conversation in English after a few days ************ the road. Gali has the excellent idea of making a cup of tea so out comes the camping stove and mugs and they even have some fab ...

... of fatalities &#8211; which given the straightness of the road is the concern. Tuks-tuks are seemingly a popular mode of transport further south, since Ica they have been running around all over the place!<br><br>We arrive in Nasca and find our Hostal, The Walk On Inn. It sounds scouse but is run by a Dutchman who has married a local girl. The road outside has been dug up to replace the sewers and there are deep trenches and loose dirt everywhere. It looks like the ...

... place is kind of like seeing Mt Rushmore - if you are driving through the area - its cool to stop and see them but don't go to Peru just to see this - its cool for about 10 minutes and then thats that...<br><br>We got down from the tower just before sundown and once we were in the dark we headed to Nazca. We met Stefan and Veronica. Stefan is a ...

... I´ve been places where there´s no highway noise, and you´re left to be entertained by the sound of the wind in your ears, and the birds chirping and leaves rustling in the forest below you (I´m thinking the summit of Old Rag right now), but there´s always been sounds of nature. There´s nothing alive in these dunes, so when you´re sheltered from the wind and the buggy´s motor is off and your friends shut up for a minute, there´s literally nothing. It was incredible. After a ...

... sandwich no problem, using bread, and there´s no way they could have run out of basic vegetables. Apparently this was of no matter to the chef, an ever-concealed ****wit of improbable ineptitude lurking back in the kitchen. Would Claire like anything else though? he asked. Claire did not. The waiter then nonchalantly walked off, leaving the poor little weasel starving and annoyed. Excellent customer service. We fled back to Desert Nights so that she could get ...

... an hour away. The previous day we told our tour guide in Lima that we´d be staying at the Double Tree and his jaw dropped. ¨Wow!¨he said, ¨the next time you travel you should invite me. That place is great!¨ His reaction set our expectations but we never imagined we'd find what we did. The hotel was sheer paradise. It had a minimalist Balinese-style decor complete with ocean view and four eternity pools. There is no way to describe it. There ...