The trip to Nazca along the Pan-American Highway took us thru some incredibly rugged terrain. The all too frequent road-side memorials are evidence of the nature of the road and the driving habits of the locals. Nazca exists as a tourist stop because of the <nazca Lines - large pictograms formed into the desert floor by the >Nazca people 2...

The landscape had dramatically shifted to dry hot desert from the verdant greens of the rarefied alpine air in the Cuzco region as I pulled into the Nasca bus terminal. I planned on spending a bit of time in the town best known for the mysterious Nasca lines but multiple people told me that other than that they didn't think they're town was real...

La cordigliera Andina, per la sua conformazione e' un territorio geologicamente in fermento, da sempre le nazioni andine si sono scontrate con movimenti tellurici che hanno provocato mortwe e devastazione. Non e' da meno il Peru', basta ricordare il terremoto del 1964 che devasto' Cuzco, o quello del 2003 che provoco ingenti danni alla regione d...

The drive to Nasca (also spelled Nazca) took most of the day. We followed the Pan-American highway that runs along the coastline south about 6 hours. Desert dominates the coastline. I´ve never seen such desolation...and determination to eek out a living in such an inhospitable environment. There is almost no rain here. Whatever water they have i...

I don`t believe that story about aliens being the creators of the Nasca Lines, so I had to fly over them myself to witness the great feat of the Nasca people. Mummies with hair The first part of our tour took us to the cemetery where we looked in some Nasca tombs to see mummies sitting in the foetal position, shrouded in sacks, facing the rising...