Nazca Lines and final goodbyes

22nd September 2011


Next on the trip was a tour to Nazca. We got our trusted taxi driver Jose to drive us to Nazca from Huacachina, calling in at a museum of Maria Reiche (the mathematician who plotted the lines), the watch tower and viewing mountain. We set off early in the car with all our luggage as this would be where we would sadly leave Mum and Michael. 

Our plan once in  Nazca we would head off on a long journey that in total would take over 24hours: 1 overnight bus to Arequipa, 6 hours to Puno at Lake Titicaca then onwards to La Paz in Bolivia. We would say goodbye to Mum and Michael and Peru! Sad times.


On tour to Nazca:

Maria Reiche Museum

Maria Reiche Museum- Mummies!!!

We chose not to take a flight over Nazca as it was quite expensive, so we didn't really get to see many drawings. Here are the ones we saw:

We forgot how hot the desert was walking around town!! We're used to the mountains...

 

In the evening it was really sad and upsetting to say our goodbyes to Mum and Michael. We all went out for a meal and we packed up ready for the boarder crossing into Bolivia. We had such a great time in Cusco, Machu Picchu, the sacred vallley, Paracas ( &National Reserve), Huacachina and Nazca with them and will miss them alot.  Thank you mum and Michael for a great 2 weeks!

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A little more info on the Nazca Lines:


As a little history lesson the Nazca lines are Geoglyphs drawn in the ground in the desert. They are now a UNESCO World Heritage site. They are believed to be drawn by the Nazca people as early as 400 AD. They drew massive 200m lizards, spiders, monkeys, hummingbirds, frogs and spacemen by scraping away the top layer of red sand on the desert, leaving white sand underneath. Due to lack of rain and the way the sculptures were made means that they have been perfectly preserved.

Archaeologists still don't know why they were made, some people think it is astrological??? Who knows.