Yesterday was meant to be spent enjoying the sites of Arrequipa, however I was still suffering from the pork crackling the day before. We travelled overnigh by coach and arrived in Nazca.
Nazca is one of the highlights for me as I have always wanted to see the Nazca lines and have been fascinated by them for such a long time.
Funnily the Tucans are here - not the birds but the other tour group who seem to appear nearly everywhere we go!!
We did a tour of the ancient burial sites where a lot of damage has been done by the grave robbers and many of the bones still lie on the surface beacause of this now. The preserved mummies were very impressive though. After the burial site we headed to a workshop where they showed us how they made the ceramics during the times of the Nazcas.
Then the big one. Andrea and I were crazy enough to get into a small plane to fly over the Nazca lines. Everyone on the trip so far had said that they struggled to hold onto stomach during the flight and stomach certainly registered a couple of complaints during the flight. The flight was bumpy and plenty of turbulence added to the cocktail. However the lines were amazing and despite losing my lunch would not have changed it. The lines are drawn in the desert and can only be observed from a great height (by plane or such). It is unkown how they lines were drawn and why?? Not too sure if Erik Von Danikens theories about UFO landing sites is true though. They are probably on par with Machu Pichu for the highlights so far.
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