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Nazca

Booked a package deal from Huacachina which included bus trip, accommodation in Nasca, short flight over the Nasca lines,a tour of an ancient cemetery and a visit to the local artesan establishments.

For the avoidance of doubt, Nasca lines are huge primitive ´drawings´ formed in the desert sand hundreds of years ago and still visible from the air today. There is a condor, a monkey, a HUMMINGBIRD, a dog, AN ASTRONAUT(?) etc...about 13 in all. I was woken at 6.30 by my crafty tour rep. Miriam (who kept trying to squeeze more cash out of my wallet) and informed that we should leave for the airport shortly!! The plane was a Cessna and I sat up front with the pilot. I had been prewarned not to have breakfast as the flight involves the pilot flying at 90 degrees to horizontal over each Nasca drawing, twice! Thankfully I didn´t throw up (unlike the 2 young girls at the back) and was quite happy to land again.

Jumping into the car for the rest of my tour later that morning I was accosted by two brazen hussy´s, Charlotte and Ruth (from my hostel in Lima) who proceeded to stalk my every movement for the following 2 weeks. The CEMETERY of Nascan mummies was slightly freakish and so many of the tombs had been desecrated I was left feeling a little unsettled, what with skulls and bones, hair, clothing and pottery strewn randomly about the place. Several tombs had been opened and the mummies propped up adjacent several artefacts. Apparently the Nascan´s had been sent to this area to die a long slow death in the desert but had managed to tap ground water and so flourished as a culture. Then it was on to a potters workshop followed by a goldsmiths. Fascinating watching him rub a piece of stone on his nose before rubbing it on the pottery to create colour.

The girls and I sampled some of the local cuisine including some rather large PISCO SOUR´S and a ´menus´ (set menu´s of 3 courses between 40p and 2 pounds) which form the most common eating arrangement in Peru. At the hotel I was looked after by a kind-hearted Peruvian named Peter who unfortunately was prone to mumble in Anglo-Span a lot.

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