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Nasca, Peru
14° 49' S 74° 56' W
Sep 13, 2005 23:23
Distance 120km

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Nasca Lines and Lines and Lines and Lines

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Well we arrived here after a pants bus ride where some old woman was sat in our seat and wouldn't move. We managed to sit scattered all over the bus, it was really pants, but made better by the amazing scenery outside. We managed to get a really pants room as well, which was obviously pants!! Then we went and checked our reservation that a silly man made for us in Lima for a flight over the Nasca lines and realised he'd done it wrong and we were meant to have been on our flight earlier in the day. After 5 mins worrying, he said it was changed and then we had a nice tea, so that made the day good after all. The next day we went on our flight over the Nasca lines in a 4 man plane (the lines are of monkeys and dogs and condors made in the sands that were made to be seen from the sky and only discovered in the 1920's. All to do with water apparently). The flight was ace and I was in the front which made it even better. The plane turned right on it's side so we could take some good photos. Worth the detour!

In the afternoon we went to see some Incan cemetery with mummies in tombs. It was quite scary as you could actually see the bodies and we got caught in another sand storm. That sand hurts you know!!

In the evening we went to a lecture on the lines which was in the guide bookn and the friend we met recommended it. They said that she was a bit crazy but it was a good thing to do and on the night they went there were 5/6 people. Well I could have killed them as we went down a darkened residential street and walked straight past a big building with LECTURE written all over it and we were called over by the crazy woman herself. So just the 2 of us turned up and she left us in the room whilst she made herself look a bit more presentable and told us to read a book. Then she got us reading a paper and helping her understand what it meant. It was all about groundwater, so Kirst goes tell her you're a hydrologist, well that was the end of it. Put on the spot was an understatement. She practically wanted me to sort the water shortage out for the town. DOH! The lecture was actually top banana and I reckon much better value than the big hotel lecture they were giving with posh seats. We were sat on potato sacks filled with sands, but she had a fantastic scale model that she'd made.

After that we went to get our bus to get out of the town, which itself was another really rubbish journey. Must have got about 2 hours sleep. We got an over night bus to save on accomodation. But the woman next to me kept being sick every 20 mins, not the greatest journey ever, plus we had a blow out and had to swap to a really rubbish bus filled with billions of flies. I'm covered in bites, but Kirst seems ok. I must have tasty blood or something : D