Nazca

There is always a place in a trip that needs to be sacrificed because you are running short on time; for us it was Nazca.

In our original plan we wanted to spend 2 nights in Nazca so that we could book the 35 minutes flight to watch the famous lines from the sky.

In the end we got to Nazca at 4pm, found a cheap hotel where we dropped our stuff and rushed to the mirador on the Panamerican just on time to watch a couple of lines before sunset.

We do regret missing out on the flight however, on a positive note, we believe that half of the fun in our visit to Nazca was to get there.

The road from Lima to Nazca is 500 kms of desert where for the first time in the whole trip we managed to keep an average speed of 100 kms/ph.

Covering 500 Kms in 1 day was quite important in the economy of the trip. In 70 days we had only covered 5500Kms where in reality we should have done at least 7000!

The section from Ica to Nazca is “desert at its best” with rock formations eroded by centuries of winds that reminded us the valleys of Cappadocia and Meteora.

As you get closer to the” lines territory” it feels like being on a different planet.

On your left there are mountains shaped by the wind and terrain made of loose rocks.

On the right a vast flat desert made of grey rocks where long time ago the inhabitants of the region drew over 800 pictures.

Some of these pictures are iconic, like the colibri or the monkey, others are very basic like the ones we have captured from the mirador: the tree and the hands.

I have to say that tree is a perfect representation of the skinny leafless trees you find from time to time on these deserted roads.

Ok, we might have missed the flight but .....what a sunset!