Day by Day Travels

Tuesday, we had a nice late start to the day- as we only had to be in the lobby at 11am for our Nazca flight. We had the breakfast buffet which was awful, so headed in to town on search of something better. Had a light breakfast as we didn’t want too much in our stomaches if we were flying on a small craft. We hung around and headed back to meet up the tour guide. When we got there we were informed that due to bad weather we had been delayed to 1pm. So what else to do but go to the pool. After pool time we prepared for our flight – ginger root was consumed and then we were off to Ica and the airport. The entire check in process took along time; the weighed us and checked our passports and then we had to go through security and then we had to wait for about 30 minutes for the plane. Eventually we were aboard the small cesna and Nazca bound. Our flight took off and we had 30 minutes of flying to get to the Nazca desert. The 30 minutes there was fine as we were flying in a straight line. As we approached the lines the pilot told us he would dip to the left to see a line and then dip to the right for the other side too, so you had to look out your side only (there are 13 glyphs!) The first glyph we approached was the whale we dipped left and my stomach dipped too- I threw the camera at Frank took out the barf bag and enjoyed the next 35 minutes dipping from side to side! Frank was in his element and got to see all the lines.
The Nazca Lines were created between 500 B.C. and A.D. 500 by the Nazca civilization.
There are over 300 different figures depicting animals, plants, human beings, and geometric shapes. Most of the figures are made from a single, continuous line.
The largest figures measure over 300 metres long.
Some of the straight lines run several kilometers across the desert, so precise they vary by only a few degrees.
The Nazca Lines have been naturally preserved because of the extremely dry, windless and stable climate.
The Pan American highway cuts right through the lizard- which is sad.
The Nazca Lines were listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1994.
I was super happy when we started heading back after the 35 minutes of torture.

We had booked a dune buggy tour for after the Nazca lines- we made it back to the hotel and I was done. No way I could put my body through that. So Frank and the girls were off as soon as we got back and I slept. They got to cruise through the amazing dunes of the Paracas Desert. They even caught a sunset. When they stopped for a bit, poor Delaney didn’t feel well- all the motion had gotten to her too. Frank and Danica ended up boarding down the dunes on sand boards- looks like so much fun. After an hour on the sand they headed back to the hotel. We all took some time to gather our stomaches and headed out to Miski pizza for dinner. The food was really good- although Delaney and I were not too hungry.