Please note we have adjusted these pics to make the lines more visible.
We spent a lot of time deciding whether or not to go to Nasca. How often do you get to see lines and pictures carved into the desert 1500 years ago, covering hundreds of kilometers. On the other side, is seeing them worth risking our lives? In the past decades too any people have died while flying over them in dodgy planes that didn't make it back. In the end we did our research and found out that 2 years ago the Peruvian government changed the laws, and now only the best companys are allowed to fly over the Nasca Lines.
So with a massive thanks to Jamie, we climbed into a tiny 8 seater plane and spent 30 exhilerating, spectacular, seriously bumpy and tummy churning minutes above the lines. The Nasca people drew these lines by moving the darker stones from the desert floor to reveal the lighter dusk like earth underneath. They were only discovered in the 1930's when people flying over them for the first time noticed the giant geoglyphs below. No one is entirely sure why they were made, maybe to communicate with aliens, or as gifts to the gods. Whatever the reason, they are just unbelievable. They are so precise, so mathmatical, so elegant.
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| The Whale |
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| Trapezoids |
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| The Astronaut |
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| The Monkey, he's the size of a football field |
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| The Dog, upside down |
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| The Hummingbird |
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| The Spider |
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| The Hands |
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| The Condor |
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