Nazca lines Information
The flight over the Nazca lines is a fascinating
experience. Wer offer you an excellent opportunity to see
one of the world's unresolved mysteries: the Nazca Lines.
We take you there by bus through the panamericana highway,
passing through the small oasis of Palpa (which is famous
for its orange groves), then through the coastal mountains
to Nazca, which is 598m above sea level and around 450km south
of the Lima. It is also possible to do the flight at the end
of your Peru vacation, coming from the north or coming from
Arequipa.
Nazca is a relatively small town of about 30,000 people.
Most designs represent a variety of giant animals such as
a 180m-long lizard, a 90m-long monkey with an extravagantly
curled tail or a condor with a 130m wingspan. Others are simple
but perfect triangles, rectangles or straight lines running
for several kilometers across the desert, only to be observed
by plane.
The lines, thousands of them in all, were made by the Nazca
and Paracas cultures by clearing darker rocks on the desert
surface to expose lighter soil underneath.
Scientists debate why the lines were built. Among theories,
they may have served as a calendar, a map of underground water
supplies or even as landing strips for alien spaceships.
The flight over the Nazca lines is highly dependable on the
weather conditions. Usely they start early in the morning
when the weather is nice. Cloudy or bad weather may result
in a couple of hours delay.
Islas Ballestas Information
Pisco normally is the first town you will
visit after your stay in Lima in the sequence of your Peru
travel adventure. The white-grape brandy produced in this
region, shares its name with the town.
This fairly important port with about 90,000 inhabitants
lies 235km south of the capital. Most visitors use it as a
base to see the wildlife of the nearby Islas Ballestas and
Peninsula de Paracas, declared as a National Reserve park.
Islas Ballestas is also known as "poor mans Galapagos".
The area is also of historical and archeological interest.
The resort village of Paracas is about 15km south of Pisco
and has many private seaside villas that are empty for most
of the year.
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