Next stop Nazca, a town made famous by the Nazca Lines in the desert! The Lines are ancient geoglyphs that stretch for 80kms that include simple lines to amazing 200m long pictures of a monkey, trees, hummingbirds, llamas as well as geometric shapes. Over 70 shapes were created from moving rocks by the Nazca people (400 AD) - no one really knows what they mean but theories range from cosmology to an ancient airstrip! Check it out on Wikpedia...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines).
Whatever the truth (people have dedicated their lives to working it out), we wanted to see it for ourselves! Being peak season the flights over the lines were pricey, so we settled for the museum (full of artifacts, info & old aqueducts) and travelling into the desert to check out the lines from the viewing platform. Not a perfect view but we were pretty happy to have seen - a bit - of this wonder of the world!
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