The Lines in Nazca

Leaving Lima early morning gave us chance to admire landscape all the way to Nazca... trip took 7 hours J

For us Nazca isn’t only city of the lines but as well city where we found more friends. We met Ruben and his great family and once again we felt at home. Ruben has a great project in his hands...he is building up different, alternative place, which will hopefully make “revolution” in Nazca. We are very curious about the result he gonna get.

We planned to visit Nazca lines, better to say, we wanted to fly over the lines. Unfortunately, lines belong to business type of heritage.  Ticket was too expensive for us. We spoke to many local and nonlocal people and they all agreed that price is made for rich type of tourists. Not for explorers like us, neither for Peruvians.  Sad but truth! And so we went only to view point, from which we could see two figures and many straight lines. After this point we went to second one and because we didn’t want to walk on the highway, we walked some meters inside. From nowhere appeared man on motorbike, shouting on us...”what are we doing, we can’t walk there, it’s place of lines and we should respect it!!” And Nuno argued with him...there was no sign, no fence, nothing at all...  Anyway, we had to walk on Panamericana – highway, which by the way crosses through one of the biggest Nazca lines figure(the Lizard). Isn’t that ridiculous?? Lines belong to UNESCO heritage and they allowed them to built highway through lines...

Back “home” we cooked dinner for our hosts and we had nice talk with parents of Ruben. They tried to teach us some Quechua wards, but only one stayed in Nuno’s mind. Pajaricama – see you tomorrow.

Later on in the evening Ruben’s friends arrived and Victor from Colombia with his guitar warmed the night playing and singing his original and cover music. J

We had planty of plans for time spent in Nazca. But desertic heat surprised us and so we cancelled most of plans and just enjoyed our resting time J

Anyway, we couldn’t stop thinking about next highlight of the trip. Cuzco and Machu Picchu were so near J We took night bus and after 14 hours we would be in Cuzco.