Nazca Lines

The Nazca lines are lines/drawings in the countryside around Nasca.  They were made by removing the top layer of reddish-brown stones to reveal the yellow-grey subsoil. (Thanks to Wikipedia for that).  No one knows exactly who was responsible nor why.  However seeing them was the raison d'etre of our 3 day extension.

We drove to Ica airport.  It is a full-on international airport with only Aerodiana using it for flights over the Nazca lines.  It is the emergency airport for Lima though.

We were in a 12 seater Cessna Caravan.  We were weighed, carrying our bags etc and were seated according to our weight.  We were two across so every seat had a window.

 

 

KM and I were put on this plane at the last minute and were right down the back.  I guess it is the exit row.  Not sure what, if anything, it says about our weight.

The pilots before take-off.

Headphones on

And they do have checklists.  Fortunately, no frantic turning of the pages though.

Some shots of the countryside.

 

We were told that the pilots would do a turn around all the figures so they would be clearly visible from both sides of the plane.  We were told to keep our orientation by looking at the horizon and not to focus too much on our cameras, or we would be ill.

My pic of the Spiral is the one that came out best.

 The Astronaut

The hummingbird

Here are the last two according to Google:



Then it was all over and we flew back to Ica.  One hour, 40 minutes total.  A good flight in a real plane was a bonus.