Peruvian Adventure - Nazca Lines
The Nazca Lines were first started in 200 B.C. and there are over more then 1000 lines stretching over an area of 500 square miles. After leaving Paracas we continue in to the desert toward Nazca high with anticipation on seeing the lines, but all we see for hours and hours are dust devils and one of the loneliest places on the planet. The lines were discovered in 1926 by Peruvian archeologist, Julio Tello. most of the lines are trapezoids, suggesting that the Indians that made them had a higher level or understanding of mathematics then most other Pre-Columbian Indio's in South America. In the 1960's a team of Swedish scientist decided that the trapezoids were landing strips for extraterrestrials.
I myself after seeing them for myself do believe that they had something to do with flight, be it a take-off strip or a landing strip is something I am not sure about. But the high desert winds do suggest to me a perfect place to try to fly. And fly we did..... Driving to Nazca only permits a traveler a view of the lines from the ground, making them look all jumbled. It's when you arrive in Nazca and board a small plane that the jumble of lines start to take shape. It's only then when you get to see "The Monkey", "The Hummingbird" The Parrot", "The Whale", "The Parrot", "The Spider", "The Condor", "The Dog", The snakelike flying bird named "Alcatraz", and of course the one that even amazed me...... "The Astronaut"
Alfredo Pinto, Jorge Gutierrez,
Kerry Sullivan, and George Priola
boarding a plane at Nazca, Peru to view the Nazca Lines
"The Monkey"
"The Hummingbird"
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"The Astronaut"
"The Spider"