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¡Buenas!

It is Sunday and I am recovering from a very nausiating flight over the desert lines in Nazca. http://www.crystalinks.com/nazca.html Here is some information for you if you have no idea what they are. Basically thousands of years ago, the people who lived in this area created lines in the desert of different animals (and one man who looks like your stereotypical martian). The lines were discovered by modern society in the 1920´s and have confused scientists since. There are many theories about how the lines were created including a visit from aliens. My theory is the Peruvian government created them to creat tourists and at night updates the lines so they are visiable the next day. I don´t think that is shared by many people though. The lines are actually really cool to see because there are lines all over the desert and they look like creative irrigation canals. The fact that they have been around for a while is also impressive, of course I don´t know how they have dated the lines if they were only discovered in the 20th century.

So my flight was an interesting one. Four seats to a plane, one for the pilot, three for tourists, in a small propellar plane. Now I heard the ride was a bumpy one, so I tried to prepare myself by not eating breakfast and I wasn´t nervous until we took off. I going to let everyone in on a little secret, I get extremly nausas when I am on bridges, skysrapers, glass elevators, The Eifel Tower (especially walking down from the 2nd floor to the 1st floor because I was told by a certain individual that it wasn´t far :) haha). So why I decided to take a crop plane ride, I have no idea. But thankfully my stomach acid did not come up. There were several times I thought I was going to have to use the platic bag provided by the pilot however. It´s approxiamently a 35 minute ride and you pass over the lines from the left side, then the right side - and the pilot really turns that plane to the side so you can see the lines, the line that tells how level the plane is was almost vertical (sorry I don´t know the official name). I didn´t move for 20 minutes after the flight.

I am now doing some souvenir shopping in the town center and will visit a couple of sites later, then take an overnight bus to Arequipa.


Adios mis amigos