Nazca

One of the best days yet! SO good!

Hostel is well good so such a good sleep! And then a good breakfast - best start to a day yet! And then it was off to the airport to fly over the Nazca Lines. A little bit of a stress as the plane was TINY ... defo no space for anything extra in there! The pilot assured us that it was going to be a very smooth flight though woop.

It was fantastic. Genuinely loved it. The Nazca lines are amazing. They still don´t really know why they are there but there are plenty of theories! The animals are huge and I have no idea how they managed to make them look like what they are meant to be when they are 100s of metres long! Hopefully we got some good pictures (if not postcards will have to do!). Unfortunately the other group we were with didn´t have such a great time - lots of motion sickness! Not so good in a confined space ahaha. But they all agreed that it was absolutely worth it (it was quite expensive!).

In the afternoon we visited the Chauchilla cemetery which was also built by the Nazca people. A strange experience. They have lots of mummies which are well preserved because they were in the desert (who knew there is so much desert in Peru!) but in the areas where they haven't excavated the tombs there are just bones scattered. There are bones all over the desert of the Nazca valley and they simply don´t have the resourced to do anything with them. Not sure about that. The mummies are amazing to loook at though - like nothing you´ve seen before.

We went out for a traditional meal for dinner before the night bus to Arequipa. It was the best meal we have eaten yet. Its cooked in a whole in the ground with hot rocks and then covered with banana leaves. Lots and lots of food which was delicious! The Canadian man we are with wants to build one at home - he will definitely do it! I can´t describe quite how good it was though!

To the night bus!