Some 2,500 years ago, Nazca was the seat of a highly advanced pre-Inca

civilization that created what many have called one of the most baffling enigmas of archeology: Enormous geoglyph figures of animals, birds and geometric patterns and spirals etched in the desert.

Since they were first discovered in the 1920s, the Nazca Lines have puzzled scientists and attracted mystics and UFO enthusiasts. The figures — among them a hummingbird, monkey, heron, whale, cat with fish's tail, spider and flower — measure up to 900 feet 275m) long and can only be seen clearly from the air.
Each year, about 80,000 tourists fly over the pictographs.The drawings cover a 35-mile (56km) stretch of high desert plain 250 miles (400km)south of Lima, and the theories of their origin are as varied as they are imaginative. According to one, they were a landing strip for flying saucers, made by or for extraterrestrials.
Maria Reiche, a German-born mathematician who spent more than half a century studying and protecting the 180-square mile (450sq km) protected zone, concluded they represent a giant calendar keyed to the movements of the sun, moon and constellations, which told ancient desert dwellers when to plant and irrigate their crops.Reiche opened a small museum in 1994, where one of her old friends and associates, Victoria Nikitzhi, still gives lectures using a scale model of the lines.

NASCA LINES FULL DAY EXCURSION 

Nazca (sometimes spelled Nasca) is the name of a system of valleys on the southern coast of Peru, and the name of the region's largest existing town in the Nazca Province. It is also the name applied to the Nazca culture that flourished in the area between 300 BC and AD 800. They were responsible for the Nazca Lines and the ceremonial city of Cahuachi; they also constructed an impressive system of underground aqueducts named Puquios, that still function today. 

The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The high, arid plateau stretches more than 80 kilometers (50 mi) between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana about 400 km south of Lima. Although some local geoglyphs resemble Paracas motifs, scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 400 and 650 AD. [1] The hundreds of individual figures range in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks or orcas, llamas, and lizards. 

PROGRAM:

You will be picked up from your Hotel in Lima at 5:00 am, we will provide a professional driver and a minivan, the ride will take around 6 hours each way. On the way we will visit the Museum of the site. The Maria Reiche tomb and we will stop at the Over view of Nazca. Cut into the stony desert are large number of lines, not only parallels and geometrical figures, but also designs such as a dog, an enormous monkey, a bird with a wing span of over 100  meters, a spider and a tree. The lines, that represent some sort of vast astronomical pre-Inca calendar, are best seen from the air, we will take a half hour flight above the Lines (Airfare included), after the over flight we will take some time to rest and we will have lunch (included) before coming back to Lima. (L)


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