Discover the Nazca Lines in Peru
Halfway between Inca and Nazca, there’s a small tourist airport. One of the great adventures of travel in Peru is the flight above the Nazca lines. Of course, it would be nice to examine the famous lines on the grounds as well. They were made by removing the upper half meter of the ground.
On surfaces with less contact with air, manganese and iron oxide did not settle. And because of this, light lighter stripes were formed. However, the drawing can be interpreted only from the sky. The drawings extending over 520 square kilometers show geometrical, human, and animal shapes. We can see lizards, albatrosses, humming birds, monkeys, vultures and dolphins.
As a tourist, the last decades damaged many lines; today it is prohibited to enter the area. Therefore, we can closely examine the lines only in the Palpa Valley. This is 40 kilometers from Nazca and it has recently been discovered that also here similar lines are slashed to the ground. Those afraid of flying can see part of the shapes on the Pan American highway from the look-out tower built by Maria Rye.
We can also see the shapes of the models at the Ica Museums and the pictures sold in the museum’s souvenir shops. The story is about the murder described in several books; however, no irrefutable proof speaks for any one version. The first early writing about the lines can be read in the 16th century notes of Louis Tamonson who arrived with conquistadores. Scientific studies started in the 20th century.
Doctor Paul Cusack, Doctor Maria Rye, and her successor Doctor Phil Espituga all thought they had seen the biggest astronomical book of the world which shows the sun, moon, planets, and stars’ situation in comparison with each other. With its assistance, the equinox and solstice timing, the rise of rivers, the sowing and harvesting times all became calculable.
[Foreign Language], the main representative of the extra-terrestrial visits thanks to the Nazca lines for landing strips made for space vehicles. The huge sizes, the perfect dimensions, and the straightness - that some scientist had the conclusion that the craters had to have seen their work from very high.
The American Bill Spar, living in Peru, tracked to prepare a flying machine from materials which could have been available to the Indians in those ages. The hot-air balloon could rise up to 315 meters and travel five kilometers. We don’t if the Indians could really fly, but, Bill Spar demonstrated that they could have had the possibility to do so.
Traveling south from the Nazca plateau, the way leads to a volcanic area. On this part of the Peruvian coast, the rivers rarely reach the seawater leaking into the ground. The natives living here collected this life-giving water and made this come alive. The round air holes made in the stone narrowing as they live down are called here Tantanas. These were used to clean or maintain if damages occur. Allegedly, all this was built the same time as the Nazca lines in the period of 500 B.C. to 500 A.D.
Approaching Artequipa, we cross perhaps the most beautiful but wildest area of Peru; we can see active volcanoes, highlands, coastal deserts and the deepest canyon in the world. The deepest part of the Del Colca is 3400 meters.
The whole territory of the national reserve is 367,000 hectares and the Pampa Cañahuas located at 4,000 meters is also part of it, the natural living place of the Vicunas. The Lama is the most ruminant mammal of South America. Four species are known and the Vicuna is only in wild. Its wool as that of the sheep is shorn. The Indians weave their plant-painted blankets from this wool.
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