Tag: Peru
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Nasca Aqueducts & Chacilla Cemetry
in: Travel
The aqueducts draw water from the mountains and deliver it some 20 kms to the Nasca valley. Built about 1000AD they are still in use. The engineering is quite remarkable. The acqueducts are largely underground. Every few meters (the distance seems vary between 10 and 20 meters) there are air holes that allow the water…
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Nasca Market
in: Travel
Linda likes to visit markets, usually food markets. I think it represents a balance between the need to shop and the need to buy useful things. For me they are colourful and generally offer interesting photographs.
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Nasca Lines
in: Travel
The Nasca Lines are a collection of glyphs etched into the plains at Nasca. They are quite large. The best–only–way to see them is from the air. It is for this reason that Erich Von Däniken the well-know author, “scientist” and crackpot, claimed these lines were prepared to guide alien visitors arriving at this planet some…
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Islas Ballestas
in: Travel
The tour of these islands takes you past the “Candelabre”, which is an ancient glyphy etched in some fashion into the side of a hill. It was hard to see, possibly due to weather conditions. It was raining; or more precisely a very light drizzle. Any precipitation in this area is quite rare. I guess…
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Ica: Sand Dunes
in: Travel
After our tour of Paracas National Reserve we drove about 60 minutes to Ica. There we spent just over an hour racing across the dunes on a dune buggy and sand boarding. Sand boarding is sliding down the steep side of a dune on a waxed board. For the last few years I held a…