Sabbatical Essay #Day 15: Nazca Lines
Our last destination before heading back to Lima was the Nazca Lines. I’ve heard of them and seen them on documentaries and maybe on National Geographic magazines but I didn’t think I will actually get to see them with my own eyes. We had very little time in Nazca before having to go back to Lima. We planned to see them from air and luckily the weather was good enough for the air tour. There is one small airbase where all the tourists go to get on a tiny plane to see the lines from above.
A collegue of mine who was there about a half a year earlier then we were, told me we was not able to enjoy any of the scenes from the plane because he had really bad case of air sickness (he also had horrible case of altitude sickness all along his trip).
Thankfully Laura and I were both super fine.
This is an interesting selfie where it looks like we are really good friends with the man sitting next to me and the women behind. ha ha ha. The plane was super small and did not exactly feel safe but we survived and seeing the lines from above was amazing. SO MYSTERIOUS! and SO VIVID! They are not some sort of weird lines that might be something, they are super clearly man made lines representing all sorts of shapes.
Then we hired a driver to take us to the actual lines on the ground. No one is allowed to actually go on the lines nowadays but there is this little station where you can drive into to look down at the lines.
They were also selling bunch of souvenirs at the bottom of this little look tower where we did some last minute souvenir shopping.
Then we were on a bus once again to Lima to catch our flight back to LA.
Our last meal in Peru before going back to US was ironically at TGIF at the airport. ha ha I am super lazy on writing down these posts so it’s been already couple of years since the trip and it’s been 2 years since I’ve been locked down due to covid. I miss traveling so much. It was ok for the first one year because I traveled so much in 2018 and 2019.. I was ok taking a break in 2020 .. but now it is driving me insane. I hope doors open up once I get my second vaccination.