Nazca
The overnight bus trip from Cusco to Nazca was uneventful. The bus was nice and comfortable but the winding road through the mountain prevented any sleep for the night. We arrived to Nazca at 5:30am when it was still dark. There were plenty of hawkers waiting for us, so we accepted a free taxi ride out to the airport to find a flight over the lines. We were promised to be a flight at 8am which sounded resonable so we signed up. By 11am we were getting impatient, and with the assistance of the local police, got our flight confirmed at midday... only a 6 hour wait!
The flight over Nazca was very good. We had just a little plane with 5 passengers and we flew over the desert for 30 minutes making sure to swerve back and forth around all the lines. Other travellers had told me they could hardly see the lines the previous week, but they were amazingly clear. We could clearly distinguish the whale, triangles, trapexoid, astronaut, mnkey, dog, condor, spider, hummingbird, alcatraz, parrot, tree and finally the pair of hands.
After a safe landing I headed into town with the koreans, had a feed and jumped on the bus to Lima.
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Good to have an uneventful trip, without de-railing and crashing!!! Your trip up MP must have been a challenge this especially with getting up before dawn. Wonder if the lines at Nazca are visible during the day - probably best to see them at dawn or dusk? Can't wait to get a more detailed report. Thanks for the update and have fun...
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