Day 60, Nasca lines

We woke up and got ready to go to the airport. We got picked up at the hotel, picked up two more people, and went to the airport. Eike got 3 tickets, one to use the airport (30 soles), one for taxes (49 soles) and the actual airplane ticket (84 dollars). He left and Nina got a coffee and started on the penguins again. A woman came back from a flight and she was very pale and had to sit down. Nina was wondering how Eike was doing in the little airplane 🤭
The airplane was a really small one. In total eight people would fit in, but it also depends how much weight you carry. In Eikes case were 2 pilots (one flying and the other one was talking via headset with the passangers and telling where to see the nasca lines) and 5 passengers. The flight was really fun. Eike never flew in such a small plane. The nasca lines itself were very impressive and massive if you think about it. Eike was really happy to do the flight.
After 40 minutes eike was back on the ground and got a cerificate 😂
We were taken back with a van to the city, and we stepped out at the plaza de armas (that is the main square). It was very hot. The desert really has a different kind of heat.
We walked around a bit and ate a sandwich at a farmers market, but we didn't stay long in the town because of the heat. It was only 32 degrees, but it felt like 40. So for the most of the time during the day we spent at the hotels terrace and drank some beers in the shade with fresh windy air.
In the evening we went to a restaurant that had a lot of vegetables on the menu! The mixed salad was not really salad, but cooked vegetables, and it was great! So nice to eat some vitamins! We also had some pasta.
The man of the restaurant gave us a little book to look at during waiting. It was a 50 year old book of the woman who discovered the nasca lines, in german, english and spanish. It was nice to read, because eike did not get any information on his flight about the lines, so now we got some 😊 there are two different kinds of lines in nasca, the giant ones on the flat ground, and some smaller ones on the hills. They are made in different styles, where the ones on the hills are probably older, according to maria reiche.
After dinner we got an ice cream and a beer and sat in a park again. Here you can rent small cars, motorcycles, or tanks, with bright colorful lights and music, that you can ride through the small park for 10 minutes. Not only for kids! It was a nice day in nasca and hopefully we can sleep better then the day before😊Read more