Home after 2 months
27. März 2018 in Australien ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C36 hours in flight and transit
36 hours in flight and transit
Another 12 hours in transit, Santiago is not the most comfortable transit point. Day 56, marks 8 weeks away.
Today we began the transit home, beginning with the evening flight from Lima to Santiago.
We took a taxi around the beaches, which are overlooked by large cliffs, and in Miraflores, the ‘LoveWeiterlesen
After a relaxing day in Huacachina, we headed back to Ica and boarded the bus to Lima, last stop before heading home.
Coming in to Lima, smog was so thick that visibility waswas down to only a fewWeiterlesen
A chance to sit back and relax in a hammock by the pool.
After a pleasant night (Nazca gets quite hot around midday, due to no wind, then about 3 pm the winds come down from the mountains and cool everything), it was time to travel to Ica, and Huacachina.Weiterlesen
At 7 am we went to the airport to fly over the Nazca Lines. Nothing short of amazing. The pilot banked the plane this way, then that, doing steep turns to allow us to get photos of all the majorWeiterlesen
After arriving in Nazca and settling in to the hotel, we went on a tour of the sites around the city, especially the pre-Incan culture.
With our intrepid tour of Cusco and Machu Picchu at an end, we had about 5 hours to take in the museums around the city before we had to board the overnight bus to Nazca.
The tourist pictures of Machu Picchu do not prepare you for the sheer size and magnitude of the site. It is enormous and astounding when one considers the engineering involved.