Monthly Archives: May 2013

This guy was standing outside our plane with a fire extinguisher as we were waiting to take off over the lines…what was he expecting???

The light colored mountain in this photograph is not actually a mountain at all. It is a sand dune and it Towersover the city of Nazca. It takes two hours to get to the top and that is a good … Continue reading →

The Nazca Lines were unknown in the 1930’s when the highway that stretches from Canada down though the Americas was built. It actually cuts through the edge of the area where the lines are. The lines only became known after … Continue reading →

There was no electricity in my room in Nazca until I put the card from my key into the slot labeled ‘main switch’!

As you pass through you make a wish….

At this angle, can you see the elephant on the right end and the mastodon on the left? This is the larger of the two islands and the one they live on during harvest.

That large black patch on the Island is thousands of birds. They are producing tons of guano….

They have built rock walls on the islands to prevent all of the guano from sliding into the sea. Once every 7 years they come out to harvest it. It takes a lot of manpower as they put the guano … Continue reading →