So, I'm finally getting a chance to fill in the last day of my Peru trip which ended almost a week ago now. We got to take a jet plane to fly down to see the Nazca lines. The Nazca line are basically lines that are carved into the ground/mountain and they are at least 50 km long so it can only be seen from aerial point. So, the only way to see it is by flying over it and that is exactly what we did. Until today, no one really knows what the Nazca lines were used for or why they were drawn though some claim that these pictures are connected to each other by lines because of astrology that that has not been confirmed either. Regardless, before we even got to the mini airport, I was extremely excited to see this. I mean who doesn't want to go onto a jet plane and look at historical pictures? Well, I guess my excitement came too soon. I was slightly disappointed with the trip. I saw probably only half (or even less) or the pictures and I almost threw my breakfast out while doing it. My breakfast was hurling in the stomach because the pilot probably didn't do a very good job at turning or adjusting the pressure. Everyone was just not feeling it and trying to concentrate to look down at pictures which are pretty much disguised with color of the ground and landscape is actually an extremely difficult task. I even had a map of the shapes with me and I could not even spot it. Its literally like hide and seek with the ground. Though I did manage to hold my breakfast it but I could almost taste it, these pictures are extremely hard to see. But, I have to admit the few that I saw, I was pretty impressed with them. I mean, how deep and wide do you have to carve that you barely see it ( and a huge possibility that you'd miss it like most people)? I guess these are questions still to be figured out.
Like always, pictures...well before people hurled and got sick.
1. Look at everyone's excitement before we took off. Not really the case when we were actually in the air and looking at the lines.
2. Pilot and the plane.
3. The one thing I found easily...the trapezoid though it clearly wasn't a signifcant one.
4. My failed and missed attempt to take a picture of the whale though almost everyone could not find it and it was one of the first ones.
5. Theres the parrot. That took some spotting and if you look closely you'll see it in the middle of the picture.
6. Thats the group after the flight with the pilot. Ok? Thank you! (That is what the pilot kept saying after everyone picture he introduced though I couldn't even see it. lol)
The excitement kind of turned into an slight uneventual matter.
That night we got to experience a meal at a Chinese restaurant-Chifa and the interesting thing is that not one person working there is Chinese. The owner is Chinese but he wasn't there that day.
I guess that ends my accounts of the trip but there will be more pictures and mini reflection/bits to come soon!
School just started and things are just about to get a bit busy.
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