Travel Peru - Nazca

[B. Anthony Burroughs]

Twenty kilometers north from the town of Nazca are the Nazca Lines. Enormous geometric designs and figures of various animals run for several kilometers across the desert. The lines, best viewed from the air were produced by the Nazca culture. They began around 400 B.C and continued to create shapes for another thousand years or so. A host of people have studied the lines to interpret their significance including Maria Reiche, a German mathematician who spent the greater part of her life doing research in Nazca. Their true meaning remains a mystery to this day.


Nazca is about 7 hours north of Lima by the Panamerican highway. It can be visited year round, but give yourself at least a day or two to take it all in.

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