Jason pointing to our sticker we put on the airline terminal building in Nazca. It is a small airstrip with small planes that take tourists to view the Nazca Lines from the air--the best way to see them.
Karen and Jason in front of the plane we took up to view the Nazca Lines from the air. Everyone got a window seat.
You can see the spider formation in this one.
Some of the lines aren't figures; this one is a compass point, pointing North. Not all the lines have been deciphered for meanings.
You can see part of the tree and a bird or hands here. The tower is along the road and is a viewing tower you can pay to climb to see these lines, but it isn't very good.
This is what the terrain is like all around us. The lines were formed by scraping the top layer of rocks off to leave the lighter ground visible.
It is pretty stark and barren all around here. Nobody really knows why the line figures were drawn.
This baby condor figure was on the side of a mountain/hill.
The funky circles on the left weren't called out as any particular design, but I thought they were kind of weird.
Some figures we could make out from the ground when they were made on the side of a mountain along the roadside.
Figures looked faint, but you can make out a couple of faces on the hillside.
Signs at the viewing points had cleaned up versions so you could reference what you were looking at.
We got a card that outlined the figures we'd see on our flightseeing tour from the air.
Some of the figures we saw. Tour operators have these banners to attract clients. We did see these from the air, too!
The monkey and hummingbird are in this shot, along with our shadow from the plane. We were about 3000 feet up.
More of the hummingbird.
The spiral shows up in this shot. The road below gives you some scale, but these designs were scattered across many miles. We flew around for half an hour to see a dozen of them.
The wings of a condor are barely visible in the lower right.
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