The mysterious Nasca Lines
backtothefuture | 30. September 2011
The last 1.5 days I was in Nasca, well known for its Nasca Lines, which are parallel and geometrical figures, as well as designs like monkeys, birds, spiders etc. cut into the stony desert more than 2,000 years ago. They are best seen from the air and I arranged a flight for the afternoon. The plane had space for seven passengers and I was brought together with a group of five. Since there is not much else to do in the town I booked a tour to see a pre-inca cemetery a few miles off.
When I showed up at the airfield at 2:30, my flight was due at 3:00, the ground staff told me that the other group is delayed and that I have to wait a little bit. Finally at 4:30 they told me that the flight will not happen this day as the other people didn’t show up and they returned the money to me after a lengthy discussion I had with them as I wanted to do the flight anyway. Since I just came to see the lines from the air I was rather disappointed and somewhat angry how they dealt with me. For seeing them from a tower, the second best alternative, it was already too late as well as for the visit of the museum. And since I was leaving that evening, I already bought the coach ticket, there was no way of seeing them the next day.
Later the evening at the coach station I met some people from the cemetery tour again and while we were waiting we actually had a very nice evening and I relaxed. With the two flight attendants from the Canarian Islands I am actually now in the same hostel in Arequipa. And the Israeli guy said that he wished that what happened to me would have happened to him as the flight wasn’t that great anyway and not worth the money. Yessss!
