The Nazca Lines
Pampas de Jumana
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If you think crop circles are weird, you haven’t seen the Nazca Lines in Peru’s Nazca Desert. A bizarre series of geometric patterns, spirals and perfectly straight lines (some 40 miles long) carved into the sand in a 400sq mile area in the arid desert between the Andes and the Pacific in southwest Peru, they remain one of the most baffling archeological mysteries on earth. From ground level the patterns appear to simply be a jumble of crossing lines. But when seen from the air, they form stunningly accurate drawings of monkeys, whales, snakes, spiders, lizards, flowers and human-like owls - some more than two football fields in size. Created by the now extinct Nazca Indians between 300 BC and 800 AD, they were only rediscovered in 1920s, but 80 years on they still baffle scientists, archaeologists and astronomers today. Perhaps some things are best left to mystery. The best way to see them is on chartered daily flights from Nazca town: from the air the ancient drawings seem like messages from a lost civilization.
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