Flight to the past...

This was the size plane I rode in....and the reason I got a little woozie!

This morning I took a flight into the past...
I arrived mid-morning in Nazca, Peru - Home of the Nazca Lines. The Nazca lines are these crazy drawings in the desert. No one really knows why they are there or how they got there. There are many theories explaining their exsistance ranging from alien landing pads to underground irrigation ditch markings. But there is no general theory of explination that is agreed upon. So, I (and you) get to think whatever we want about why they are there!

This morning we took about a half-hour flight to see the images outside of Nazca (there are also lines in Palpa). And they were just as amazing and incredible as you might imagine. They were a little smaller than I thought they would be, but still impressively large!

The plane did a lot of leaning to each side to give us the best view possible - but mostly just gave us all the tummy shakes. I was very glad to have seen them, but the motion-sickness didnt have me lining up for another flight opportunity!

Here are a few of the designs

The spider

The Monkey - my favorite!

For more information about the Nazca Lines - visit wikipedia.
These are also not my pictures, I will try to get mine up soon!