After Paracas Kim and I had one more day before we headed to Lima to catch the flight back home, so we headed south to Nazca with Brendan and Laura. Nazca is home to the world famous lines that stretch out over the desert in incredible and unexplicable shapes of things like hummingbirds, spiders, condors, etc. Unfortunately the lines are so big the only way to really appreciate them is from an overflight, which is a bit costly for us just to see lines that we can see in photographs and postcards. So we just spent a bit of time exploring the town with the afternoon that we had.
We roamed the local markets and hung out in the plaza a bit. The only real event we did was go to the planetarium inside a really fancy hotel. The planetarium show was all about the Nazca lines and was about 45 minutes long. It was a nice presentation of some of the theories about why the lines exist, none of which really fits 100%. Overall a nice show, but the music repeats the entire time and starts to get a little grating.
The next day we said our goodbyes to Brendan and Laura with them headed toward Arequipa and us to Lima. We all had a blast together, but I’m soooo excited to be going back to the US.