Suffering slightly from the night before the next stop was Nazca, site of the 2000 year old lines that the Nazca made for reasons unknown, basically. Still they were pretty cool so we were glad they were there.
There's not much to say about Nazca itself, a town surviving on tourism money and running flights over the lines (you can only see the lines from the air, because they're so big). They helpfully told us how all the flight operators had got together and decided to fix the price of flights and stop undercutting each other, to ensure good standards and safety. We were glad they were looking out for our interests.
After waiting in the airport for hours we get to see the tiny planes everyone gets to fly in - smallest plane I'd ever been in. It took off and landed fine, so alls well that ends well. Seriously though, they did seem safe enough - they checked every plane between flights and then they flew like crazy in very tight circles around and around the lines so that everyone got to see everything.
Some pictures of the Nazca lines below, hard to give a scale but they were big (although not as big as we thought). You can see the astronaut, the monkey (with famously curly tail), the ant and the hummingbird. There were lots more, and most of the lines are just that - lines leading like roads from one side of the desert to the other rather than shapes or pictures. But they make quite boring photos so I skipped them...
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