We were picked up at 7am to be taken to the local airport for our flight over the famous Nazca Lines. These figures have to be seen from the air to be fully appreciated and there were plenty of gringos at the airport waiting for their turn, even at such an early hour.
The ancient Nazca people made the lines (figures of things like animals and humans) by removing stones exposing the ground underneath, the limestone in the earth hardened and changed colour to leave a permanent display (unless they are damaged, yes Greenpeace we mean you).
We flew in a light plane over the lines for about 20 minutes or so, we did notice though that the Pan American highway goes right through at least one of the figures.
After the flight we had some hours to fill until our bus trip to Lima in the afternoon, so we caught a taxi to the Puquios, still functioning aqueducts with spiral holes and water flowing through the bases, bringing water into town.
We arrived into Lima quite late and as we decided to stay the first night near the bus station, the only open restaurants we could find were Chinese (called "chifas" in Peru) - so we had our first taste of Chinese food in South America. It wasn't quite the same as chinese food back home, but was still pretty good, which was a bit of a surprise.
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