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Nazca is a desert town mostly famous for the Nazca lines, stylised pictures of various beasts carved into the desert about 2000 years and only visible from the air

Larger \| Full Size	Our plane and pilot The Nazca lines are only visible from the air, and so we took a short 30 minute scenic flight in this plane
Larger \| Full Size	A whale with a trophy head They did like their trophy heads back then, and this whale is carrying one
Larger \| Full Size	astronaut They call this the astronaut, although really hes just a funny looking bronze-age dude carved in a hill
Larger \| Full Size	Condor
Larger \| Full Size	Dog
Larger \| Full Size	Hummingbird
Larger \| Full Size	Monkey
Larger \| Full Size	Parrot
Larger \| Full Size	Tree and ape
Larger \| Full Size	Nazca Aqueducts Nazca is a desert, but underground there is a great deal of water flowing from the Andes. The Nazca people survived by digging for water, and building a complex system of Aqeducts to channel it to where they wanted it. This is a section of the Aqueduct exposed at a museum in Nazca town.