My new appreciation for very large airplanes...

After a few days in my little desert oasis at Huachina, I headed off to Nazca to take the flight over the world famous Nazca Lines. The lines, built by the Nazca people around 900BC are spread over 500 sq. kilometers of desert and form a network of over 800 lines of geometric, plant and animal figures. To this day, noone knows why the Nazca people built these HUGE figures that can only be seen from the sky...


The Nazca lines are amazing...and I might have enjoyed them more if the entire time during the flight I didn´t feel like I was going to:
A. barf
B. Go crashing down to my death in the desert below

Dear Large Passenger Airplanes Like the Boeing 747,

I will never again complain about the little bit of turbelence I experience on your flights. I will even be happy to sit in a row wedged between two very large people...if only for the fact that I love that you can hold more than two people. But please, PLEASE don´t ever make me ride with your baby brother again. He is crazy. He flips around in the air and plays hop-scotch over the clouds. He tilts sideways like he is trying to pour me out and see what happens. He is obnoxiously loud. I do not like him.

Loooooooove,
Sarah

Baby Brother

Up, up, up we go in our little 4 person plane!OK. I was able to get my composure and snap a few shots....although not very good ones. But see if you can spot the Nazca Lines!

Alien man.















Spider















Big Hands (this is actually what they call this one! It was my favorite!)

Monkey! Can you spot him with his curly tail? (on the left)

After the flight we went to visit the Cuachillo Cemetery. A huge Nazca burial ground in the desert that has mummies that are perfectly preserved because of the extremely arid climate.
They were placed in the tombs in a squatting position, so that they could continue to recieve offerings in the afterlife. The strangest part, is how long their hair is!!! See it wrapping around like one big dread?!