Panamerican Highway heading to Nazca |
Panamerican Highway heading to Nazca |
City of Nazca, Peru |
Main square of Nazca |
Restaurant Plaza Mayor, Calle Bolognesi, Nazca |
Downtown Nazca |
Downtown Nazca |
Paredones Inn, Nazca |
Charley's Cebicheria, Nazca |
Casa Naturista Chiclayana, Nazca |
Public art in the form of the Nazca lines |
Chinese Restaurant, Nazca |
Nazca line art on a sidewalk in Nazca |
Plaza Mayor, Nazca |
Museo Didactico Antonini, Nazca |
Museo Didactico Antonini, Nazca |
Pottery, Museo Didactico Antonini, Nazca |
Pottery vase with fish, Museo Didactico Antonini, Nazca |
Female figure, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Clay vase with a colorful face, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Nazca Pottery, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Bronze weapon, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Head of a mummy, Museo Didactico Antonini, Nazca |
Nazca skull with rope through a hole |
Nazca pottery, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Animal shaped pottery, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Nazca Pottery, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Nazca Pottery, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Nazca pottery fragments, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Nazca pottery, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Nazca pottery, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Nazca pottery, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Reproduction of a Nazca tomb, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Nazca pottery with a face, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Nazca pottery, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Nazca pottery, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Nazca pottery, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Nazca pottery, Museo Didactico Antonini |
Ancient irrigation canal behind the Museo Didactico Antonini |
Model of the Nazca lines behind the Museo Didactico Antonini |
Model of the Nazca lines behind the Museo Didactico Antonini |
Model of the Nazca lines behind the Museo Didactico Antonini |
Necropolis of Chauchilla, south of Nazca |
7 km sandy dirt road from the Panamericana to Chauchilla |
Christian cemetary on the road to Chauchilla |
Modern Christian cemetary along the road to Chauchilla |
Chauchilla |
Chaucilla |
Mountain by Chauchilla |
The human remains of the pre-Inca Nazca people are around 1000 years old |
Each skeleton sits on the floor of a deep pit |
Skull with a patch of hair left |
Chauchilla Cemetary, Nazca |
The remains had been scattered about but were rearranged in 1997 when the area was finally protected |
Chauchilla Cemetary, Nazca |
Chauchilla Cemetary, Nazca |
It's a bit of a gruesome place |
Chauchilla Cemetary, Nazca |
Burial pit, Chauchilla Cemetary, Nazca |
Burial pit, Chauchilla Cemetary, Nazca |
Mummy in the museum at Chauchilla |
Mummy of a child, Chaucilla museum |
The Panamerican Highway leading north out of Nazca |
Lineas y Geoglifos de Nasca, Peru |
The Nazca lines are for the most part unrecognizable from ground level |
Palpa has its own set of lines, though much less famous than those at Nazca |
Side road leading into the mountains near Palpa |
Palpa, Peru |
Panamerican Highway, Palpa, Peru |
Rio Grande Valley, Palpa, Peru |
Agriculture in the Rio Grande valley near Palpa |
Palms along the Panamericana, Palpa |
Palm grove near Palpa |
Palm with the green fields of the Rio Grande Valley near Palpa |
Rio Grande Valley near Palpa, Peru |
Panamerican Highway leading from Palpa to Ica |
Mountains northwest of Palpa, Peru |
Modern day "Nazca Lines" along the Panamerican Highway |
The broad flat plain between Palpa and Ica |
Panamerican Highway southeast of Ica |
Desert landscape near Ica |