Day tour and night bus to Cusco

Day tour and night bus to Cusco

Nasca, Peru, South America

There’s not a lot to do here in Nazca, besides flying over the lines, so today was a pretty quiet one. I hung out at the hostel for a bit, went for a walk around the town center (which was very short), and then came back to the hostel to chill. I checked out in the morning, but my night bus wasn’t leaving until 9:30pm, so Jose said I could just hang out in the lounge and relax. He came to me at about 2pm and said there was a tour going at 4pm for two hours and there was an open spot. It was supposed to be 50 soles, but I told him I didn’t want to spend that much, so he came down to 30 soles for me, including everything. That was a deal!

I met two other travelers on the tour, Karin from Holland, and Daniel from Germany. They are both traveling on their own, but met in Lima and have been traveling together for a few days now. We checked out the aqueducts of Cantalloc, which was a pretty ingenious system made hundreds of years ago to get water from the mountains down into the city where they get virtually no rain.

We went from the aqueducts to El Telar which is some more Nazca lines that are visible from about 100m up a hill. El Telar means “The Loom”, and the lines were supposed to show the lines on a loom, and the thread going through it. On the side of the lines were some spirals that were meant to represent the balls of yarn. It looked so basic, and small to me, that it was less than impressive. The guide, Arturro, told us that these lines were 2,000 years old, but to be honest, these could have been made by school children about a week ago, I wouldn’t know any different.

We left the lines and went to Los Paredones, which was an old city that was thousands of years old. A couple of different civilizations had lived there, and you could see the difference in the materials used to build the walls of the buildings. We were not allowed to walk in the ruins, so instead we took a walk up a massive hill. You could tell Arturro does this all the time because he nearly ran up the hill and left us all weezing behind him.

It was a pretty good view of the city of Nazca from the top of the hill, but the city isn’t that impressive, anyway. It was tougher to walk down the hill than it was to go up it, but we all made it down safely, and then headed back into town. I told Karin and Daniel how good my dinner at Mamashana was, so we all went and got dinner there. We all got the Aji de Gallina and it was a roaring success. I had recommended it so I was a little worried that someone might not like it, but that wasn’t an issue.

We split up after dinner and I went back to the hostel to chill for a couple hours and then we all met up at the Oltursa bus terminal. We just all happened to be getting the same bus from Nasca to Cusco, so at least I’ll know people when we get there. I’m on the bus now settling in for this 15 hour overnight ride. I’m just hoping to get some sleep to pass some time. We’ll see how that goes…

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