Nazca to Puerto Inka

Been off the grid for a few days... sorry for the delay in travel photos! I don't know where to start, its been so incredible!  Traveling from Lima, I was grateful to be in a motorcar. Traffic on the Pan-American highway is crazy! We followed the coastline thru small towns, very congested with people and vehicles. Its so humbling traveling here, it appears like the people's only concerns are how to survive another day, yet very friendly to new faces.

Arriving in Nazca at the hotel was quite a surprise. After hours of dry, dusty roads and vegetation starving for water the hotel was like an oasis in the middle of the desert.

The hotel originated as a convent, that was then turned into a hotel. There were museum quality artifacts collected by the families that depicted Peruvian history. Beautiful ancient trees, bougainvillea vines that had trunks as large as trees. Exotic birds, a llama and small guanaco milling around the lawn. One of our guides, Alain has made a new friend!

This "tree" is a portulaca tree which is common in Florida typically grown as a bush... one of my mothers favorite plants..

Next morning off to Nazca to fly over the Nazca lines discovered around 1920's even though it is believed they were created between 400 and 650 AD by the Nazca culture. They are a series of ancient geoglyphs in the shapes of animals and lines: monkeys, hummingbirds, spiders, fish, and a figure called "the alien"..

More to come....!  Afternoon ride on motorbikes.... Finally!!!