10th May 2005 We got up at 6am this morning, no agua caliente!!!! (thats hot water) I have had a hot shower for days!!!! Anyway, we got picked up at 7am and we headed out along with a guy called Tim (Dutch) to the Nazca airport. We all climbed on board or a small Cessna 172 plane (4 seater) and took off over the Nazca Lines, they were harder to see than I imagined but when you saw them, they are just out of this world, I can't believe these lines and geoglyphs can only be seen from the air! Some believe that they for the Aliens, others astology. Apparently in the month of July you caný fly over the lines due some mystical magic in the lines, it apparently plays havoc with the planes instruments! There is alot of Iron in the land which may just have something to do with it but not sure why its every July? We fly for 35 minutes and flying its self was fun, I even got a certificate to say I have flown over the Nazca Lines. In the afternoon we we headed out to the Cenetery of Chauchilla, about 30km outside of Nazca town. This site is bascically a huge expanse of desert, used as burial sites. The tombs are under the ground and many have been tomb robbed over the years, for the dead persons clothes. Now the government have a preservation order on the land and now 12 tombes have been excervated for the tourists and you aren't allowed to walk over the rest. But the site is littered with human bones and pieces of pottery (Ali.B's haven!) you can't help but walk on many of them. (WARNING.....again there will be some photo's, so don't let the kids see) On the way out, I saw the girl who had the sand boarding accident, unfortunately we were in the car (moving) but she was up and walking and smiling, but her wrist was in a cast (at least I didn't kill her!!!). We headed back into town and went to a pottery museum and gold miners, the typical touristy sites! In the evening we went to Maria Reiche Plantarium for a lecture on the Nazca Lines, she was German Mathamatian and was one of the first people to discover the Nazca Lines, she devoted 40yrs of her life to the lines and believed they are all linked in with stars, apparently you can see the 'Monkey'& 'Spider'Geoglyph in the stars? I personally couldn't see it. Then had a look through a telescpoe at Saturn and Jupiter! I also didn't realise you can see the plough here in Peru, its just upside down!