Nasca is famous for the Nasca Lines - large lines, shapes and drawings carved into the desert between 900BC and 600AD that only make sense when seen from high up in the air. There are many theories but no consensus on how and why they came to be there.

Apparently Nasca has only three minutes of rain a year and they must have had all of it just as I arrived because the road leading into the town was completely flooded. I got off the bus for five minutes to climb a tower by the roadside that was supposed to give a view of some of the Nasca Lines (it was very disappointing - I could make out anything) and by the time I'd climbed back down the tower the water was a foot deep and I had to wade through it to get back to the bus!

The next morning it was hot, sunny and clear so we boarded little four-man planes for a flight over the desert to see the Nasca Lines properly. It was fantastic - the views were stunning and I could make out lots of the images, including the whale, the astronaut (obviously not originally modelled on an astronaut but it looks a bit like one), the monkey, the dog, the condor, the spider, the hummingbird, the parrot, the hands, the tree and other abstract lines and shapes.

In the afternoon I wandered around town and went with a couple of the other girls to the fancy Nasca Lines Hotel for lunch and a relaxing few hours by the pool.

All the towns I've been to in Peru have lots of Chinese restaurants ('Chifa'); we went to one for dinner and had a huge meal of wonton soup, chicken fried rice and fried wontons for 5 Soles, which is about £1, and it was actually tasty - bargain! I washed it down with some Inca Kola, Peru's national soft drink (made by Coca Cola) - it tastes a bit like Irn Bru but is fluorescent yellow.