Nazca
Tony and his speedos went for a dip in the Pacific before we left Puerto Inca, and got knocked off his feet by a wave - but I'm not sure if that really counts as an early morning swim!? The parrot was sorry to see him go, mournfully calling 'ciao, papa, ciao' and giggling insanely as we left.
Our first stop today was Chauchila necropolis, where they have excavated huge numbers of Nazca mummies and skeletons, which now sit around in their funereal bundles in their open tombs, looking pretty weird. Most of these are about 2,000 years old, and were initially discovered by grave robbers about 60 years ago. They stole any valuable trinkets, but left the mummies lying around in the sun, so their hair got a bit bleached, but they were otherwise fine!
Many of the mummies were decapitated, as the Nascas had enemies who took trophy heads, but there are also a lot more skulls than bodies on display. 
The most complete mummy sits cross legged in a glass case in the office, along with a bowl of perfectly preserved 2,000 year old maize, which was buried with him, and a stripy bag woven from alpaca wool, to keep his coca leaves in. Nasca priests used to grow their hair very long, and some of them have dreadlocks 3m long! Amazing, as the people were barely 5ft tall.
Our guide was a very informative archeology graduate, who has had some photographs published in National Geographic of mummies he discovered a couple of years ago. We had lunch, at a discreet distance from the mummies, our last 'Frank' roadside lunch of the tour!
Next we went to our hotel, near Nazca, down an even bumpier, more potholed road than the one to Puerto Inca, and this one had the additional hazard of low overhead power lines which were scraping along the roof of the truck. We just had time to spray the room with mosquito repellant, and it was time to go to the little airport in Nazca for our flight over the mysterious Nazca lines.
The airport was incredibly strict - we even needed our passports for the 35 minute flight, and were given boarding passes. We had to go through security scanners, and also had to be weighed, which was a bit embarrassing, as I discovered that although my clothes are feeling looser, it must be because they've stretched! We were divided into two groups, of five and four, and went up in two separate little Cessna planes, so everyone had a window seat.
The Nazca lines are incredible! We saw all the well known images, like the spaceman, the spider, the monkey, and the hummingbird, but also hundreds of others, and all the geometric shapes, and parallel lines. The landscape looks like a sea-bed, where all the water has evaporated, or an enormous dry riverbed. You can see all the wavy lines on the ground where the water once flowed. The plane banked and rolled so we could see the images from both sides of the plane, but luckily nobody got sick! Our co-pilot flew the plane for quite a bit of the time, which was a bit unnerving, as he only looked about 16! But we landed safely, and then waited for the second plane to come in. They were all fine too, and hopefully between all of us we'll have a lot of good photos.
We had to go back into town for dinner and went in 3 taxis, so we've finally had a ride in one of the ubiquitous little yellow Korean cars that everyone drives here. The driver was saying that they are brilliant, and it certainly seems that they are pretty robust, as they don't break when driven through massive potholes at about 40 miles an hour!...........Goodnight