From Cusco I took an overnight bus (14 hours) to Nazca where the mysterious Nazca Lines are. This was (thankfully) my last crossing of the Andes and unlike the Bolivian buses, it stayed just above 0 degrees in the bus. I awoke just before the bus got to Nazca and when I got off was completely overtaken with people pushing hotels etc. This was the worst I've had in SA (although Peru has been pretty bad) and they even decided to follow me to a restaurant for breakfast (it was 7am). That was the last straw and I politely told them to 'relocate' and went and bought a bus ticket to Lima that night rather that stay. After breakfast I arranged a flight over the Nazca Lines. The lines are really only visable from the air and there's a number of companies that will take you up over the lines in a small 3 seater plane. The lines are a series of huge geoglyphs and geometrical lines and shapes that were made from moving sun-darkened stones from the desert. There's plenty of theories on them but they believe they were made between 900BC and AD600 by the Nazca people for religious reasons (what else). These photos are stolen as I'm sure mine are nowhere near clear enough to see much. I was concentrating more on keeping my breakfast down after half an hour of bumping around and banking sharply to see the lines in the tiny little plane. At least we were safe if anything went wrong, as I was in the co-pilots seat. So I'm hanging out in this stinkin' town for the afternoon and then getting a bus at 11pm tonight to the infamous Lima. A lot of travellers, and more disturbingly, Peruvian's have warned me of the dangers of Lima. When people start comparing it with Johannesburg and Mexico City I'm thinking it might be a city to stay alert in. I'm pretty sure that Miraflores, outside of the centre, will be tame enough for me though.