Hello hello,

I am currently writing for Arequipa, Peru´s 2nd most important city on day 8 of our trip. Just wanted to update you all on the ongoings of the past few days picking up from the flight over the Nazca lines.

Day 4 continued...

So on saturday morning we headed to Nazca´s mini airport which contained to our suprise only very mini planes. And we were going up in one! 3 of us from the groups squeezed into one of these planes with a pilot and one other couple, noticing nervously that it simply said on the side ´sky wagon´. This didnt fill us with confidence! We took off on our short flight which would take us over all of the nazca line shapes created by the pre inca nazca people, for what reason the experts still dont know. Even so they were really quite spectacular. Stretching over a huge plain surrounded by mountains we saw about 12 or so different shapes including the famous hummingbird, spider and monkey along with the locally known astronaut (!), dog, whale etc. We did get some really good photos but still cant quite put these up. However, despite the fantastic view the flight it self was reallllyyy bumpy as the pilot tipped the plane down to each side to allow photos, whilst circling! It is safe to say that i dont think this flight cured Tom of his dislike of flying and it certainly did not encourage either of us to climb back into any kind of small aircraft any time soon though. The lines were absolutely amazing to see but we were definitely glad to have our feet back on the ground afterwards.

The rest of the day was free so we made use of the pool that our lovely hotel had and luckily the sun was out. We then packed up and made our way to the bus station in preparation for our overnight bus journey off 9 hours, to Arequipa in the South.