We arrived in Nazca at lunchtime. Tonight I decided to go in a tent as i wanted to try the new ones out. We put the tents up while people prepared lunch. It was a nice sunny day so we sat on the grass and ate our sandwiches. Our guide arrived just as we finished lunch. He was taking us to the Chauchilla Cemetry, here we would see mummies older than 2000 years old. Nazca is a desert and it only rains there 2 houras a year. It is because of this the mummies are still intact. First we saw a mummy in a glass case of a man. He still had hair and nails. There was also a baby mummy still wrapped in cotton. There was even one of a parrot. Next he took us outside to show us the tombs in the ground. There were rectangle holes in the ground made out of bricks with a mummy sat in the middle. These mummies were just skulls, no skin left. They also had other skulls on the floor and pottery and other items. One tomb had guinea pigs in. He showed us around 5 or 6 tombs. Some had more than one mummy in. Some of the mummies had really long dreadlock hair. They looked like something out of Pirates of the Carribean.

After we had seen the mummies we went back to the hotel and waited for dinner to be ready. It was nachos, yum! We watched a film in the reception before going to sleep in the tent. We didnt haveto get up very early the next day and as a bonus Matt brought me and Nikkie breakfast in bed (or tent). Putting the tent down was quite a challenge. I think we ammused some of the boys trying to get it back in the bag!

Tents down and packed away we set off to see the nazca lines from a viewing tower. The Nazca lines are shapes or pictures drawn in the desert sand that can be seen from above. We payed 2 soles to climb the tower. At the top we could see what was supposed to be a tree upside down and on the other side something that is supposed to be a pair of hands. They were a bit unimpressive from the tower but maybe they look better from a plane, flying overhead. We got back in the truck and carried on to Huacachina which is where we were going to do sand boarding.