Incredible and Enigmatic Past - World Heritage Site Unesco
Nasca Lines is located on the south of the city of Ica, the Pan Americana highway cuts through the desert of sand dunes to km 422, before of Nazca city. There are lines were made by removing the iron oxide coated pebbles which cover the surface of the Nazca desert. When the gravel is removed, they contrast with the light-colored earth underneath. There are several hundred simple lines and geometric patterns on the Nazca plateau, as well as over seventy curvilinear animal, insect, and human figures. The area encompassing the lines is nearly 200 square miles, and the largest figures can be nearly 900 feet long. The lines persist due to the extremely dry, windless, and constant climate of the Nazca region: the Nazca desert is one of the driest on Earth and maintains a temperature around 25ºC (77ºF) year round, and the lack of wind has helped keep the lines uncovered to the present day.
The Nazca Lines are gigantic geoglyphs located between Palpa and Nazca desert, there were created by the Nazca culture between 200 BC and 600 AD. There are hundreds of individual figures, ranging in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, and lizards. The Nazca lines cannot be recognized as coherent figures except from the air.
Since their discovery, various theories have been proposed regarding the methods and motivations behind the lines' construction.
OVERFLIGHT NASCA LINES ITINERARY
At 8AM pick up from your hotel or bus station in Nasca and then transfer to the aerodrome Maria Reiche - Informative video about the Nasca civilization (40min).
Fly over the Nasca lines by light Cessna plane (35min): The Nasca lines are located in the desert, a high arid plateau that stretches between Nasca and Palpa on the pampa (a large flat area of southern Peru). The Nasca lines are geoglyphs and geometric line clearings in the Peruvian desert.
The Nasca lines are an enigma. Since their discovery, the Nasca lines have inspired fantastic explanations from ancient gods, a landing strip for returning aliens, a celestial calendar created by the ancient civilization, used for rituals probably related to astronomy, or clans who made up the population and to determine through ritual their economic functions held up by reciprocity and redistribution, or a map of underground water supplies. Flying over the area you can marvel looking at the perfect shape of Animal's, flowers, plants, objects, and anthropomorphic figures of colossal proportions made with well-defined lines.
After flight transfer to the hotel or to the bus station and end service.
FLIGHT OVER THE NAZCA LINES
| DATE | TOUR | COST IN US DOLLARS | |------|------|-------------------| | Any day (Contact us) | OVERFLIGHT NASCA LINES - DAILY AIRCRAFT FLIGHTS | Group Service: 1 to more participants $150 USD | | | | Private Charter: 1 participant $550 USD / 2 participants $650 USD / 3 participants $750 USD / 4 participants $850 USD / 5+ participants $250 USD |
- Prices stated above are without International bank transfer fees and are subject to change without notice, except that prices for an order that has been accepted.
- Organized Groups: We offer private flight over the Nasca lines at any time departure.
- Group size: 4 up to 12 participants Cessna 182.
- BOOK HERE: We highly recommended to book space prior you arrive to Peru.
