The Lines are undoubtedly one of the world’s biggest archaeological mysteries and bring many thousands of visitors every year to Peru’s South Coast. The greatest expert on and student of these mammoth desert designs was Maria Reiche, who escaped from Nazi Germany to Peru in the 1930s and worked at Nazca almost continuously from 1946 until her death in 1998.
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Ruins of Cahuachi
febrero 5th, 2011 
admin The ancient centre of Nazca culture, Cahuachi lies to the west of the Nazca Lines, about 30km from Nazca and some 20km from the Pacific. All of the landscape between Nazca town and the distant coastline is a massive, very barren desertscape – almost always hot, dry and sunny.
Chauchilla Cemetery
febrero 5th, 2011 admin Some 27km southeast of Nazca along the Panamerican Highway to Km 464.20, then out along a dirt road beside the Poroma riverbed, Chauchilla Cemetery certainly rewards the effort it takes to visit. Once you reach the atmospheric site you realize how considerable a civilization the riverbank must have maintained in the time of the Nazca culture.
Nazca Lines
febrero 5th, 2011 admin One of the great mysteries of South America, the Nazca Lines are a series of animal figures and geometric shapes, none of them repeated and some up to 200m in length, drawn across some five hundred square kilometers of the bleak, stony Pampa de San Jose or, more simply, the Nazca plain.
