Some 48km northeast of Pisco, and 327km south of Lima, the ruins at TAMBO COLORADO were originally a fortified administrative centre, probably built by the Chincha before being adapted and used as an Inca coastal outpost.
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Huacachina
febrero 7th, 2011 
admin According to myth, the lagoon at HUACACHINA, about 5km southwest of Ica, was created when a princess stripped off her clothes to bathe. When she looked into mirror and saw that a male hunter was watching her she dropped the mirror, which turned into the lagoon.
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.
