Nazca Lines

On Saturday afternoon, after driving for six hours down the cost and over some of the mountains to get to Nazca, we took a plane ride to see the Nazca Lines. It was difficult to take quality pictures out the window of the airplane. These photos are of the monkey and the hummingbird. The monkey has nine fingers and his tail resembles the design of the aqueducts in Nazca that route the underground water from the Andes to the valley so that they can grow food in this barren desert. This area get very little rain throughout the year. The Nazca Lines are thought to be some sort of agricultural calendar. Some of the straightlines correspond to the summer and winter solstices. There is also one design that is called the astronaut. This has contributed to some theories that the lines are runways for UFO’s and their were aliens in the area. I think the agricultural/astronomical calendar is much more likely. The nine fingers of the monkey represent the nine months that there is no rain in the area, as well as the growing season. The area of these designs covers 500 square kilometers. It covers a large desert area between Palpa and Nazca.