Peru, Nazca Lines

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Airflield for aliens, message to gods or portrayal of shamonic journeys? No one knows why they're here, who drew them or what for. But they're impressive whatever the reason, particularly as they were created over 2000-years ago and can only be seen from above. Flying over them was blooming marvellous. One moment all you see is desert then a hummingbird appears, or a monkey or a dog. Then there's the geometric lines, which are everywhere forming giant scraches across the plains. At first it all seemed smaller than expected but then we swooped closer and had an Alice in Wonderland moment as everything went big. The condor´s the size of a football pitch, one trapezoid would fill more than three and the parrot was ginormous, a heftier offspring of gigantic and enormous. And being in an old skool 4-seater plane (inc. pilot) was like stepping into a scene from Indiana Jones. Especially when the pilot gave us updates through headphones, 'Indy the Russians are coming'...ok maybe not, but in my head the theme tune was playing. [Clare]
ps. You might need to click into the images to see the drawings properly.