Look closely at this picture and you will see the drawing of a monkey with a long curling tail. The second drawing shows a humming bird facing upwards.
This is the famous Nazca lines which I flew over this morning on a little Cessna 6 seater plane. We saw a number of drawings including a whale, triangles, trapezoid, astronaut, a pair of hands, dog, monkey, condor, tree, spider, humming bird, Alcatraz and parrot.
All these patterns can only be seen from above, and yet they were made by Pre Inca Nazca culture between 300 BC and 700 AD. Amazing huh?
Apparently scientist are still studying the drawings and coming to their own conclusion. We saw a video which portrays the lines as a way in appeasing the Gods to rain on the region, as Nazca is an arid, dry and desolated area full of sand dunes. In fact, the highest sand dune in the world is here, sitting at 2078 metres!
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