Saturday, 30 August 2014
In the morning I went to the airport to overfly the Nasca lines! I sat in a Cessna 201 with 3 other people. It is really a small plane but just nice for the 30 minute trip. I did not eat breakfast after what my fellow travellers told me about the winding path of the flight, but it was not as bad as I thought it would be. I am more comfortable with land and air than I will ever be with water. My camera refused to work properly at that precise moment, so I did not have many good pictures of the lines. And as usual, as with the Great Pyramids of Giza, I thought the lines would be bigger, it looked small from the plane. This is caused by over dramatisation by the television. Because I am also a blind bat, I did not see all the figures. I managed to see the whale, monkey, dog, condor, spider and hummingbird only. But the important thing is that I got to see the lines with my own eyes! I am happy and can now really die in peace.
In the morning I went to the airport to overfly the Nasca lines! I sat in a Cessna 201 with 3 other people. It is really a small plane but just nice for the 30 minute trip. I did not eat breakfast after what my fellow travellers told me about the winding path of the flight, but it was not as bad as I thought it would be. I am more comfortable with land and air than I will ever be with water. My camera refused to work properly at that precise moment, so I did not have many good pictures of the lines. And as usual, as with the Great Pyramids of Giza, I thought the lines would be bigger, it looked small from the plane. This is caused by over dramatisation by the television. Because I am also a blind bat, I did not see all the figures. I managed to see the whale, monkey, dog, condor, spider and hummingbird only. But the important thing is that I got to see the lines with my own eyes! I am happy and can now really die in peace.
I am always intrigued by mystery, which is why I think I really loved going to see the Nasca lines. No one knows what it's for, who made it, and why it hasn't eroded after all these years, the lines being only 10 cm deep. A German scientist names Maria Reiche dedicated most of her life to studying the Nasca lines but till today, no one has absolute answers. Some scientists believed it to be some sort of calendar for the summer and winter solstice but I really don't know.
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