Last Post Before Leaving...

So, this will be my (Peter´s) last blog post before we get home to our cozy house, cats, and convenient high-speed connection...

So last I posted was in Nasca, I think... I´ll start from there... we DID go to the Necropolis, and it was cool... a desert wasteland that was used to bury mummies and the like from the ´pre-incan´people called (by us), the Nazca... Since the tombs had been severely looted, there was a time, not too long ago, when scores and scores of bones and mummies were just scattered about... At this point, most have been collected and assembled in the various excavated tombs which we were able to walk amongs and inspect, but there was still alot of skeletal debris floating around... for example, femurs and skulls were to be seen out on the desert sands not 30 feet from our clearly delineated walkway, and more spooky still, the wind had a funny way of making sure that bits of... stuff... found its way directly into our path... if this sounds ghoulish, I guess it was, sortof, but there was nothing nasty about this place... it was peacefull, and the mummies we saw were in their ´homes´, as it were... Also, they had dreadlocks... BIG dreadlocks, like six feet or more, even if the people were only 4 or five feet tall... it was how the wise-men and Ssaman´s were distinguished...

So we got up very early the next morning to get the first flight out over the lines, but there was a fog... as a result, it looked like we werent going to get a chance to see them. At the last minute, however, the OK was given, and we were whisked out to the Nazca Airport and into a Cesna... Off we went... Of all this little plane´s occupants, it fell to me to nearly vomit from the pilot´s sheer banking maneuvers... I held it in, though...

But the lines... they were amazing... pictures of funny little men, spirals, birds, lizards, whales, monkeys, diembodied hands and more, writ LARGE upon the desert amidst the psychedelic fingerprints of a dried up flood-plane... there were several very clear, full patterns, and many, many more partial ones... And amidst all of this, huge, HUGE triangles, perfectly delineated, of land that had been seemingly flattened, or raised... SO the people who think these were alien landing craft at least have something reasonably like a runway (many actually) to support their claims...

It was wild, and Ev will fill you in on her side of the experience, I´m sure, in addition to providing some of our photos of this, and the, uh... necropolis...

This is getting to be a large post... We took a bus once more to Lima, and this time we stayed by the coast, in the Miraflora area... Honestly, it was a bit of a more low-key few days... our main points of interest were: going to see the new Star Trek movie at the cliffside mall, Trying (me) to no avail to go paragliding, having (and falling in love with) the local raw-fish delicacy cebiche, and taking a trip to the zoo, which like all zoos was a combination of cool (the animals), and appalling (the prison like conditions). I think if given the final say in the matter, I would opt to eliminate zoos... don´t much like the way humans imagine their relation to other beings to be, really, but hey, who needs this blog to go political? Subject dropped...

So we fly in a few hours, and I must mention as a last note that we spent a good bit of time in ´the park of love´, which is a nice little cliffside park, done up in the style of the amazing spanish architect, Antoni Gaudi, thathas a neat statue of a couple kissing... I wholeheartedly approve of monuments to Love... there are too few in the North American cities I´ve been to... It was romantic...

So that´s all from me for now...

Ciao,
-Peter