Out of Nazca...our last bus!!!!.....
This is our last official bus ride on our trip around South America!!
We have travelled thousand and thousands of Kilometers on buses in South America. From Lima we will fly to Bogota and then hang out for a few weeks around Colombia seeing some friends and family. This sort of marks the end of our trip around South America. We'll be back in NYC on June 24.
By the way the flight over the Nazca lines was in a 5 passenger Cesna and was worse than riding a ricketty roller coaster with no seatbelt, traveling at 200 miles an hour on a crumbling wooden track! The Cesna moved in the wind like a paper plane and after a few minutes the fun was over, imagine going for another 35 minutes!!! For what seemed like an eternity the pilot was literally flying the plane sideways on each side so that we could all look below at the gigantic lines below! Honestly the first time that I have ever felt motion sickness! Paula did much better that she thought she would and never had to use the plastic bag she held onto for the whole flight!! In the end the Nazca lines was interesting but I had unfortunately very high expectations of this place and the Lines did not live up to them...bummer.
One thing that I would suggest if anybody does this is to learn about the history, origination, theories and then request that some scale be used to put everything into perspective. From hundreds of meters in the air it is literally impossible to really appreciate the expanse and precision of the lines because they don't seem so big since all you see is sand and rocks for hundreds and hundreds of miles around. We sort of jumped in before knowing more and only afterwards did we realize how impressive and huge they were...by then though we had no desire to go up in another plane. Bottom line...they are cool but see a video or something before hand AND don't eat anything before the flight!
The bus gets into Lima in a couple hours, later.
Sent by Jeffrey via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
We have travelled thousand and thousands of Kilometers on buses in South America. From Lima we will fly to Bogota and then hang out for a few weeks around Colombia seeing some friends and family. This sort of marks the end of our trip around South America. We'll be back in NYC on June 24.
By the way the flight over the Nazca lines was in a 5 passenger Cesna and was worse than riding a ricketty roller coaster with no seatbelt, traveling at 200 miles an hour on a crumbling wooden track! The Cesna moved in the wind like a paper plane and after a few minutes the fun was over, imagine going for another 35 minutes!!! For what seemed like an eternity the pilot was literally flying the plane sideways on each side so that we could all look below at the gigantic lines below! Honestly the first time that I have ever felt motion sickness! Paula did much better that she thought she would and never had to use the plastic bag she held onto for the whole flight!! In the end the Nazca lines was interesting but I had unfortunately very high expectations of this place and the Lines did not live up to them...bummer.
One thing that I would suggest if anybody does this is to learn about the history, origination, theories and then request that some scale be used to put everything into perspective. From hundreds of meters in the air it is literally impossible to really appreciate the expanse and precision of the lines because they don't seem so big since all you see is sand and rocks for hundreds and hundreds of miles around. We sort of jumped in before knowing more and only afterwards did we realize how impressive and huge they were...by then though we had no desire to go up in another plane. Bottom line...they are cool but see a video or something before hand AND don't eat anything before the flight!
The bus gets into Lima in a couple hours, later.
Sent by Jeffrey via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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