So about 2000 years ago these Nasca people decided to make big drawings into the sand in the desert. The lines were drawn by basically clearing stones out of the sand and they used these lines to form massive shapes or objects (such as a dog, a whale, a monkey, a spider, a tree, etc). These mysterious desert lines were known for quite some time, but it was only in the 1920’s, when commercial airliners began to fly overhead, that they noticed the lines actually formed different shapes and pictures. We took a 30 minute flight over them and got a great view of them (for all you skydivers, we flew in a Cessna 206 WITH SEATS AND A DOOR!)
Above is a photo of a large man drawn into a mountain (waving his hand saying "hello").
A monkey!
A spider in the sand (left), and (right) a bus shelter with a spider symbol recreated. These images are recreated all over the town.
It only works sometimes- didn't work with monkey and waving man
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