
Peruvian Coast
To see the Nazca Lines at their best, you have to take a plane. Small, four-seater aircraft leave every half-hour. To allow everyone a perfect view, the plane turns once to the left and once to the right while overflying the giant geoglyphs. They were created by removing the top layer of reddish-brown pebbles and thereby revealing a yellow-grey subsoil. In the arid climate of the Sechura desert the lines have remained undisturbed. As they were hardly visible from the ground (they can be seen from the foothills though) they went unnoticed for a long time. […]