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Lake Titicaca is a lake located on the border of Peru and Bolivia. It ...
Updated: Sep 09, 2010 11:54am PST
Colca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River in southern Peru. It is l ...
Updated: Jul 18, 2010 9:14pm PST
We originally set out to hike Machu Picchu in early 2010, but that was ...
Updated: Oct 28, 2010 1:37pm PST
![Nazca Lines : The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert of Peru. They have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The high, arid plateau stretches more than 80 kilometres (50 mi) between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana. Although some local geoglyphs resemble Paracas motifs, scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 400 and 650 AD.[1] The hundreds of individual figures range in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks or orcas, llamas, and lizards.
The lines are shallow designs made in the ground by removing the ubiquitous reddish pebbles and uncovering the whitish ground beneath. Hundreds are simple lines or geometric shapes; more than seventy are designs of animal, bird, fish or human figures. The largest figures are over 200 metres (660 ft) across. Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs, but they generally ascribe religious significance to them, as they were major works that required vision, planning and coordination of people to achieve. - Wikipedia](/photos/random.mg?AlbumID=14444412&AlbumKey=JjSskx&Size=Tiny&rand=6899 "Nazca Lines : The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert of Peru. They have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The high, arid plateau stretches more than 80 kilometres (50 mi) between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana. Although some local geoglyphs resemble Paracas motifs, scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 400 and 650 AD.[1] The hundreds of individual figures range in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks or orcas, llamas, and lizards.
The lines are shallow designs made in the ground by removing the ubiquitous reddish pebbles and uncovering the whitish ground beneath. Hundreds are simple lines or geometric shapes; more than seventy are designs of animal, bird, fish or human figures. The largest figures are over 200 metres (660 ft) across. Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs, but they generally ascribe religious significance to them, as they were major works that required vision, planning and coordination of people to achieve. - Wikipedia")
The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca ...
Updated: Jan 26, 2011 2:27pm PST
Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Pikchu) – "Old Mountain", is a pre-Columb ...
Updated: Jan 10, 2011 9:50am PST
