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Lima

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Lima is the capital and the largest city in Peru. It is situated in a valley fed by the Rimac river, in the desert coast of the country near its Pacific port of Callao. It has a total population of 7 112 744 (2003 estimate), approximately one-third of which lives in the shanty town settlements around the city. The city is divided into 43 districts, which constitute the Lima Metropolitana (metropolitan Lima) area.

Lima Climate

It has a very humid climate, with a mild summer (temperature rarely goes above 31° celsius), a humid but mild winter (temperature never below 13°, but with 100% humidity) and no rain worth mentioning. As a result, the sky is almost always overcast, and it is only in summer that the sky clears.

The Nazca Lines

The Nazca Lines are geoglyphs (drawings on the ground) located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches 37 miles between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the pampa (a large flat area of southern Peru). They were created during the Nazca_culture in the area, between 200 BC and 600 AD.

The Lines were first spotted when commercial airlines began flying across the Peruvian desert in the 1920s. Passengers reported seeing ‘primitive landing strips’ on the ground below. The Lines were made by removing the iron-oxide coated pebbles which cover the surface of the desert. When the gravel is removed, they contrast with the light color underneath. In this way the lines were drawn as furrows of a lighter color. Off the Pampa, south of the Nasca Lines, archaeologists have now uncovered the lost city of the line-builders, Cahuachi. It was built nearly 2,000 years ago and mysteriously abandoned 500 years later.

Toribio Mejia Xespe, a Peruvian doctor and anthropologist was the first scientist, in 1927, to show interest in what he called "great Incan ceremonial artifacts".

Swiss writer Erich von Däniken suggested in his 1968 book, "Chariots of the Gods", that the lines were built by ancient astronauts as a landing field. But the soft clay soil and layer of brown and black rocks in the Nazca desert would seem an unsuitable site for a landing strip. Joe Nickell has reproduced one of the figures using technology available to the Nazca Indians of the time, and without aerial supervision.

Residents of the local villages say the ancient Indians conducted rituals on these giant drawings to thank the gods, and to ensure that water would continue to flow from the Andes

Chauchillas cemetery

Chauchillas an old cemetery from the Nasca Culture. The graves are actually adobe tombs and some are open for us to see. The mummies are in the fetal position. This represented leaving earth in the same way that they had entered it. They were in “sacks” which were tied at the neck, exposing their heads and they faced east, looking for the sunrise each day. Around them were pots of food and drink for the afterlife. Some of them are believed to be priests or shamans as they had never cut their hair. Their bleached white skulls had 2 to 3 meters hair attached. The tombs would be reopened when a family member died and there was a separate tomb for each generation.

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Hotel Hostel España. Calle Azangaro 105, Central Lima, cerca del Convento de San Francisco (4 Bloks from Plaza de Armas) Telephone: 4285546 Email: info@hotelespanaperu.com Web: http://www.hotelespanaperu.com/	Hostal Los Montes Nazca Adress: Maria Reiche 307 Nazca Ica - Peru Telfax.: (51) 056-522133 Celular: (51) 056-9667132 mailto:hostalsanisidro@hotmail.com mns : wmontes_nazca@hotmail.com
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