Today was unfortunately a day of chaos. Having driven down to Nazca the pervious day in preparation for our activity of the day, a tourist flight over the Nazca Lines archeological site, we awoke to find the area shrouded in the thin fog, which refused to clear until around 09:30. Now our flight was supposed to depart at 09:30, but unfortunately it was pushed back due to the delayed flights earlier in the day, and in the end we did not make it up into the sky until 11:30, wasting two hours of the day at the airport.
In the end it was worth the wait, with the half-hour flight over the Nazca Lines being really excellent, giving you the chance to appreciate something simply not possible from the ground. As it was also my first time in a light aircraft I was a bit nervous, but I have to say I enjoyed it a lot more than the regular commercial flights I have taken. The landing was a bit dodgy but otherwise it was good fun. The Nazca Lines themselves were impressive to see, even though we were provided with very little information about what they actually meant.
Once the flight had concluded, we headed back to the hotel and began the four-hour drive back up to Paracas. It was a long drive through the desert with very little happening. We finally arrived in Paracas at 16:30 and set off for a short walk around the harbour that produced only the commoner birds we had encountered on the previous days.
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