Nasca Lines & Inca Ruins of Peru

We visited the famous Nasca Lines. Nobody Knows for sure why or how these lines were made. They are lines is the middle of the desert that form pictures of animals like Monkeys, Spiders and birds. Trees and people (that resemble aliens?????)  The Pictures they form are huge and most of them you have to see from an airplane or an elevated view. The Lines have been there for hundreds of years and since they are in some of the driest deserts in the world rain is not a problem.

Some believe the lines were put there by there by the ancient Nasca People for Ceremonial purposes. Others believe that they were a form of irrigation While some believe, the only way they could have gotten there and because you can only see them from the air, that aliens had to have drawn them with their laser beams!?!?!?!?!? You decided.

It is hard to make out what these are in the photos but it gives you an example of the size and length of the lines and the desert they are formed in.

So far we have not wanted to spend the 200 dollars it cost to go see Machu Picchu.  However there are so so many different ruin all around the Cusco area.  The Valley right over a pass from Cusco is called the “Sacred Valley”.  Ruins are everywhere and lots of them are free of charge and since we have motorcycles we have access and the freedom to check all of them out. Most of these are not full of tourist so they have a more peaceful feeling.

 

The Incas were hard working people and they knew how to build functioning farms in high elevations and food storage for storing produce and food all year long. Amazing structures made of huge boulders that seem to just fit together perfectly like a puzzle.                                                                                Riding the ruins. Cause we do what we want.

Here we have some Peruvian mountain bikers.  This day was presidential election day and all the villagers dress up in there best clothes to come out and vote.