Nazca

I'm happy to say that we had a decent breakfast buffet today. Best one so far. Jose picked us up and took us to the little airport for the Nazca lines flyover.

There were seven of us in a Cessna, which was cozy. From what we read online the night before, I was supposedly overweight, but no one said anything about it. This flight was really cool. Seeing the figures with our own eyes from above was awesome. The only issue I had was my headphones kind of sucked, so I was missing a lot of what the co-pilot/guide was telling us. This was probably made worse by the head cold that I had. Jose drove us back to the hotel, and this was interesting to say the least.

Traffic in Peru as a whole is crazy, with no one paying a bit of attention to the stop signs or the lanes. But this took it to a new level, Nazca is a small little dusty town and there are basically no traffic controls at all, other than speed bumps. We got stuck in one spot where it literally looked like bumper cars. A lot of little cars wedged up against each other at all angles. Jose decided to get around this traffic clot by taking a quick left into a gas station and running through the gas station to come out back onto the street on the other side of the cluster. Only problem with this maneuver was, besides the gas station being extremely narrow, another car was coming into the gas station opposite the way we were trying to exit and we almost had a head on collision. So that was fun.

After that we walked down to a restaurant nearby and had the best meal up to this point, by far. This restaurant had Taquenos appetizers which were absolutely amazing. They were light, fluffy, philo-type dough filled with cheese. The entrees themselves were also pretty good. After lunch we walked around a little bit, got some souvenirs and stacked up on snacks and water at a grocery store for our next bus ride. This bus ride was supposed to be 10 hours long! As it turned out, this bus ride was actually more like 11 hours as we left about 3:30 and got in at 2:30. But there was some good views along the way, with the ocean crashing right up against the desert and the setting sun and dust adding color. It was after three by the time we got to our bed. Long day, but good (thankfully we had good food).