From Dry Coastal Desert To The Altiplano
Posted On Monday, August 14, 1995 at at 9:19 PM by AlvinPeru had a amazing array of landscapes nestled between the country's Andes backbones and the famed Incan heartlands; from here, the landscapes falling off sharply towards the arid Pacific coasts and the urban cities like the capital, Lima as well as the world-famous and mysterious Nasca Lines.
Nasca Lines were incredible gigantic patterns (geoglyphs) of spider, humming bird, monkey and lizard which were etched into the arid desert in the south of Peru; the purposes and constructions of these amazing patterns were still not yet fully understood. We hired a plane and obtained "spaceship" point of view of these truly unfathomable engineering phenomena.
On the other hand, the Incan inland included the scenic Urabamba valleys, colonial cities such as Arequipa and of course Macchu Picchu. By following the dry coastal roads towards these inner Peruvian lands, our bus had to first pass through the awesome Altiplano where the entire highlands were located at an average elevation of 3,000 metres and this was where we stayed near Lake Titicaca and the lakeside town of Puno. We experienced breathing difficulties during the night's sleep; especially Mandy, as she had the audacity to SWIM (!) in the hot spring of Chivay and ended up feeling drained and nausea, silly girl... All in all, Peru had a very diverse and unusual series of landscapes.
Nasca Lines were incredible gigantic patterns (geoglyphs) of spider, humming bird, monkey and lizard which were etched into the arid desert in the south of Peru; the purposes and constructions of these amazing patterns were still not yet fully understood. We hired a plane and obtained "spaceship" point of view of these truly unfathomable engineering phenomena.
On the other hand, the Incan inland included the scenic Urabamba valleys, colonial cities such as Arequipa and of course Macchu Picchu. By following the dry coastal roads towards these inner Peruvian lands, our bus had to first pass through the awesome Altiplano where the entire highlands were located at an average elevation of 3,000 metres and this was where we stayed near Lake Titicaca and the lakeside town of Puno. We experienced breathing difficulties during the night's sleep; especially Mandy, as she had the audacity to SWIM (!) in the hot spring of Chivay and ended up feeling drained and nausea, silly girl... All in all, Peru had a very diverse and unusual series of landscapes.
