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The town of Nasca is a dusty outpost in the San José desert. The town and area would be unremarkable if it were not for the Nasca Lines, a series of 70 or so large designs etched into the dry desert outside of town.
Nasca itself is a ramshackle town that has learned how to live off the tourist trade. Visitors to the town who arrive by bus will be greeted by a small swarm of pushy locals wishing to sell tours to the lines or try to get them to stay in certain hotels. The best way to see the
The town of Nasca is a dusty outpost in the San José desert. The town and area would be unremarkable if it were not for the Nasca Lines, a series of 70 or so large designs etched into the dry desert outside of town.
Nasca itself is a ramshackle town that has learned how to live off the tourist trade. Visitors to the town who arrive by bus will be greeted by a small swarm of pushy locals wishing to sell tours to the lines or try to get them to stay in certain hotels. The best way to see the lines is to go through reputable agencies, of which there are several available in town.
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Alegria Tours
Alegria Tours offers a variety of tours operating out of Nasca. Their list of options includes simple archeological tours of Nasca, sandboarding, guided museum tours, trips to a nearby goldmine and ...Nasca, Peru
Nasca Trails
This tour company is run by Juan Tohanilo Vera. Nasca Trails offers guided tours to cemeteries outside of Nasca as well as to the local museums. They can arrange for a flight over the Nasca Lines as ...Nasca, Peru
Mystery Peru
Travel with Mystery Peru aboard a dune buggy across the desert and explore the ceremonial center of Cahuachi, these ancient burial sites feature mummified corpses from the Nasca Culture, a fertile ...Nasca, Peru
Maria Reiche Planetarium
Located in the Hotel Nasca Lines in town, the Planetarium offers nightly shows (7 p.m.) concerning the Nasca lines and the various theories about their purpose and origins. You do not need to be ...Nasca, Peru
Museo Didactico Antonini
Museo Antonini is worth escaping to one afternoon, to take in its stunning collection. The museum heads up excavations at Pueblo Viejo and Cahuachi archaeological sites, and houses finds from them, ...Nasca, Peru
Casa-Museo Maria Reiche
For decades Maria Reiche lived in a simple, dirt-floored house just to the north of the Nasca Lines where she spent most of her life studying the patterns in the lines. Her bedroom is left just as it
...Nasca, Peru
Mirador and Cerro
The Nasca Lines can be viewed from a plane weaving the sky above them, or from other, more down-to-earth vantage points. The cerro is a solitary hill in the midst of this vast desert. Climbing to the
...Nasca, Peru
Cemetery of Chauchilla
This graveyard from the Chincha period (1000-1460) makes an interesting day trip from Nazca. Located about 8 kilometers off the Panamerican Highway, approximately 30 minutes south of Nazca, this ...Nasca, Peru
Ruins of Cahuachi
The ceremonial city of Cahuachi is located about 28 kilometres away from the modern city of Nasca, at the lower section of the Nasca Valley, virtually in the middle of the desert. Since 1982, the ...Nasca, Peru
Mummies on the Nasca Desert
Located some 40 km west of Nasca, is one of the strangest cemeteries on Earth. The place is called the Death Valley, and it is inhabited by a group of farmers who make a living plundering the ancient ...Nasca, Peru
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