The desert in Peru that’s etched with geometric lines and sketches of plants, animals and birds has always been a head scratcher. Who filled the Nazca plain that hardly ever gets rain with giant doodles in the sand?

Why did they make huge figures that can only be appreciated from the air at a time when no one could fly high enough to see them? Were they ritual sites where the tribes that became the Incas made offerings for rain? Even more intriguingly, did their makers receive guidance from above?

A lot of folks have tried to unravel the mysteries of the fanciful sketches in the sand that include what appear to be a hummingbird, a condor, a spider, a daisy and… what some say could be an astronaut in the desert sand. On a flightseeing expedition from Seabourn Cruises’ new Seabourn Venture over one of the driest places in the world, it’s time to try to make a few of our own guesses.

Read it all in The Cruisington Times.

https://www.cruisington.com/thinking-outside-the-lines-flying-over-perus-nazca-plain/