Very close to the Nazca town, 35 minutes south, is one of the many cemeteries of the Nazca culture where you can see today tombs containing mummified bodies from the last period of this culture looking towards the east, they contain mantles, braids, long hair and utensils. that they used in life. The Chauchilla tours cemetery that shows the sandy floor combined with small bone remains already disintegrated, a tour that promises to be interesting.
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Tours in Nazca, the workshop where ceramics are made with the same technique used by the Nazca lines culture. An work exhibition in live is offered from the selection of clay, different mineralized stones to obtain their colors, brushes with baby or guinea pig hair, human grease and the famous ovens for cooking at high temperatures. A copy would be impossible to recognize from an original, the technique is only one in different times.
You can buy a copy of Nazca ceramics signed by the family that made it.
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Would you like to have a hummingbird, spider, astronaut the Nazca lines figures made of gold ¿do you like jewelry? This is the right place, the artisanal gold extraction workshops offer you an explanation on a smaller scale of how a large part of the town of Nazca subsists with this work in the mines near the town.
Mining is one of the main economic activities of the Nazca town.
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One of the best ways to take advantage of the emergence of water from the ground was for the Nazca culture to be able to develop high knowledge in hydraulic engineering system taking advantage of the water transported by different channels in straight lines and zig zag ways with stone walls with a shape of a letter v to provide stability and avoid collapse due to earthquakes.
These waters were stored in large pools and then distributed for irrigation of agricultural fields; these waters are used till day.
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If you do not have plenty time to visit Cahuachi ruins ceremonial center, always there will be a small time to visit the Antonini museum. Here you can appreciate the religious and cultural customs, their rituals, instruments of war and music, textiles, different hairstyles, foods and the highlight atraccion are the famous trophy heads, a common practice in the Nazca lines culture, decapitation of enemies here is also an aqueduct inside the museum
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One of the few administrative centers that are still standing can also be visited very close to the heart of the Nazca town.
Patios, small squares, towers, rooms on different levels which classified the social statuses of the population and the elite. This ruin is located in a strategic place from where you can see the Nazca town. nazca lines tours.
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This is the second tower built next to the road with state funds and in front is the first tower built by Maria Reiche, now closed.
From this point you can see the figures: the tree, the hands, the lizard, several lines and parts of triangles.
You can also visit very close to these towers a small mountain called the natural observatory where the newly discovered feline is found and many lines that begin and end on this hill.
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A little further north of the Nazca towers is the Palpa valley where there is also a tower from where you can see a set of figures located on the slopes of a hill.
These figures are known as the family, geglyphs that are older than those of Nazca due to their different characteristics. They are directly associated with the Paracas culture long before Nazca.
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The place where Maria Reiche lived is called Ingenio, this is where the museum of the same name is located next to the Panamerica. You can see the first work that mathematics did on the lines and figures, photos and instruments used. On one side of the museum is the mausoleum of Maria Reiche and her sister Renate Reiche who came to take care of her and predeceased before . Both rest in the place chosen by Maria Reiche during her lifetime.
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The ceremonial center of Cahuachi, the largest of its time, is located 1 hour away from the town of Nazca. place where stepped pyramids, bottle-shaped underground tombs and cemeteries were discovered around the ruin. It was the most important housing and ritual center of the Nazca culture
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If you want to ski in the sand but in Nazca the best option is Cerro Blanco, a dune 2078 meters high. To reach the top and be able to slide, a tour that departs in the early morning is necessary. We will depart in a car 25 kilometers along the road. and then a walk until you reach the highest peak of the dune. Cerro Blanco is considered the highest dune in America
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The Pisco and Wine tour are also exquisite in Nazca, you can take a 3-hour tour visiting the Ingenio Valley, where the most popular and famous winery in the area is located with a varied presentation of its liquors between Piscos and Wines.
García family winery awaits you to offer you a fine tasting of their products, conbine with a nazca lines tour.
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