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NAZCA MIXED TOUR; CULTURAL AND ADVENTUROUS GUIDED TOUR $455 USD Per Person

Enjoy The Best Tour Of Nazca In 2 Days - 1 Night

Nasca Lines is located on the south of the city of Ica, the Pan Americana highway cuts through the desert of sand dunes to km 422, before of Nazca city. There are lines were made by removing the iron oxide coated pebbles which cover the surface of the Nazca desert. When the gravel is removed, they contrast with the light-colored earth underneath. There are several hundred simple lines and geometric patterns on the Nazca plateau, as well as over seventy curvilinear animal, insect, and human figures.
The area encompassing the lines is nearly 200 square miles, and the largest figures can be nearly 900 feet long. The lines persist due to the extremely dry, windless, and constant climate of the Nazca region: the Nazca desert is one of the driest on Earth and maintains a temperature around 25ºC (77ºF) year round, and the lack of wind has helped keep the lines uncovered to the present day.
The Nazca Lines are gigantic geoglyphs located between Palpa and Nazca desert, there were created by the Nazca culture between 200 BC and 600 AD. There are hundreds of individual figures, ranging in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, and lizards. The Nazca lines cannot be recognized as coherent figures except from the air.
Since their discovery, various theories have been proposed regarding the methods and motivations behind the lines' construction.
Cesca Light Plane To Fly Over Nasca Lines

Cesca Light Plane To Fly Over Nasca Lines

ITINERARY OF NAZCA MIXED TOUR

DAY 1: LIMA - NASCA - FLIGHT OVER THE MYSTERIOUS FIGURES AND DRAWINGS

At 6am pick up from your hotel and transfer to the bus station (Cruz Del Sur - Cruzero service) and aboard the bus at 7am. The bus service is one of the best one in all over Peru. The bus travel takes 6 hours through Pisco, Paracas bay, Ica and finally arrives to Nazca.
At 3pm transfer to the aerodrome of Maria Reiche and then aboard the light Cessna plane (flight of 35min): The Nazca lines are located in the desert, a high arid plateau that stretches between Nazca and Palpa on the Pampa (a large flat area of southern Peru). The Nazca lines are geoglyphs and geometric line clearings in the Peruvian desert. The Nazca lines are an enigma. Since their discovery, the Nazca lines have inspired fantastic explanations from ancient gods, a landing strip for returning aliens, a celestial calendar created by the ancient civilization, used for rituals probably related to astronomy, or clans who made up the population and to determine through ritual their economic functions held up by reciprocity and redistribution, or a map of underground water supplies. Flying over the area you can marvel looking at the perfect shape of Animal's, flowers, plants, objects, and anthropomorphic figures of colossal proportions made with well-defined lines.
At mentioned time return to selected hotel.
Nazca Cultural Tours

DAY 2: CERRO BLANCO SANDBOARD TOUR (2070M) - LIMA

At 5am pick up from your hotel by private transport and transfer to the base of the biggest sand dune in the world. It is located on the route to Cusco, at the beginning of the highland mountains. In ancient Quechua language Yuraq Orjo means White Mountain and in Spanish means Cerro Blanco (2070m). After one hour driving we reach the closest point to the dunes available via vehicle. From here we start climb up 3 hours, carrying our boards, energy bars, lots of sun block and enough water for drink on the way up to the top. Ancients of Nasca culture considered this a sacred place and made ornament offerings to this sand dune. The highest temperature on the day is 25ºC - 28ºC between 9am to 2pm.
Sanboarders Peru

At 10am we arrive at the summit where it is dry, hot, windy and sandy, but offers spectacular views from this White Mountain, covering the green Nasca valley. Here we rest, snack and are given Sandboarding instructions. You can practice on the small dune trying several techniques of the board until we are ready to go Sandboarding on the main dune.
At 11am time for best part of this trip!!! Time to feel the Cerro Blanco adrenaline in our body and blood. Which way first? How long I will be Sandboarding? How I will take pictures? These are just some of the regular questions asked. Do you want to know more?? We can't describe exactly how it feels, you need to get your own sandy experience... Come on!!!
At 12pm one hour later, some people may still be on their way down after many amusing falls. We wait and then travel as a group back to Nasca.
At 1pm you can enjoy lovely swimming pool and the best restaurant in the city. This is the end of our service.
Around 2:30pm or 4:30pm will be the transfer to bus station and travel back to Lima by luxury public bus.

Sand Ski On Cerro Blanco Sand Dune

NAZCA MIXED TOUR; CULTURAL AND ADVENTUROUS GUIDED TOUR INCLUDES

Welcoming reception at the bus station and transfer to the selected hotel
Transfer from Hotel/Airport/Hotel
Entrance to the Nasca Lines - New regulations (INC)
Light plane (Cessna 172 - 182 - 206)
35min of fly over Nasca lines
Sandboard tour
Swimming pool
Meals (1 breakfast - 1 Lunch)

TRIP RATE 2012
CATEGORY OF ACCOMMODATION	SINGLE OCCUPANCY	DOUBLE OCCUPANCY	TRIPLE OCCUPANCY
Backpacker 2* Hostels	$500 USD each	$470 USD each	$455 USD each
Standard 3* Hostels or 2* Hotels	$581 USD each	$554 USD each	$520 USD each
Comfort 3* or 4* Hotels	$656 USD each	$620 USD each	$603 USD each
Luxury 4* or 5* Hotels	$796 USD each	$770 USD each	$726 USD each

All prices stated above are subject to change.
Exchange rate $1 USD = S/. 3.02 (rate may vary daily).

Departure day	Any day. We reccommend between April November.
Discounts	Discount: $5 USD of dicount for South American Explorers Club Members Discount 3%: Tour Operators or Travel Agencies Only Students: $5 USD of discount only with valid green ISIC card
Group size	8 - 12 participants per guide
Private service	Able departs any day for organized groups or individuals travelers. Highly recommended. Best value.
Rain season	Never rain on this coastal area, same day can be cloud and not more
Best time to Visit	The best time to visit the coastal area is between December and march is the summer season

NOT INCLUDED

Alcoholic drinks
Breakfast on the first day
Airport tax need to be paid directly just before to aboard the plane
Bus ticket confirmation
Phone calls
Food
Tip for the pilot and camp staff

HOW TO BOOK THIS TRIP WITH PERU ADVENTURE TOURS?

To visit Peru through one of our tours you must make a reservation in advance.
We can help you to book your tour in 5 easy steps.
1. Send an enquiry
Use one of our e-mails mentioned at the bottom of each page of our website. You must need to be clear with your questions about the tour you like to book. We will appreciate if you add the tour link to be booked and will be easier for us to help you.
You need to fill up the date of the tour? How many people? What level/category of hotel? What type of room? And other specifications will be better and our experienced and professional travel advisor will customize a tour to fit your exact needs.
Also you can contact our office at 0051 (0)54 221658 or 0051 (0)54 973842688 to check availability for the requested tour. All reservation needs to make by e-mail at peruadventurestours@hotmail.com
2. Get a Quote
Our professional travel advisors will send you the best quote according your requested tour. The tour quote vary according the length of the tour, the accommodation, the sightseeing, meals, public or private transportation, air fares, equipments, etc.
3. Amend your tour for FREE
Our tip advisor will proposed you the acting tour plan within 24 hours or less, which you can further discuss the entire tour plan to suite your satisfactory. So feel free to express your wants, and take good advantages of your personal travel advisor's experience and advice.
Here you can further discuss all the details of the tour plan until you are totally satisfied with it.
4. Confirm & pay deposit of 50% at booking time
A payment of 50% deposit of the total amount must be paid to us at booking time. The balance is to be paid in full on your arrival date or just before to begin the tour (meeting day). If we receive your booking for less than 10 days prior to the tour start date, might we will ask for payment to be made in full once you confirm the tour, ask for this before you book the tour.
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5. Final Payment & Enjoy your tour
The final payment can be paid in different ways according each tour booked. One way when we meet you at the airport of Lima after your arrive to Peru. Other way is when we meet at your hotel one day before to start the service/tour, we use this method especially for people booking some hiking and climbing tours because we need to check the equipments as tents, ice axe, sleeping bags, etc. Normally the meeting time happens one day before depart between 6 to 8pm at the lobby of your hotel.
The final way is contacting the travelers just few minutes before to begin the service/trip; this can be at the hotel, airport, bus station or in our local offices.
After you confirm the booking form and the first deposit we will e-mail you mentioned how which option we will chose to arrange the final balance of the trip.
NOTE: Some tours can be booked directly in our local offices in Cusco or Arequipa. If there is availability for the requested tour will be a pleasure to fit you on the tour and you can pay the full amount in US dollars cash or local currency (soles). We will help you, we will fit you on the tour ONLY if we have place. Ofcourse we DON'T guarantee any last moment departs. We really recommend making your reservation in advance and we will guarantee depart of the service/tour.
IMPORTANTE: Before you book this tour and arrange the first payment of this tour read our TERMS & CONDITIONS.

RAIN SEASON

Some cloudy days, specially in the morning.

BEST TIME FOR PICTURES

All the year, if some morning is cloud we flight after midday.

ADVICE FOR VISITORS

Visitors come to see the Nasca lines, we advice to book the trip 2 months in advance and avoid to lose time waiting for a remote possibility to find free seat at the light plane. Take ccamera to manoeuvre easily in order to photograph each figure. If possible take a 35-85 wide angle lens to capture the full size. Take note of the pilot´s comments, he will indicate the right moment in which to appreciate the figures when to photograph them.

WHAT YOU NEED TO CARRY/BRING

Hat or cap to protect you from the sun
Sun block (sun protection cream)
Valid passport to pass the control of the airport
Camera, plenty of film and spare batteries
Binoculars
Summer clothes.

TECNICAL NEWS

Each aircraft has room for 3 or 5 passengers, everyone with a window seat, so that these spectacular drawings can be viewed and photographed.
Aircraft adapted for filming and aerophotography service.
Tourism air transportation and observation operations, with SEM equivalent maintanance system.
The pilots are highly qualified and speak English, they will guide you throughout the flight over the desert.

AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE

FLIGHT ALTITUDES

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