The extremely dry, windless, and constant climate of the Nazca region has preserved the lines well. This desert is one of the driest on Earth and maintains a temperature near 25 °C (77 °F) year round. The lack of wind has helped keep the lines uncovered and visible.

The Nazca Lines are composed of large designs drawn on the desert plain north of the settlement Cahuachi. There were over 350 of these drawings that include: human figures, zoomorphic and fitomorfas, besides geometric lines of several kilometers in length.

Geologists believe that these series of geoglyphs were likely made between 400 and 600 AD. The most popular and reasonable hypothesis is that the lines must have figured in the Nazca people’s religious beliefs, and that they made the designs as offerings to the gods, who would’ve been able to see them from the heavens.

Perhaps the most obvious purpose of the lines is that the Nazca wanted to display their reverence for the natural world and pay homage to their gods, especially those who controlled the weather, so vital to successful agriculture in the arid plains of Peru.

The group of large geoglyphs formed in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru desert is known as Nazca lines. They were created around 500 BC. They contain drawings of animals and plants. One common similarity between the Nazca lines and Stonehenge is that they both were created during ancient times.

Once in Nazca, there are only two options for viewing the lines – take a flight or climb the nearby observation tower. Essentially, the best option boils down to your budget. Flying is undoubtedly preferable as it offers a bird’s eye view of the most important etchings.

The views from the tower are limited and that’s why the flight tour is still the best way to experience the Nazca lines. But the tower is definitely worth a visit. Even though we saw these two figures from the flight, we still enjoyed the different perspective while seeing this from the watch tower.

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