I need to go buy a bus ticket. I'll be back in a little while.
Saw the Nazca Lines today. I have some pictures, but I can't be bothered to get them off my camera here. I'll add them when I get back home.
If you have a minute, do a quick search on the Nazca Lines. The people that made them are sadly no more. I think after seeing these huge desert images that can only be understood from an airplane....that these folks died out as a people because they spent too much time in some middle of nowhere desert where it hasn't rained since the last ice age, and not enough time looking for food and water.
It is strange too, because two of the images they carved into the desert are of a monkey and a whale....so obviously they knew the sea was nearby (which has food and usually water)...and they knew the rainforest was on the other side of the Andes (there are no monkeys in the desert).....yet they continued trying to eke out an existence where there was obviously none to be had.
Oh well, I guess I can add the Nazcans to my Easter Island list of former civilazations we are perhaps better off without.
Posted by kelliottdykes at March 23, 2005 05:10 PMGood to hear from you. Very interesting about the Nazcans.
Posted by: Dad at March 23, 2005 08:54 PM