Overflight of Nazca Lines from Nazca
- 1 hour
- 2 languages
- Instant confirmation
- Mobile ticket
Highlights
Enjoy a wonderful overflight over Nazca Lines, to see different enigmatic images in the land. Most lines run straight across the landscape, but there are also figurative designs of animals and plants, made up of lines. The individual figurative geoglyph designs measure between 0.4 and 1.1 km (.2 and .7 mi) across. The figures vary in complexity. Hundreds are simple lines and geometric shapes; more than 70 are zoomorphic designs of animals such as a hummingbird, spider, fish, llama, jaguar, monkey, lizard, dog and a human. Other shapes include trees and flowers. Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs, but in general, they ascribe religious significance to them
Inclusions
What's included
- Flight over Nazca Lines
What's not
- Tips
- Lunch
Itinerary
Upon arrival, our guide will assist you at the Nazca airport with check-in. For this aerial tour, we use a small Cessna aircraft, which has spacious room for five people, each person with a window seat. Our pilot will give each participant a Nazca Lines Map that will help you to recognize the figures from above. Among the figures, you will see various animal images, such as a monkey, a spider, a dog, and a human being. Likewise, we will also find birds, such as a hummingbird, a parrot, a heron, and other creatures. Additionally, you will also see geometrical shapes and hundreds of straight lines crisscrossing the desert surface. Take into account that the pilot will fly the plane in circles over each Nazca figure.
Cancellation
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is included for everyone.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 20 travellers
- Operated by
- RipioTurismo
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Nazca
- Its from-price is 182% above the median of the 53 experiences we list in Nazca.
- It is shorter than most of them.
About Nazca
Nazca is a desert town on Peru's south coast, famous for giant ancient lines and figures etched into the plain, best seen from the air or a viewing tower.
Nazca lies in a coastal valley in southern Peru, at the foot of the Andes, in one of the driest stretches of the country. On the plains nearby, the Nazca Lines, giant figures of a hummingbird, a monkey, a spider and a condor, together with straight lines and geometric shapes, were etched in the stony ground between about 500 BC and AD 500. UNESCO lists them as a World Heritage site, and the German mathematician Maria Reiche spent decades mapping them.
Top-ranked sights in Nazca: Cantalloc Aqueducts (Acueductos de Cantalloc).
