Low-budget tripsDrawings from the Nazca: the mysteries of the geoglyphs in the Sechura Desert in Peru
On the vast, dry plains of the Sechura Desert in southern Peru stretches one of the most fascinating and mysterious monuments of the ancient world - the Nazca Lines. These gigantic geoglyphs, created by the pre-Columbian Nazca civilization between 500 BC and 500 AD, depict hundreds of geometric figures, animals and plants, visible in their full glory only from a bird's eye view. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994, the Nazca drawings represent not only a remarkable artistic and engineering achievement of ancient cultures, but also an unsolved mystery that has fired the imagination of archaeologists, historians and lovers of ancient mysteries from around the world for decades.