No Fixed Plans

We all had breakfast at the hotel before getting on private bus at 11:30. 30 minutes later arrived at a pisco brewing place where we ordered lunch and then went to see the pisco farms and how they make it. The place had rows and rows of plants where they grow all of their ingredients and showed us a picture of the machine they use to make the plants into alcohol. They then gave up about 15 different pisco shots to try (where I chose to not have any) and told us how to buy the bottles and the prices of the bottles. We then went and had lunch (where we realised I was likely to be called Dobby the rest of the trip and that Dobby and Tobi sound a lot alike). After we had 15 minutes to go to the bathroom/buy any pisco that we wanted. We then went back onto the bus for another 5 hours before arriving in nasca, where we went to withdraw money and buy snacks for the next days. However, a few of us were not happy on the way back to the bus as they still do construction after sundown and wet cement ended up spraying at a few of us. 

We headed to the hotel (about another 5 minutes) where we had an hour to settle in before dinner, which  afterwards we all hung around playing a game together before heading to bed.

The next morning, we were told to be ready to go to the nasca lines flights by 8:10am however we were picked up closer to 8:30am. When we got there we had to hand over our passports, pay the 47 soles tourism tax and those of us who hadn’t paid for the tour had to pay the $122USD

We then got an explanation from the guide all of the different geographs (13 total) and shown where we can buy souvenirs. 

We then had to wait over an hour for fog to clear before our flights actually started. 

There was 8 of us in our group, however they can only fit 6 on a plane so they split us into 5 and 3 and the group of 3 were in a plane with some randos. 

The flight lasted 30 minutes and while it only made me feel a lot of pressure from how low we were, it made two of the others feel really sick. 

When we finished, the 5 of us were instructed to go into a white van with two other people we didn’t know who proceeded to drive us back to the hotel while the tour leader waited for the other 3. 

After arriving back at the hotel, we had an hour to chill until we had lunch, which was cooked underground, the steam being kept in by banana leaves and rocks. 

After lunch everyone (bar 3 of us) prepared for the activities they had booked in nasca. 

The other 3 of us relaxed and mentally prepared for the overnight bus we had ahead.