spontaneous trip

so. halfway through my last class thursday a couple buddies of mine mentioned that they were going south to see the nazca lines (we didn't have school on friday and we leave today at 8:30pm, so plenty of time). and not having anything planned, i figured why not? after lunch we jumped on a bus to ica (four hours south) then another bus to nazca (2 more hours) and got there around 11. we didn't have any place to stay but some dude walked up to us and started telling us about his hotel. we ended paying 15 soles (5 bucks) per person to stay there. we had a hotel recommened to us but we didn't find it till later and it ended up being 25bucks a person. we got a sweet deal.

friday morning we headed over to an airport and jumped on a little prop plane, a 6 seater, and flew over the lines. nazca is in the middle of the desert and the lines are these giant carvings that were made about 1000 yrs ago or so. seeing as my camera is broke i have no photos, but i will soon being stealing them from my buddies. the carvings include a monkey, condor, parrot, hummingbird, and more. i think about 16 total. it was awesome. after that we had lunch, and caught the buses back home. last night we had a go-away party thingy where we went to a club where they had these people doing traditional dances. pretty cool.

as of now i'm getting all my stuff together and trying to get organized for my flight to argentina tonight. so my next post will be about argentina. awesome!!!