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The Americas 2013

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8 March 2013

08 Mar

We had a run of 450km through the desert to Lima today but before we got going we chartered a small 4 seater Cessna to take us up to see the famous lines of Nazca which was incredible. We were flying at about 1000m off the ground which gave us beautiful and full views of the shapes and although getting pics out of the window of the small plane was challenging, we managed a few decent ones.

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The Whale..About 65m across.

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Views over the desert plateau…

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The Monkey..

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The Astronaut..

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The Spider…

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The tree and Gollum??

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The Condor, and my favourite…

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The Hummingbird!!

The ride from Nazca to Lima is pure desert! Hot, dry, boring and congested with trucks until the last 200km which is a double carriage way into the Capital City. Lima is beautiful, cosmopolitan and vibrant with awesome restaurants and hotels. We are spending the next 3 nights at the Marriott right on the coast and dinner tonight was at the Chefs table at the world famous “Central” which was incredible, but rich doesn’t begin to describe the food!

Days ride

Our days ride..

 
Be a sport Many of us have the means and wherewithal to undertake the dreams we want but elect to choose otherwise, many however, do not and that is the purpose of this plea. Afrika Tikkun (http://afrikatikkun.org// ) is a South African non governmental, non profit charity organisation run by the Lubner family that in essence does just that; re-provide the possibility to dream and to create the possibility of turning those dreams into a reality.

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  1. Enrico

    March 11, 2013 at 11:00 pm

    Hmmm… I don’t see the Touratech expanding bags on top of the panniers. Presume they are in the car for the time being. Impressive photos of the Nazca lines!