Showing posts with label Nazca Peru travelling memories earthquake 2007. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nazca Peru travelling memories earthquake 2007. Show all posts

Sunday, 25 April 2010

Memory of the Day (25th April 2010)

Nazca, Peru.

I travelled there shortly after the devastating earthquake which shook the region in August 2007 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Peru_earthquake), and although Nazca was relatively unscathed the infrastructure from the north was heavily disrupted.

As a result, the tourist industry in the area had almost ceased to exist and the touters and tour guides were beside themselves when a handful of tourists arrived.

Also took a flight over the Nazca lines (and paid a good amount more for it than I normally would have, but didn't mind) and visited some cool museums with lovely pieces of pottery and some scary looking mummified heads with their mouths sewn shut.