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Peru - Specifics

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Machu Picchu: In the Andes Mountains in Peru lies the Lost City of the Incas, Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu was discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, Director of the Peruvian Expedition of the University of Yale. Before the arrival of the Spanish, the Inca Empire stretched from Ecuador, through Peru and Bolivia, to northern Chile. Nazca Lines: The Nazca Lines are a series of geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches 53 miles or more than 80 kilometers between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru. They were created by the Nazca culture between 200 BC and AD 700. There are hundreds of individual figures, ranging in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys and lizards. Chauchilla Cemetery: The Chauchilla Cemetery contains the remains of Nazca people who lived in this area around 500BC until about 800AD when the Inca’s came. A lot of the mummies were draped with hair or had remarkably long lengths of hair hanging decoratively above them.
Ruins of Machu Picchu	The whale image and some of the many lines in Nazca desert	The astronaut figure in Nazca desert
Spider monkey figure in Nazca desert	Some of the many beautiful Nazca lines	Tomb with mummy at Chauchilla cemetery
Dog figure in Nazca desert	Nazca lines seen from the view tower	One of the many mummies that can be seen at Chauchilla cemetery