Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Transport
10
Cruz del Sur
B2
11
Ormeño
A2
MIRADOR
(observation tower; admission S1)
This metal lookout tower on the Pan-American Hwy, about
20km north of Nazca, has an oblique view of three of the figures: the lizard, tree and
hands (or frog). If you decide to walk around the desert here, note the signs warning of
landmines. These are a reminder that walking on the lines is strictly forbidden: it irrepar-
ably damages them.
| Lookout
MUSEO MARIA REICHE
(Museo de Sitio; admission S5; 9am-6pm)
When Maria Reiche, the German mathematician
and long-term researcher of the Nazca Lines, died in 1998, her house, which stands anoth-
er 5km north along Carr Panamericana Sur, was made into a small museum. Though it
provides scant information, you can see where she lived, amid the clutter of her tools and
sketches, and pay your respects at her tomb.
| Museum
MUSEO DIDÁCTICO ANTONINI
(
http://digilander.libero.it/MDAntonini
;
Av de la Cultura 600; admission S15, cameras S5; 9am-7pm)
On the east side of town, this excellent archaeological museum has an aqueduct running
through the back garden, as well as interesting reproductions of burial tombs, a valuable
collection of ceramic pan flutes and a scale model of the Lines. You can get an overview
of both the Nazca culture and a glimpse of most of Nazca's outlying sites here.
| Museum
