TOURS IN NAZCA-CHAUCHILLA TOURS

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THE CHAUCHILLA GRAVE CEMETERY

Very close to the Nazca town, 35 minutes south, is one of the many cemeteries of the Nazca culture where you can see today tombs containing mummified bodies from the last period of this culture looking towards the east, they contain mantles, braids, long hair and utensils. that they used in life. The Chauchilla tours cemetery that shows the sandy floor combined with small bone remains already disintegrated, a tour that promises to be interesting.

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CERAMIC WORK SHOP

Tours in Nazca, the workshop where ceramics are made with the same technique used by the Nazca lines culture. An work exhibition in live  is offered from the selection of clay, different mineralized stones to obtain their colors, brushes with baby or guinea pig hair, human grease and the famous ovens for cooking at high temperatures. A copy would be impossible to recognize from an original, the technique is only one in different times.

You can buy a copy of Nazca ceramics signed by the family that made it.

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THE GOLD EXTRACCION PROCESS

Would you like to have a hummingbird, spider, astronaut  the Nazca lines figures made of gold ¿do you like jewelry? This is the right place, the artisanal gold extraction workshops offer you an explanation on a smaller scale of how a large part of the town of Nazca subsists with this work in the mines near the town.

Mining is one of the main economic activities of the Nazca town.

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ACUEDUCTS- HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING

One of the best ways to take advantage of the emergence of water from the ground was for the Nazca culture to be able to develop high knowledge in hydraulic engineering system taking advantage of the water transported by different channels in straight lines and zig zag ways with stone walls with a shape of a letter v to provide stability and avoid collapse due to earthquakes.

These waters were stored in large pools and then distributed for irrigation of agricultural fields; these waters are used till day.

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ANTONINI MUSEUM

If you do not have plenty time to visit Cahuachi ruins ceremonial center, always there will be a small time to visit the Antonini museum. Here you can appreciate the religious and cultural customs, their rituals, instruments of war and music, textiles, different hairstyles, foods and the highlight atraccion are the famous trophy heads, a common practice in the Nazca lines  culture, decapitation of enemies here is also an aqueduct inside the museum

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THE PAREDONES RUINS

One of the few administrative centers that are still standing can also be visited very close to the heart of the Nazca town. Patios, small squares, towers, rooms on different levels which classified the social statuses of the population and the elite. This ruin is located in a strategic place from where you can see the Nazca town. nazca lines tours.

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