4 horas
Daily Tour
Unlimited
English, Espanol
If you like archaeology, you cannot miss visiting Nazca, with our archaeological tours you will be surprised by the wonderful legacy that the Nazca civilization inherited. We will visit the Aqueducts of Cantalloc, they are a system of filtering galleries that supplied the agricultural field that lacked surface water.
Later we will know the largest mud ceremonial center in the world, known as Cahuachi, which was built during the pre-Hispanic period.
Finally, we will fly over the mysterious lines of Nazca, drawn on hills and deserts, these wonderful geoglyphs with shapes of different animals, objects and geometric figures, will cover approximately 640 km of desert, are currently considered World Heritage by UNESCO.
CANTALLOC AQUEDUCTS TOUR (2hrs)
Located 4km north of Nazca, these 40 aqueducts were used by the ancient Nazca civilization to obtain water, the underground canals were created based on boulder, flagstone roof and Guarango wood, They transported water from the current that descended from the Andean region to the surface where they formed cochas that were distributed to the fields of cultivation.
Later we will go to the geoglyphs of Cantalloc in the form of a large trapezoid located on the slope of Cerro Blanco considered a sacred place where water and fertility worship is performed.
Ending with our tour, we will visit the walls, built with adobe. These walls are considered Inca administrative centers and were inhabited by soldiers, maidens and administrators of the Inca empire.
TOUR AT CENTER CEREMONIAL CAHUACHI (2HRS Y MEDIA)
This housing center is located 28 km south west of Nazca, is composed of the great pyramid, staggered temples and ceremonial squares where sacrifices and offerings related to agriculture were performed, contains more than 40 mounds covered with adobe structures.
We could not leave without visiting the Antonine site museum, where we will visualize mummified funerary bales, ceramics and textiles belonging to the Nazca civilization, which were found in the excavations carried out in the ceremonial center Cahuachi.
05:15 PM End our Full Day, with the return to the city of Ica, to the hotel or place of return coordinated with the reservation area.
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