More from the Desert

Or should it be dessert? Because pecans are in season here, and we tried a tasty treat called chocotejas (I think) that was like a pecan turtle. Delicious! Yesterday Mom's student Roberto and his family picked us up and took us on a tour of Ica. We visited a bodega where they make wine and pisco, then went to a local restaurant and ended up at the house where they live, which is in the countryside near Ica. The sand dunes stretch for miles around here, and Roberto and his uncle have climbed them for hours, even as far as the oasis where we are staying, which takes them almost three hours. We saw the highest dune in South America today (possibly in the Americas?) that was bigger than the mountains in front of it. We also flew over the Nasca lines and luckily I brought Dramamine (like Gravol for the Canadians) because otherwise I would've thrown up it was such a small plane. It's still difficult to understand how these goeglyphs were made because they were done before any type of flight was possible, as far as we know, yet can only be truly seen from the air.