On the way to Ica. Passengers about to board local transport with possessions n their backs and carrying more. Typical scene I would discover as we travelled

A fairground ride in Ica and market stalls beyond

Near Ica. Seriously big sand dunes

Huacachina Oasis, Ica, almost surrounded by sand dunes

Huacachina Oasis below the sand dunes. Looks like they will overwhelm the Oasis!

Huacachina Oasis - the pool, with sand dunes beyond

Huacachina Oasis - note the dunes towering behind

Street photographers at the Oasis. Thy process black and white prints on the spot!

Huacachina Oasis - a pleasant little piazza

Leaving Ica on the Pan-American highway

Palpa street

Palpa street as we drove through

Leaving Palpa

To our left we could see the mountains - soon we'd be among them!

Filling up along the road between Palpa and Nazca

A rather odd stand-out bit of geology. I have no information....

A last view of the sand dunes as we sped along the highway

Beyond Ica. Even though there aren't sand-dunes here it was essentially a stony desert.

The main Pan-American highway as we began to move more inland

Our Land Rovers and the start of mountainous scenery on the way to the Nazca lines. It was a rapid transition from plain to mountains!

Our Land Rovers plus Oscar (IPEN rep) as we took a break

Away from the coast just barren hills. Very picturesque though

As we climbed away from the coastal plain the road started winding up steep valleys

Moving into the hills. Deep valleys with agriculture and barren hillsides

The landscape as we hit a sort of peneplain after climbing for a while. Not far from the Nazca lines

Nazca lines - there is some sort of creature? 'drawn' in the centre of the view

Nazca lines. You can see a very broad area to the left stretching to the centre of the view and lines crossing lower in the view and some short lines in the centre

Nazca lines - here as well as the straight lines there are shapes drawn out nearer to the camera

Nazca lines - two parallel lines stretching into the distance across the Pan-Am highway

Nazca lines - you can see the line just extends into the distance

Close up of a couple of the Nazca lines showing the way the pebbles were just pushed to the edges to produce the lines.

Nazca lines . Our Land Rovers parked on the right with the main highway crossing the scene.

Nazca lines - some straight ahead, broad one going off to the left.

My first view of a banana flower

Hotel 'pool' in Nazca, Hotel Zegarra