Nazca Lines, Peru

Ok, where do i start? After leaving Cusco, erin and i took a plesant 14 hour bus ride to a desert town called Nazca. This town is in the middle of a dry, windless, rainless vast desert known for its extremely large weird drawings etched in the desert floor.
These lines were't discovered until the 1920's when someone took a flight over the desert and realized there were these huge (talking the size of football fields here) ancient figures. They are believed to have been made sometime in 600BC by the Nazca people. Different theories exist as to why they were made, anything from mimicking star patterns, commincation with ailens, to religous practices. No definante conclusins hav been made yet. We took a tiny plane up and flew over the lines. We were shown things like simple strait lines and triangles (maybe an ancient landing strip?) to much more complex symbols like spiders, monkey's, whales, flowers, birds, and something that is either an alien or a man waving on the side of a mountain.
Either way, it was pretty weird. There are over 300 of these images throughout the desert. The lines were made by pushing rock and sand apart to make the lines. It has been well perserved because of lack of wind or rain. All in all very cool, and very weird.

Pic 1: alien man
pic 2: called hands, i think it looks like a baby chick.
pic 3: triangles? arrows? directions? who knows!
pic 4: monkey!