Posted by Michael (Wuppertal, Germany) on 4 December 2007 in Landscape & Rural.
The Nasca lines: The painting of a monkey. As I mentioned before: You are unable to see this figures painted on the desert ground when you are just on the standing in it. Only from the air you can spot these figures as a whole painting! Tomorrow you can have a very special look with the sister (Dr. Renate Reiche) of the researcher Dr. Maria Reiche from the ground level
Maria Reiche in her book "Mystery on the desert" about this drawing: "This drawing consists of no more than two elements. One is a wide line with a stem which, almost a mile long, leads into the maze of lines at the edge of the pampa. The other is one single uninterrupted line, that starts from one side of the long surface and after describing the contours of the monkey, consisting only of curves, runs through two different zig-zag shapes and crosses sixteen times over the geometric surface at whose top it finally ends."
Due to my work I am not able to answer your posts at once- but be sure, every of your highly appreciated comments is read! I will always have a look to your pictures at aminus 3- even there might no be a post underneath!
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Neat shot! That's a huge drawing, it's amazing how they drew those without the help of an aerial view and modern communication.
4 Dec 2007 1:01am
@Stunner: Thank you, Stunner. There have been also great articles in the National Geographic Magazine about the lines.
Sehr imposant...
4 Dec 2007 8:47am
@Wolfgang Prigge: Danke sehr!
This is the image about which I read in an article the other day. Nice Shot.
4 Dec 2007 10:22am
@Pavan: Thanks for visiting!
Remarkable shot, well done!
4 Dec 2007 12:05pm
@DaveB: Thank you, Dave!
I am still in awe, how did they do that without beeing in the air (so we think)!
4 Dec 2007 1:26pm
@ManuelaR: Yep, thats quite an interesting question with very different answers...
WOW. As Alice would say, this is getting Curioser and curioser!!! Truly STUPENDOUS subject and image, Michael!!!
4 Dec 2007 5:11pm
@Rebecca: Thank you, Rebecca!
Another great shot!
4 Dec 2007 6:29pm
@shahab: Thank you, Shahab!
It's like looking at a story book. Fantastic.
4 Dec 2007 8:03pm
@Gary: Thank you, Gary! Indeed it´s a kind of story book. There are much more lines there than I had posted here. It would fill pages galore of a book!
cool image. Thanks for capturing beauty.
4 Dec 2007 11:22pm
@Rags: Thank you, Rags!
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