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Nasca Lines, Peru (9)
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!
