Nazca by Rowan

First of all, I’m going to tell you four theories that people have come up with, and mine, for what made the Nazca lines. At the end of the blog, tell me what you think.

1) Aliens, also known as ducks (check out their space boots if you don’t believe us)
2) Nazca people drawing them to keep the gods happy
3) Water underground forming the lines
4) A map of water sources for the people who lived there

OK. We believe that it was an alien airport, but you can believe whatever you like. No one knows why or how the lines got there – give us your opinion in a message. We do know they were made about 2,000 years ago, they are figures up to 300m big and most are only visible from the air. There are triangles, trapezoids and straight lines like runways, a monkey, a parrot that does not look like a parrot, a duck (alien), hummingbird, the spider, an alcatraz (don’t ask what that is), some hands attached to a very weird thing, a tree, a condor, a dog, a whale and an astronaut.

Now, I am going to give you the evidence for each theory.
1) Aliens (ducks): first thing is there is a duck at the end although this isnt on my certificate (this is a dead giveaway) and also they found skulls there that are too small and with very long back bits. And there is an astronaut waving and the lines are really straight like runways. The triangles and trapezoids are so like runways.
2) The Nazcan people. These people are very fishy because they kept drawing a weird god with too many eyes and too many arms on their pots. It also had teeth like a cat. They do say that the animals were friends of the shamans, and that the shamans could change into them. But what we don’t get is that the monkey looks like a white faced capuchin monkey, which doesn’t live anywhere near Nazca. How did they know what it looked like? Could the Nazca people be visited by aliens? Could the hands just be the people asking for water, as there hasn’t been much rain at Nazca since the ice age, and there was meant to be a big drought 2000 years ago.
3) Water tunnels underground: Rubbish. How could they have shaped any animals or people?
4) Map showing the water sources: could be, but the funny things is the triangles and trapezoids are all pointing to sources of water. But how did they do these perfect drawings when they couldn’t see them? We don’t know. We can only guess. The Nazca people didn’t leave any writing at all. They obviously hadn’t developed writing then.

Now I’m going to tell you about the journey and all that malarkey.

One early morning, with a yawn and a jump and a skip and a hop, we get up, we get dressed, we don’t get breakfast – which I don’t think is very fair – we get into a FOUR hour journey across the desert to the lines and then find there is a swimming pool at the other end, and Mum didn’t bring the swimming costumes! (Editors note: she wasn’t told there WAS a swimming pool there …)
OK, now, we go to reception (bom, bom bommmm!) and Rhys starts crying. “I don’t wanna go! I don’t wanna go!” So, Dad takes Rhys back to Mum, and he doesn’t go. Mum and Jenna didn’t go because someone had told them it goes bump, bump, bump, bump, bump like a rollercoaster or falling down the stairs in a tin can. So Rhys, Mum and Jenna stayed; Dad me and the tour guide proudly wrote our names in the flight book that shows we’ve been here. And then, we walked out to our tiny airplane which only had 4 seats in it: one was the pilot’s, one was Dad’s (he sat next to the pilot) and me and the tour guide sat in the back. She had to come because they had to weigh the plane down. We sped down the runway, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, and then we’re off! They told me there is a sick bag right by you, but you don’t HAVE to use it if you don’t want to.

We zoomed in on the whale, shweeeesh, then we turned around quickly, then we did the same with the triangles. Wheeeeeeeeee! Then the trapezoids, woooosh! Then ZOOM round the astronaut! ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! And then past the monkey … rachhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooo …. then the dog, POOOOOOOOOFFFFF ,. then the condor, neaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww, then the spider, wwwiiiiccccccchhhh …. and the hummingbird, chuc a chuc a chuc a chuc oooooooohhhhhh …. then the alcatraz, what IS that??? A parrot that doesn’t look anything like a parrot, BOOOOMMMMMM, some hands attached to a weird thing, tik a tik a ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttrrrrrrruchhhh … a tree with the roots sticking out of the ground, booooooooooochhhhhh, plop … and then down down past a surprise trip to a duck. I spotted the animals and figures first, mostly. And it wasn’t just the figures I’ve said, no. They had lots of lines like a grid trying to show where everything would be when they were drawing them.

It was really, really fun and I wasn’t sick at all (ok but I had taken a travel sickness tablet). But then, we zooooomed down the runway and landed. And then we came back, we got a certificate, and there is a picture of me, and the pilot and the tour guide and the plane that you can see. The funny thing is that I forgot to mention earlier is that they have started to find lines like those at Nazca all over the Americas. They found one in a national reserve, that is like a candelabra or a cactus that we saw the next day. They found a llama in Chile and a bear in Canada.

On my certificate it said Aeroparacas certifies that Rowan has overflown the famous Nazca lines, declared the cultural heritage of mankind by UNESCO, on 28 November 2006 on board of our aeroplane OB547.

Mum, me, Rhys, traveller beaver, Dad and Jenna went up a tower and saw the hands and the tree again. Mummy felt very sick because it was high and the tower was actually swaying as you went up it. It was really great.

Give me your theories in a message, I’m waiting to hear from you!

By Rowan, dictated to Mum