Chauchilla Cemetery,Nazca Tours-Peru
- over 6 years ago
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his Tour Takes 3 hours in this time we are going to visit 3 interesting places, the first place is going to be Chauchilla Cemetery, it is a pre- Inka cemetery located 27 km south east from Nazca city to get there, we take the Pan-American high way 20 km south in the way to Arequipa, then we are going to turn to the left side to continue 7 km east by a dirt road, we are going to see the amazing landscape of the desert. Chauchilla cemetery is one of the biggest cemeteries with a dimension of 2 km long by 500 mts wide, at the cemetery we are going to see 12 graves, you are going to see original constructions of graves, mummies, potteries and textiles approximately 1000 years old. You are going to see individual graves and collective graves; we are going to know how was the mummification system the ancient Nazcans used to conserve the body as well.