Nazca Lines Tour from Ica Without Flying: Viewpoint & Museum
From €92 per person
See availability →A Nazca Lines tour from Ica without flying: you see the geoglyphs from a metal viewpoint, stop at the Palpa figures and visit the María Reiche museum, with hotel pickup and drop-off.
Not everyone wants to board a small plane, and a Nazca Lines tour from Ica without flying shows that the desert drawings can be enjoyed with both feet on the ground. The day begins with pickup where you sleep in Ica or Huacachina, after which the vehicle heads down the Pan-American Highway to Nazca.
The first stop is the town of Palpa, where natural viewpoints reveal ancient geoglyphs that few visitors ever see. Next comes the Nazca metal viewpoint, a raised platform from which you can make out up to three figures: a tree, a pair of hands and a lizard. Unlike a flight, you set the pace here, and the guide explains the history, the symbolism and the theories about who made the lines and why.
The last visit is the María Reiche house-museum, the former home of the German scientist who devoted her life to studying and protecting the lines. You learn about her research and her legacy.
- You are collected and brought back at your Ica hotel
- Transport from Ica to Nazca and back
- Entrance to the museum and to the metal and natural viewpoints
The group is back in Ica in the afternoon, after a full day on the road.