Chauchilla Cemetery Tour with a Ceramics Workshop Stop
From €40 per person
See availability →A Chauchilla cemetery tour into the desert near Nazca to see tombs over a thousand years old, then a ceramist's workshop and a gold miners' site.
The Chauchilla cemetery tour heads into a desert area roughly 28 kilometres from the city of Nazca, where a necropolis dating from the Ica-Chincha culture period, over a millennium old, lies. Your guide picks you up at your hotel and drives you there in private transport, with admission covered.
Treasure seekers plundered this pre-Inca burial ground for years, wrecking tombs and carrying off the goods buried beside the dead. Still, the visit shows skeletons and skulls, intact tombs over a thousand years old, plaits of human hair and the mummified bodies of children.
- Chauchilla, the cemetery itself
- back in Nazca, a ceramist's workshop that explains how the civilization developed and how its colourful pottery was made two thousand years ago
- a site where informal miners pull gold out of the rock in very harsh conditions
The tour lasts about three hours, the guide speaks Spanish and English, and you are taken back to your hotel at the end. Food and drinks are not included.