tricky

"It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice"

Richard Morrison

33 / Male

Edinburgh, Scotland

About tricky

Respected Member | Member since 23rd Feb 06

Citizenship: United Kingdom
Marital Status: Married
Hobbies:

Sport, sport, and more sport.

Favourite places:

I absolutely love Scotland. North Sweden is awesome and I like the Turkish coast.

Activity : photos (184) forum (268) guide (0) blog (38) diary (0) trips (1)

Latest Blog Entry

The End is Nigh

Posted by tricky | 21st April 2008

One of the many mysteries Peru has to offer are the Nazca lines. That was to be the next place on our hit list before finally bringing the trip to an end with some relaxation. We arrived in Nazca at 4.15am and were picked up by someone from the airport, where in turn we hung out for another 4 hours. It turned out the airport had been closed the day before so there were quite a few flights to be caught up on and we were pushed back the queue a little.

By the time we finally got on our 6 seater plane - 5 tourists and 1 pilot - we had discovered the airport had closed the previous day because of an accident which killed 5 French tourists. Hardly re-assuring but we were here now and on the runway. The flight lasted just over 30 minutes and we passed over around 15-18 different sets of lines in the desert. There are many stories as to how they first appeared there ranging from aliens to early serttler's using them for sport to agriculture. The only sure thing is that the shapes th

Continued | The Adventures of the Morrisons