Day 6: August 25

Around 10 in the morning, the fog cleared and the sun appeared
We were heading on another free tour from PeruHop. The winery tour promised to be interesting, but…

Peru’s national drink (although Chile tries to deny it) is pisco. Simply put, it’s Peruvian brandy.
Yes, grapes are grown in Peru. Thanks to the Spaniards, who brought them here from Europe. 


First, the guide very briefly talked about how wine and pisco are made, and then there was a tasting.

Everything happened very quickly, without soul. It felt like it was all arranged just to sell their wine afterward.
The wine was interesting, completely unlike the wine I was used to.

For some reason, I remembered Crimean wines, which smelled very delicious, but were they really made from grapes?

We tasted red, rosé, and white wines. They were all very sweet, but tasty.
After the wine, we tasted pisco and a pisco cocktail. The cocktail was similar to “Baileys,” pisco with condensed milk.

I got drunk quickly :) I only took a tiny sip of the pisco.

Then there was lunch at the same place (lunch was not free :)) - green rice that smelled of cilantro, a piece of meat, and a tasty soup with potatoes.
We ate our fill, so we didn’t want to eat until morning. Unfortunately, we didn’t take a photo of lunch.

After that, we headed to Nasca.

Nasca is a small town known for the lines (geoglyphs) that, to this day, no one really understands who “drew” them in the middle of the desert and why.

Some of the lines depict figures. Some simply depict nothing and look like straight narrow roads.

To see the figures, you need to climb to a sufficient height.
The cheap option is the observation tower they brought us to. From the tower, you can see 3 figures - the “tree,” the “hands,” and the “lizard.”

Other figures can be seen from a plane. The flight costs $100 for half an hour over the desert. We decided that the tower was enough for us.

In the town of Nazca, we had an hour of free time. It was warm, and the sunset bathed the town in a golden-copper light.
Even though the town has only a couple of streets, we took a nice walk before the overnight transfer to Arequipa.