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Chauchilla Pre-Inca Cemetery

A pre-Incan graveyard filled with mummies
preserved in time by the hot, dry desert environment

Price: The tour costs 40 soles per person for travellers who are by themselves, or 30 soles per person for groups of two or more people. Additional costs: 5 soles per person entrance fee to the archaeological site.

Tour Duration: 3 hours

What is Chauchilla?

Centuries ago, Chauchilla was the site of a sacred cemetery for members of the Nazca culture, who buried their beloved dead relatives there. Because this tribe had the tradition of placing offerings of ceramics and gold jewelry along with the bodies, Chauchilla became an attractive site for looters.
These grave robbers stole all the valuable artifacts, leaving only the mummified bodies which were thought not to have any financial value. To this day, skulls, bones and entire mummified bodies can be seen in their ancient tombs, along with fragments of ceramics and human hair and pieces of fabrics.

Description of the Tour

Our clients are picked up at the designated time from their hotel by our local guide, and afterwards we will drive to the south of Nazca, following the Pan American Highway for about 21 kilometers, and then onto a dirt road of 7 kilometers that leads to the archaeological site of Chauchilla.

In the graveyard of Chauchilla we will visit many tombs containing ancient pottery and humans remains. Our guide will be in charge of leading you throughout the place and explaining about this culture that flourished in the area some 1000 years ago. In addition to the tombs, our customers will also enjoy a beautiful desert landscape surrounded by colourful hills. After touring Chauchilla, we will go back to Nasca to visit a ceramic studio, where a craftsman will give us a good explanation about the Nazca ceramics. Here we will be able to learn step by step all the process involve in the elaboration of Nazca vessels, as well as purchase some Nazca ceramics and others souvenirs.

To end the tour on a "bright" note, we will also visit a local place where miners are working hard in order to extract gold. Here a miner will explain the traditional peruvian method of extracting gold ore.

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