The sign leading to the Chauchilla Cemetery in Nazca, Peru.
A selfie on the way to Chauchilla Cemetery in Nazca, Peru.
At the Chauchilla Cemetery in Nazca, Peru
Raul Palomino of Nazca Trips at the Chauchilla Cemetery in Nazca.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
On our 2013 visit to Peru we visited the Chauchilla Cemetery. This is a view out at the shelters covering excavated graves.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
Our guide Raul was informative and passionate about what he was talking about. It was fun and interesting to have him as a guide.
There were walkways created with rocks between shelters at Chauchilla Cemetery.
The desert around Chauchilla Cemetery.
Chauchilla Cemetery is one of the lesser known things to do in Peru.
Our guide Raul did an excellent job of leading us around the graves at Chauchilla Cemetery, which have been well preserved due to the dry desert climate.
The preservation of the skeletons at Chauchilla Cemetery was eerie.
Chauchilla Cemetery mummies in Nazca, Peru.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
The graves at Chauchilla Cemetery almost looked as if they’d been designed as houses for the dead.
More graves at Chauchilla Cemetery.
The graves at Chauchilla Cemetery were spread out across a wide area.
Some of the rocks from the Chauchilla Cemetery that were left behind by looters. The Peruvian government restored some of the looted graves with left behind artifacts like these in 1997, but some still remain.
Some preserved structures and artifacts at Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
The desert around Chauchilla Cemetery.
This grave at Chauchilla Cemetery was that of a younger person.
The Chauchilla Cemetery was a setting in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
More rocks piled up at Chauchilla Cemetery in Nazca, Peru.
Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
Another grave at Chauchilla Cemetery, Nazca, Peru.
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