In the afternoon of our Nazca day we had the option to visit Chauchilla Cemetery, the remains of a pre-Inca cemetery in the dessert from around 1000 to 1300 AD.

We had a few stops on our way to the cemetery (roughly 30kms from Nazca); Hilda, our local guide, gave us some good introductions to the local flora and fauna (including some explanations on cochineal red and a local tree).

When we finally arrived at the cemetery, it was pretty obvious that grave robbers had been here first; bone shards and clothes fragments could be seen anywhere around the cemetery.