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Pirwa Hostels in Nazca
Welcome to Pirwa Hostels in Nazca
Looking for a cheap hostel in Nazca with an unbeatable central location, comfortable accommodations, and friendly atmosphere? You´ll find all this and more at Pirwa Backpackers´ Hostel in Nazca, a relaxing gathering place for travelers from all over the world. Our bright and cheerful Pirwa Hostel is located just 3 blocks from the Main Square of Nazca, and since it´s only 5min to the bus terminal and 10min to the airport, we´ll be glad to pick you up (from 7am to 7pm this service is free)! In our outdoor patio you can take a siesta in one of the courtyard hammocks or throw a barbecue, making use of the self-catering kitchen if you get hungry or the free-wifi if you´d like to write home about your adventures. After a day of exploration in Nazca a comfortable bed with private bathroom, hot water 24hrs a day, and cable TV will await you.
The best promotions of Pirwa Hostels in Nazca
As a gift to our loyal guests & friends, if you stay with us at each stop: Arequipa, Nazca, Puno, Cusco, Machu Picchu, and Lima you´ll get a free night´s stay in whichever city you choose!
About Nazca
The dry and sunny city of Nazca in southern Peru is known as "The City of Eternal Summer". After trekking through some of the colder regions of the Andes, Nazca will be a pleasant refresher for you! In this arid region relics from the past are more easily preserved, although despite the abundance of surprising artifacts, including the Chauchillas mummies, the Cantayoc Aqueducts, and the art of the Paracas and Nazca Civilizations, this region is still shrouded in mystery. There´s still so much to uncover at the sacred Cahuachi Pyramids, still so little understood about the purpose of the Nazca Lines. When not engrossing yourself in a past thousands of years old, try some sandboarding along the giant dunes for a thrilling rush of adrenaline or experience local cuisine with a traditional local dish like charapana, or bufo, a fragrantly seasoned mutton head, pork strip, and tripe stew, alongside one of the various of home-fermented drinks in this region, which include cachina, from grapes, and the well-spiced chinchivi, from sugar cane. In Nazca you´ll find plenty of wonders to explore, and at Pirwa Hostels there´s a friendly staff waiting to help you do that!
Maria Reiche
Maria Reiche`s fascination with the Nazca Lines inspired her to dedicate more than 40 years to tirelessly studying the geometry of their lines and symbols. She swept them of debris, hired a night watchman to guard them, blocked plans to irrigate the land, built a watchtower so people would not damage them trying to get a view, and advocating for their official protection. It was she who theorized that the Nazca Lines are an astronomical calendar designed to please the gods and remind them of agricultural necessities, pointing out alignments with astronomical events, seasonal changes, and constellations. Her home is now a small museum exhibiting her cluttered tools, sketches, photos, models, and writings- all attesting to her singular fixation. Outside you can pay respects at her tomb.
See also Overflight Nazca Lines
Pampa Galeras Reserve
The grasslands reserve of Pampas Galeras in the chilly high Andean plains were created in 1967 to rescue its grazing Vicuña herds, although it protects a host of other endangered animals as well, including the Andean Condor, Andean Ostrich, and Suri Alpaca. Federal law prohibits the domestication of the elegant Vicuña, whose fine fleece is coveted. The Reserve promotes community development through sustainable management of this resource. Each year during the International Festival of Vicuñas, an impressive range of participants gathers for the Chaccu pre Inca corralling ritual. Locals and visitors from communities near and far form a human circle enclosing the extensive plains and vicuña and leading them to the corral for shearing through traditional music, songs, and spirited movements.
The Chauchillas Mummies
Thanks to the arid Nazca climate and a special resin used in burial rites, the mummified remains and archeological artifacts of Chauchillas Cemetery, just a couple miles from Nazca city, are stunningly preserved. Although raiders sacked the adobe tombs for their valuables, scattering bones, mummy bundles, and pottery, the ancient necropolis offers priceless insight into the enigmatic Nazca Civilization, with its displays of skulls deformed for aesthetic reasons and by brain surgery, "trophy head" collections (now known to have been for ritual and not trophy use), and headless bodies topped with "head jars", clay vessels with heads painted on them. The mummies still have hair and skin despite the thousand years that have passed. Chauchillas was in use for 600-700 years from 200AD on.
See also Tour Chauchillas cemetery
