The Chauchilla cemetery is located 30 km from Nazca, in the Ica region of Peru, it is a place where the Nazcas and Huari (ancient Peruvian cultures) buried their deceased (2nd century BC), there we can see vestiges of these cultures, such as ceramics, textiles and mummies...
This tour lasts 3 hours, in that time we will visit three interesting places, the first is the Chauchilla cemetery, it is a pre-Inca cementery located 27 km southeast of the city of Nazca, here we will see the amazing landscapes of the desert.
The Chauchilla cemetery is one of the largest with a length of 2 kilometers, here we will see 12 tombs, you can see the original constructions of tombs, mummies, ceramics and textiles with an approximate age of a thousand years. We will be able to observe the mummification process that the ancient Nazca used to preserve the bodies.
Then we will visit the ceramics workshop, Nazca ceramics are considered the best ceramics in South America and you will be able to observe how Nazca artisans still use the techniques of their ancestors to make ceramics, in a very short time and by hand, you will also be able to observe the oxides of minerals that they used to obtain the colors.
The last place we will visit is the gold extraction workshop, where you can see how artisanal miners work inside the mines without using sophisticated machinery, they extract the minerals and transport them in sacks, carrying 70 kilos on their shoulders, then they have to Begin the process by mixing ore with mercury in a large mortar.
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