The Best Sight in The Southern Coast, Peru

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We've compiled the best of the best in The Southern Coast - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.

Casa-Museo Maria Reiche

To see where a lifelong obsession with the Nazca Lines can lead you, head to the former home of the German anthropologist who devoted her existence to studying them. There's little explanatory material here among the pottery, textiles, mummies, and skeletons from the Paracas, Nazca, Wari, Chincha, and Inca cultures, so don't expect any grand archaeological revelations. What you'll see instead is the environment in which Maria Reiche lived and worked. A scale model of the lines is behind the house; her grave lies not far away. Take a taxi to the Km 421 marker to reach the museum, which is 28 km (17 miles) from town.