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The camera picked up some humidity from sea fog, so not as clear as the first video.
Flown over the main town, barnstormed a packing farm where my brother works, a couple of villages and a low path over an avocado orchard. followed by "crop dusting" a corn field. (need a Stearman for that).
Hope you like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtp-rYBA9uA&feature=youtu.be

Great ! What a Christmas you have mate ! Here is foggy, drizzling, snowing. No chance of flying only for xmas cakes, glühwein at the front of the fireplace and see your vids
Ricardo you are not spoiled there by a lotsa emergency landing space, if that thing stops to turn at the front.

Oh Man! I'm getting a serious case of "grass-envy" from watching your vids.

Ricardo,

What are the light colored mounds ahead and to the left at about 3 minutes into the video.

Neil

After matching the video to Google maps it appears the land is rich with archeological sites also. Very nice area indeed.

Quoted from nschmoker Ricardo,

What are the light colored mounds ahead and to the left at about 3 minutes into the video.

Neil

Neil: Those are dry hills. They are located right in the middle of the valley, as seen in picture below.
The coast of Peru is dry almost as the Sahara desert, it doesn' rain, all the green you see from the air is irrigated from a river (right side of picture) that starts up in the Andes mountains.
Plane in the  picture shows  runway location.

Quoted from nschmoker After matching the video to Google maps it appears the land is rich with archeological sites also. Very nice area indeed.

everything from the yucatan south is rich archeologically.  when we were in belize we were seeing all these hills in flat country.  the guide explained they arent hills they are buildings/temples that havent been excavated yet. they estimate they have only uncovered less than 2% of what is known.  you cant dig in the area without finding something from 2000 years ago...  its probably the same down there.

Not too long ago they discovered the oldest civilization in the new world only 150 miles north of Lima. It is named Caral and  dated around 5000 years old.
You can see some pictures here.

http://pe.images.search.yahoo......;fr=chr-greentree_ie

Unfortunately I'm not allowed to fly over LIma to get there.  Maybe some day, if I can haul the Max.

Very interesting ! Looking at the pictures 5000 years later I definately would ask the question of how they settled in the desert or was there a climate  change which made them vahished from there. Whats the story ?

Very interesting ! Looking at the pictures 5000 years later I definately would ask the question of how they settled in the desert or was there a climate  change which made them vahished from there. Whats the story ?

i would be willing to bet 5000 years ago there was a river which is now dried up or diverted elsewhere.  was probably lust pasture or farming land at that time.

You're right. The coast has suffered several climate changes, many of them due "El Niño"  a warm current from  the Pacific Ocean that once in while  shifts its course going  below the equator line creating tropical rains in desert areas, floods and severe climate follows. Many civilizations of the coast of Peru have vanished due climate changes. Also  earthquakes, as Dalek says, made some rivers change their  courses leaving dry land behind.
Maybe in the future the valley of the above picture  will be dry as CARAL.  

Yeah, wether its human made or natural, it influences our human life big time. 5000 years ago it was not CO emission question by burning fossil fuel.

no, it was probably the metane emissions from Pterodactyls  

Thanks Ricardo, make me want to brave the 30 deg temp and get in the air.

Monte