The WalkOn Inn: The best hostel in town - Nazca

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Mucha gente se quedan estafados apenas llegando en Nazca. No seas uno de ellos. NO HGAS NEGOCIOS con la gente que trata de venderte un hotel / vuelo / tur al terminal de bus o en la calle. Todos los jaladores son mentirosos y estafadores. Toma tu taxi al hotel donde quieres ir y no dejes que sube alguien en el taxi contigo. Si sube alguien diga al chofer que no le pagas por el taxi si no bota el desconocido! Quidate que te llevan al lugar donde quisiste ir y no a otro lugar donde el taxista puede cobrar una comisión ! YA DEMASIADO GENTE HA SIDO ESTAFADO EN ESTA MANERA!
Los jaladores te pedirán donde quieres ir. Si mencionas un lugar en que no pueden sacar una comisión brutal, te dirán que no existe más, que está lleno de cucarachas o que está lleno (pero que es de su familia y que la familia tiene otro hotel que es lo mismo blah blah blah.) Te dirán cualquiera cosa para que cambies de idea. Muchos ofrecen vuelos baratos. Siempre es mentira. O sea nada está incluido y al final pagarás mas que todo el mundo, o sea es un asiento en el centro del avión así que no podrás ver nada o tal vez un vuelo de solamente 15 minutos en que no hay nada que ver tampoco.
SI HACES CASO A LOS JALADORES, ¡ PIERDA EL TURISMO SINCERO !
Túristas se meten en problemas. Esas son sus historias.

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FROM THE LONELY PLANET HANDBOOK on their website (scan the page with a "find" for the word Nazca.) "Though in most of the places in Peru I experienced touting, they never came right to my face unlike those in Nazca. It was 6am when I arrived and all I wanted was a good rest place and so I followed the guy to xxxxxxxx which is recommended in the Lonely Planet. Upon arriving at hotel xxxxxxxx ,there was a guy in the hotel recommending tours and I thought that he was a guy from the hotel so I agreed to tour a pottery demonstration factory and a mummification cemetery site. He came in a local taxi and took only myself to the pottery factory which was 5 mins from the hotel. At this point I was rather dubious of the tour as I was alone! The people in the factory were very accommodating and when they were done with the demonstration I went out and the guide was gone! I waited around an hour to see if he would return. I had to take a taxi back to the hotel. I confronted the front desk about the guide who had already received payment an did not fulfill his job (I even had a bogus receipt that I failed to realise at that point). They just behaved nonchalantly. Though the money lost is only 10USD it is very frustrating that the hotel allowed a fake guide in. My advice to travellers is that never trust anyone without an office for tours even if it's someone that "represents" your hotel."
What people write on their blog: Nasca + Lima ( read their blog ) 2006-06-22 We were informed by the guidebook to expect major hassle from touts when arriving in Nasca, and it was true. The touts were easy to get rid off though in comparison to the taxi drivers, none of them official looking. They were really fighting for our business, dropping their price for driving us into the centre (which was about two blocks away so it shouldn`t cost that much anyway), but we went with the one the touts told us was official, who of course ended up demanding three times as much money as the ones who were unofficial for sure (though still less than a dollar). One of the touts forced his way in the taxi with us- you`re not supposed to share taxis but seriously what are you supposed to do about it if he jumps in when you`re already taking off? This guy tried to make us come to his hotel, buy his tours etc. but we managed to stick to our choice of hotel. This sounds easier than it is as these people can be very persistent and in some cases you have to become rude to be rid of them. So just getting off the bus and getting to a hotel was quite an ordeal but what can you do. We stayed in the former Via Morburg Hotel, now under new management and renamed the WalkOn Inn, which was very friendly and helpful, and arranged a flight over the Nasca lines for us, which was what we were there for. The night before the flight we went to a lecture about those lines and what scientists theorise they could mean in a planetarium, we were invited to look at Saturn, Jupiter and several stars through a telescope as well, it was very interesting and informative. The next day we were picked up at the hotel (half an hour early!) to go to the airport. After a short wait we met our pilot who took the two of us and one other up in the sky in a tiny airplane! I was expecting nausea but was not quite prepared for feeling quite as horrendous as I did. On my birthday! However I wouldn`t have missed it for the world although I`m never doing it again. I hadn`t imagined you`d be able to see the lines as clearly as you can. Very impressive.	(note: Dilva is the administrator of the WalkOn Inn) "Im Bus von Ica nach Nazca sprach uns ein Junge an, der ebenfalls mit seiner Freundinn nach Nazca reiste. Er sprach fliessend Deutsch, da er, wie er sagte, zwei Jahre in Deutschland war, um die Sprache zu lernen.Er gab uns Tips ueber Unterkuenfte in Nacza und die Fluege. Er was sehr freundlich und zuvorkommend. Im Laufe des Gespraeches stellte er uns eine Tour vor, die mehrere Sehenswuerdigkeiten in Nazca beinhaltete. In Nazca begleitete er uns zum Hotel und bot uns an, dass wir die Toru bzw. die Fluege uebr ihn buchen koennten. Da er fliessend Deutsch sprach und uns auch vor "Abzockern" gewarnt hatte und ausserdem Bolletos von einer in Nacza ansessigen Agentur hatten, beschlossen wir zu buchen, da uns dies alles sehr vertrauenswurdig schien. Wir buchten die Tour einmal (fuer 10 $) und den Flug und die Tour (40 $). Er sagte, wir wuerden fuer den Flug am naechsten morgen um sieben uhr abgeholt. Er stellte uns die Bolletos der Agentur aus. Am naechsten morgen kam leider niemand um uns abzuholen. Als wir uns daraufhin mit Hilfe von Dilva an die Agentur wandten, gab diese an, dass alle Flugzeuge kaputt seien und sie kein Geld erhalten haben. Ausserdem wuerde der Junge nicht mehr fuer die Agentur arbeiten. Unsere Bolletos sind daher ungueltig. Auf die Frage, warum der Junge Bolletos von der Agentur habe, wurde uns keine Antwort gegeben. Der Fall wurde der Polizei gemeldet. Leider war die "Polizia Turistica" am Sonntag nicht verfuegbar. Es bleibt uns nach wie vor unverstaendlich, wieso die Agentur solchen Leuten Bolletos ausgiebt - schliesslich schadet dies dem Ruf der Agentur enorm." I hope this is enough information. Dilva helped us a lot in this issue. Thank her very much again for her ccoperation. I don't know if the documents from the polica are so important, that you need to arrange a meeting with us in Lima...it will not bring the money back ;-) Regards, Jonas & Fabian