Today we checked out of our hotel in Puno and wound through one-way streets and impossible alleys until we finally got back out to the countryside. We always prefer driving in the country. We drove about 400 kilometers and it took about 8 hours with lots of stops for photos and a snack lunch of apples and nuts. We stopped to photograph a graveyard and met a young shepherd named Hernando Catchatory. He was ten years old and scared of us. We might as well have dropped from a flying saucer! Some candy made him feel better.
We made it back to Cusco in plenty of time to go to Cicciolina's for tapas to celebrate Valentine's Day. The highlight of the dinner was an earthquake that shook the whole building! We read on the internet later that it was a significant quake in northern Peru but minor where we were.
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