Huanchaco

The beach town of Huanchaco presents a typical, if never boring scene-- surf, tourists, sand, sun and waves. But conspicuously present are caballitos de totora, a hilariously-shaped boat created more than 3000 years ago. It's still used for fishing-- and endless photo ops-- in Huanchaco.

Fisherman unknotting his net. He told me controling the boat was simply a question of equilibrium. "Do you ever fall?" I naively asked. "Never!" he replied.

Sunset and resting boats.

I stayed on land.