Traveling on the dry windswept northern coast of Peru, beside a spectacular landscape, one finds interesting ways whereby people make a living. That’s how we stumbled on a strange little raft made of reeds used by fishermen in Huanchaco. It raised both eyebrows and interest. The large town is located 8.8 miles (14 km) northeast of Trujillo and 304 miles (489 km) from the capital Lima, on the Pan American highway. What a curious contraption, unlike anything one might expect for the task. And what, you ask, do they call it? Caballito de Totora; the name translates as “Little Horse of Totora”. It seems that we have both an unusual contraption and a contradiction - because the horse, ‘caballo’ or
