Oct 4, 2016.  Night bus Arequipa > Cabanaconde 

• Up at 7, juice at the Mercado across the street, short walk to the main plaza to grab a taxi to the Toro Muerto petroglyphs a few kilometers away.  Wide open desert-like slope covered with boulders, many with incised images of animals, people, zig zag lines, even a few "spacemen" that Erich Von Däniken used as evidence for extraterrestrial visits in his book Chariots of the Gods.   As usual, had the place to myself.

• Three hour bus ride back through truly desolate scenery, arriving at the terminal terrestre around 2 PM to discover the next bus for Colca Canyon didn't leave until midnight.  OK, 10 hours to burn.  I'll take the bus through to Cabanaconde and arrive as the sun comes up.