We had an extra day in Puno to kill so that we could coordinate flights back to Lima with the accommodation we'd booked.
We decided to book a trip to the Silustani Burial Towers which are about a 40 minute drive north west of Puno.
The towers were built by a sucession of different cultures that had settled in the region over a period of over a thousand years. The tallest and most sophisticated in terms of stonework were built by the Incas in the 15th century.
They sit on a low moor-like hill above a small lake that itself overlooks Lake Titicaca.
The weather was wet and windy but our guide did his very best to speak above the wind and the flapping noise of rain ponchos.
Technically the dry season should have started already but the unseasonal rain poured on like we were visiting the Pennines rather than Peru. :)
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