Everybody's gone surfing!!!

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Distracted for 2 months by the vastness and beauty of the sights in South America, we've finally arrived at the beach to expose our lily white asses to the sun and start surfing.

Mancora is a very laid back little surf-village near Ecuador, blessed with warm water and numerous good surf spots. We treated ourselves to a 9 bedded apartment overlooking the sea for the first few days but the cost of this shag pad and being woken by our gay landlord with his wrinkley lovers in the jacuzzi every morning forced us to review our options.

We moved into a bamboo beach bungalow with some wild friends who taught us how to really party, hence the hours we were going to dedicate to surfing reduced significantly.

Nevertheless we had some great surf condtions and met some fantastic characters.

Fonchie was our 60 year old drug-fueled surf guide. He drove a bread-bin combi and blared Roxette from his sound system( not the image i had envisaged when i dreamt of my initiation into the surfing culture!). Luckily though, he was sober, as he drove us to various surf-spots, the door-handles of his combi inoperable, as was the hand-brake. We did hear some hilarious stories from our Brazilian friend who went out with him again, although this time Fonchie was stoned and got pulled over for driving on the wrong side of the road, and argued with the cop until he let him off!

So our time was spent surfing, chilling and partying on the Peruvian beaches; a welcome tranquility after our previous exertions.. and good rest before we made for the mightly Amazon rainforest.

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Photos

Mancora - Our beach house
The view from our open-air bedroom.

Mancora - Our beach house
Breakfasts on the balcony

Surfing with our hippy mate
Good ol Fonchie - his van´s doors didn´t open from the inside and the handbrake was broken. Quite interesting when he parked next to a cliff and the car started rolling...

The locals
This dude from the hostel, ´´Chancho'', adopted one of our friends and followed her evrywhere. Not much of a looker, but the chicks LOVED him!

Surfing with our Aussie mates
Giddy up

Boozing at the beach bungalow
Yes, we had downgraded, but what fun.

Endless beaches
Awesome for early morning runs