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South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora August 8th 2011

On the 22h bus from Cusco to Lima, I decided that actually I fancied a few days on the beach, rather thasn in the mountains of Huaraz. This was quite a big descision in some respects, as it required a bit of rearranging. More than that, instead of another 8h bus, it meant that I had to get a 15h bus, followed by another 3 h colective taxi - so including transfer times, I was travelling for 42h by bus. This was not good. Needless to say, attempts at conversation with me towards the end were met with monosyllabic answers or a smile that didn't touch my eyes. However, at the end of it was Mancora, Peru's best beach. I am spending a few days here now, r&r before I head into the Amazon. It is ... read more

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora August 7th 2011

After leaving Huacachina i arrived into the greyness of Lima and, after spending an hour cycling in circles for a bit, eventually found the hostel to meet up with Jake again. I really did not like Lima as a city. It's absolutely huge and to get to the center from the Miraflores area, where all the tourists stay, it's a 30 min bus ride or 15 min taxi. While i was in Cusco i made a friend at the hostel who lives in Lima, so had a free guided tour of the city. In one day you can pretty much see all there is in Lima, walking round the center and going to a few museums. The highlight was probably the San Francisco monastery catacombs, where they buried the dead for a couple of hundred years. ... read more
Ruins at Caral
Caral Ruins

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora July 13th 2011

Finally left Huanchaco behind. Great place and very relaxed but time to move north. A quick flight landed me in Talara where I stayed overnight before heading off to Mancora. What a great place! Good beach, good food, nice people and places to stay to meet all budgets. I am going to post more pics tomorrow but here are the last few from Huanchaco and the first few taken as I checked out the area in Mancora.... read more
Mancora
Huanchaco
Huanchaco

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora May 3rd 2011

A few years ago I had been spending some time in the beautiful beach town of Mancora, a backpacker paradise in Northern Peru. I hadn't been there long when I met a young woman named Magda, I was immediately taken by her positive energy, endearing charm and wicked sense of humor, we quickly became friends and started spending our paradise holiday, doing yoga (attempting would be a more accurate word when describing my efforts) Vigorous walks on the beach and generally hanging out. As I got to know her better, her story and connection with Mancora became clear, she was on a mission. A few years previous she had paid a fair amount of money to volunteer with a program to teach local children English. It wasn't long before her excitement turned to despair as she ... read more
Mancora's unsung hero
Come on teach, the sun is shining
We love school

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora April 28th 2011

Arriving off the bus in Machala it felt like a blowtorch to the lungs, the heat is overwhelming and there is not even a hint of a breeze, within minutes our clothes were drenched, we needed a hostel now! We decided to go back to the place we had been last time The hotel Simon Boliviar knowing it had kick ass AC, Checked in and gratefully dropped our bags. It was still early so we decided to go for a wander, like any large town with little rain, few amenities and little in the way of public services the results are a dirty dangerous unkempt hovel of a place, We cautiously walked the pavements looking down instead of around us as the pavements were full of deep uncovered craters, now one sees this in lots of ... read more
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Giving it his all

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora April 9th 2011

C'est à Cajamarca que j'aurai fait la rencontre de deux voyageuses en solitaire qui se sont rencontrées plus tôt et avaient décidé de faire un bout de chemin ensembles. Deux femmes voyageuses de plus dans mon décompte de ces dernières, à en croire qu'il y en a effectivement beaucoup, et en apparence en plus grande quantité qu'en ce qui à trait à la gente masculine. Allant elles aussi en direction du Nord, je me suis joint à elles pour un séjour à Mancora, une des rares zones de plages du Nord du Pérou, donnant sur le Pacifique, où l'eau est suffisamment chaude pour y faire trempette. Mais avant de vous parler de ce lieux, je dois vous offrir cet avertissement gratuit (yeah!): Mesdames, Messieurs, lorsque vous voyagez en autobus, que vous vous arrêtez un 30 minutes ... read more
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South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora April 6th 2011

3-4 April 2011 – Mancora, Peru After a long 5 hour drive to southern Ecuador, through windy and some dirt roads (including being held up for 45 minutes due to a land-slide), we arrived at the Ecuador-Peru border. Wow, what an ‘interesting’ border crossing system. This is how it went: 1. Off the bus and get our passport stamped to get out of Ecuador 2. Onto a different bus where the bus company asked us to record our name and passport number in duplicate 3. We drove about 2 kms just past the border (a very dirty river demarcated Ecuador from Peru) and we stopped again to get our passport stamped for Peru 4. WE then drove a little further when we stopped in front of a building, got out of the bus, walked in one ... read more
We used 6 Motos for the group
Kimbas Hotel
Inside Kimbas Hotel

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora April 5th 2011

Hey hey We have been in the lovely Mancora for a week now and life is good! We are checked into Loki indefinitely and have a great dorm room with a bunch of girls from various parts of the globe who are all really lovely - so we got a little possy happening which is really cool! Mancora is absolutely goregous! The sun shines all day every day. The water is blue and warm. It´s ridiculously cheap. The people are friendly and the food is great! Life doesn´t get much sweeter than Mancora! The days are filled with lying on the beach under an umbrella ordering food and drinks from the cafes nearby! Surfing lessons occassionally but I went out day before yesterday and got a RUDE shock when I realised the swell had picked up ... read more
Green eggs and ham

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora December 8th 2010

8th Nov 2010 Having spent a few weeks in Mancora enjoying the sun, The job I come up here to do didn't pan out but thats ok better it happens now than when I am well into it. Mancora is a little different to a year ago, The road paving that was going on last year is now completed, The Artisania market is very pretty now with benches and new plants, making it a pleasant area to chill out and people watch, also the main street to the beach is is paved and clean, no longer a dirt track, the colorful shop fronts and restaurants looking pretty sharp. Some businesses have disappeared while other have popped up. The string of colorful tents that last year flanked the beach are gone with the seafront restaurants serving their ... read more
Surf boards
the Sunday's
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South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora November 29th 2010

As soon as we crossed the border into Peru the temperature rose by about 10 degrees, and we saw the sun for the first time in a while which was a nice welcoming. We entered via the Panamerican Highway which runs parallel to the coast, between the mountains and the sea. After about half an hour of driving through grassy land, we were into a barren and rugged landscape not dissimilar to that in The Hills Have Eyes. We were driving through the same unhabitable environment for what seemed like forever, when all of a sudden a town started to appear. Only on the coastal side of the road however, the other side remained rugged. We had arrived in Mancora which is a small beach/surfing resort in the north of Peru, and was our destination of ... read more
Loki Del Mar
anyone looking for a job
looking out to Mancora beach




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