We have been on the go now for almost two months and after quite a lot of adventure and rushing around, we decided we had earned a rest. With this in mind, we decided that a beach break was needed and booked our journey from Huacachina to Mancora, a beach town in the north of Peru. After a 5 hour bus ride to Lima and then a 17 hour bus ride on to Mancora we arrived to be greeted with a wonderful blue sky, mild breeze and beach, beach, beach and beach....! We were met at the bus terminal, as usual, by touts trying to persuade us that the hostel that they were spruiking was the one for us. We agreed with one of them and set off in the back of his moto-taxi (effectively a
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