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South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora July 7th 2006

Another nightmare journey... the bus starts an hour late then breaks down at midnight so we have to change. Never woken so have to get off at the end of the line! 3 options, wait 2 hours for the bus to Mancora which takes 2 hours... Get in a dodgy local combi for 2 hours or pay the taxi driver 40 dollars to get me there in an hour. I opt for the last one as at 5am I just want to get to bed. Check into Sol y Mar, notorious for thefts but the cheapest place and right on the beach. Up at lunch time for sunbathing and manage to find the boys who also arrived that morning. That evening we eat at the hostel which does great food and bring our own rum and ... read more
Sunset in Mancora
Jenson and his mate
Local's birthday night

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora May 19th 2006

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 ... read more
Mancora - Our beach house
Mancora - Our beach house
Surfing with our hippy mate

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora March 20th 2006

Leaving Nazca on the Panamerican, the highway with so many stories....OK, how about...it was a dark and stormy night??….out across the desert, now this is serious desert, sandy, dusty, windy, so dry I can feel every drop of moisture in my body being sucked out, doesn’t help to be a little evaporated after another night on the pisco sours, cottonwool mouth, still lingering sinusitis, if I was able to spit it would be a ball of dust, if you sliced a potato here the slices would be chips before they hit the ground, and the dust again…but at least it’s hot, and there’s plenty of oxygen, down below 2,000 metres, and the brakes started working after only 11 kms and riding with my right hand down on my knee is getting more comfortable. From time to ... read more
Oasis in the middle of the desert

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora December 26th 2005

And so it was, after an unusual Christmas (in that we were away from our respective families and on the other side of the globe), that we were on the road again. The crossing to Peru was the first frontier of the journey after reaching South America, and WHAT a frontier it turned out to be! You can call me old-fashioned, but when I think "border" I think of a couple of buildings with lots of official looking types, some sort of no-man's land in between and some semblance of order. Was I ever in for a surprise! The border crossing at Agues Verdes is quite litterally a bridge, packed with people, goats, market stalls, you name it - and not one official border control at either end. What happens is that the bus stops in ... read more
The Pan American highway through Mancora
Mancora beach
View from a moto-taxi

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora October 13th 2005

Had a 14 hour drive the next day into Peru. In that time the landscape changes so much - from being able to see the volcano in all its glory, snow capped and smoking, amongst verdant montains, then to wend our way down massive valleys where the clouds were below us, to humid plantations of bananas for miles upon miles, through the Peruvian border control (lots of officials in a hut) and then into Peru where we immediately came to a coastal desert with nothing but scrub as far as the eye could see, lit up to pink and red by the sunset. We are staying for three days on the beach, near to a town called Mancora. It is absolutely scorchio and I got absolutely burnt, UK tourist style today. Tomorrow we have an early ... read more
High Mountains coming out of Banos
Lots of Bananas in Equador
Sun Bathing on Beaches of Northern Peru

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora July 11th 2005

Monday, July 11- Wednesday, July 13 Early Monday morning, we headed to the airport and boarded a flight to Piura, a city on the northern coast of Peru. The flight was awesome and Alex slept through most of everything. Again, I was pleased at the services at the airport. Everyone was pleasant and very well organized. This is NOT the same airport I first came to 11 years ago! In addition, I am not the only ´white girl´anymore. There are tourists everywhere- it was very exciting to hear lots of English. Well, once we got to Piura, things were not so great. Our combi driver told us that the ´tranportistas´ are on strike and we cannot take the main road. The main road is the PanAmerican Hwy and the road has been blocked. Our driver told ... read more

South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora June 16th 2005

Spent about 3 days lounging on the beach in Mancora, Peru. Got a really good sun tan, drank too many cervezas and didnt take any picutres!!... read more




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