An interlude in Mancora

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Taking a break from Tumbes, we caught a minibus down to Mancora for two nights and three days.

Mancora is a popular beach holiday town with a huge number of resorts and hostels and a large tourist turnover.

Arriving, we caught a mototaxi towards our nominal destination, but the driver convinced us there were better places to go, as the one we had selected was too far removed from the beach.
After checking out a couple of resorts that charged way too much, we arrived at El Refugio (the refuge) where the rate was more reasonable due to off season discounting, though still expensive by general Peru rates.

So, for US$80 per day we got a bungalow next to the pool and beach, including breakfast and lunch.
Best of all though, because we were here during the week in quiet season, we had our own private resort.
We were the only people in the whole place.

This was a very very nice break.

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Photos

View from the front of our bungalow
It was a chore slogging all the way to the beach or pool, which is directly to the right of our bungalow

This is the crowded beach we had to deal with
Maybe saw a dozen people on the beach the whole time, all of them either passing through or over a kilometre away.

Victoria at the pool bar
No one running the bar, but still nice

Teaching Victoria to swim
Because we had the whole place to ourselves I managed to convince Victoria to get wet so I could start teaching her to swim

Body surfing
The beach shelved quite gently and while the waves were not huge, they were quite good for body surfing

Stranded seahorse
On a walk we saw a few of these, one of which was still alive, so I chucked it back into the water.

Bungalow bedroom
The room was large with bed, chairs, tv and ceiling fan

Bungalow Bathroom
The bathroom was big and the shower even produced hot water most of the time