Máncora, Peru Travel Blogs

PERU! Beach time
Dec 5, 2006 (5 photos)

Mancora, a classic surf town, our first stop in Peru. Three days of getting our Caribbean tans back, reading books, partaking in some lazy surfing   and chortling at Peruvian attempts to translate their Spanish menus to English. ...

Merry Mancora Christmas
Dec 25, 2005 (1 photos)

Happy Christmas everyone!!! My Christmas was spent in the North Peruvian beach resort of Mancora. My hotel is right on the beach so at 6.30am on Christmas morning I walked out onto the sand to greet the festive day. There was a group of about 20 other ...

Mancora, Huanchaco, Huaraz
Oct 11, 2006 (26 photos)

... is what the locals seemed to be doing. The Northern Coastal Towns After a quick change of buses in Tumbes, we arrive in Mancora, a dusty desert town on the coast and with a constant gleaming blue sky. The town has a kind of laid back traveler feel ...

Still Healing
Sep 27, 2005 (16 photos)

... something... anything. I no longer eat for the pleasure of the experience...I eat simply for fuel. The big cities in Peru promise a better international selection but for now, I'm stuck. One of the more interesting characters I've met is Felipe, a ...

Mancorá A.K.A Little India
May 23, 2006 (3 photos)

... Spanish. I then met him again in the Pantanal, Brazil at the start of March. Now two months later in the north of Perú! South America is much smaller than I´d originally thought. Later that night we visited the restaurant of a British ex-pat, he made ...

Beaching it at Mancora
Sep 9, 2006

... throughout the Americas and Europe. It is a fairly easy language to pick up as well. I´m in Mancora... a beach resort on the northern coast of Peru. It is a small town and very simple but has a great climate, friendly people, an outstanding nightlife ...

Connecting my heart with the flow of the ocean
Jun 12, 2008 (24 photos)

Deeply meditating on the beach, driven by the waves breaking in the distance, I connected profoundly within my heart where the flow of the ocean merged perfectly with the pulsations of my heart.  All was perfect, I was home and my tears of joys ...

Surfers paradise in Peru!
Nov 26, 2008 (19 photos)

... mountainous environment had changed to a dry, hilly and dusty landscape covered in patches of scrub brush.    Mancora is a popular holiday destination for Peruvians and foreigners alike and has a few dozen hotels and hostels dotted along its ...

The Beach
Sep 6, 2005 (9 photos)

... has been using since 2002, into Peru's currency, the Nuevo Sol. After the border, I made my way to the beach community of Mancora. I need a place to let my foot rest and recover and this seems like the place to do it. It is low season right now and ...

Warm water
Aug 21, 2005

... , but great fun. The one stand out day was a surf trip Kiki, Andrew, Glenn and I took to a remote beach South of Mancora. We hired the services of a local guide and headed out in the early morning. The scenery on the way was arid desert interspersed ...

Happy Halloween from South America!!!
Nov 6, 2008 (23 photos)

... in Alaska I am due for some fun in the sun and surf with a little healthy bikini action thrown in for good measure.  I'm in Mancora Peru, a place I sort of know well from my first time through here in 2005.  The last time , however, I was  ...

Mancora - Hippee Surfer Paradise
Aug 4, 2004 (5 photos)

... the 80s). We started singing to Funky Town and Grease...badly, and not long after the music was back to Salsa. Ok...now Mancora! it is a beach town, kinda a beach shanty town really. Nothing like I have ever been to before. Very basic, but chilled ...

Peru..... hot hot hot!!
Dec 18, 2004 (1 photos)

... from monkeys to ice cream! Fortunately border was open after recent strikes so major problem was arranging transport from border to Mancora when we eventually found our driver who had disappeared to buy oranges!! Worth the trip and have spent a very lazy ...

Election Update
May 24, 2006 (7 photos)

... architects) and a beautiful nearby beach town that reminded us of Santa Cruz (Ca). We also visited the sleepy resort town of Mancora, just south of Ecuador, where I celebrated my birthday. (Time marches on even when you are on vacation.) Next stop will ...

Mancora, Peru
May 23, 2007 (15 photos)

Well having overnighted it up th coast of Peru, me, Niamh and Gemma arrived in the liitle beach paradise of Mancora at about 8 am.  Me and Gemma left Niamh on the beach with the bags and went in hunt of somewhere to stay.  After a little while we ...

Máncora
Feb 1, 2008 (19 photos)

... . I had a good company on the way: a doctor working in Lima and going home to rest (in a town about 2 h away from Mancora). A good thing about travelling alone is that you are more open to meet new people and make friends. The bad thing is that then you ...

Mancora...not what i expected
Dec 7, 2009

The word around Monatńita was Mancora was the Monatńita of Peru- the only similarities i can see is there is a surf break.  It is noisy here- tuk tuks and traffic create choas on the main street- the beach is crowded! However...it is SUNNY and hot! Our ...

Kicking back and relaxing with sun, sea and sand
Oct 30, 2009

... the sunset again... and we are still in the same place!!!! Back on the move tomorrow though, We spent our last day in Mancora relaxing, wandering up the beach, surf watching, and disposing of our coca leaves before the border! Al also spent most of his ...

A shady start in Peru, then a few days in the sun
Aug 1, 2007 (4 photos)

... had suggested as my first stop in order to recoup from our night bus trip and shaky start in the country.  Máncora - with its perfectly sunny days, fresh fish cooked any way imaginable, and giving you nothing to concern ...

The Journey North
Sep 27, 2008

... ask some other touristy looking folks if they want to split a cab. He manages to find a couple from Sweden who are also heading to Mancora - and voila! Our cab ride is now $20..... Our bags arrive!! Yay! And we pile into the cab for what is to be our ...

Mancora
Apr 29, 2009 (7 photos)

... . Spent the first two nights at Loki ' the gringo tourist hangout, but then found an amazing and cheaper hotel along the beach. Mancora overflows with young tourists from around the world, as I met and hung out with a Dutchman and 2 Swedish girls at the ...

Surf Central
Nov 27, 2006

... managed to score the 'downstairs', 'first class' seats on the overnight bus and were woken to find the bus sitting at Mancora station. We quickly, sleepely gathered our possessions and jumped off the bus before it sped of to its next destination. We had ...

These Things Just Don´t Last That Long
Apr 29, 2008 (16 photos)

... before passing out.  That´s exactly what Eric and I thought we´d do to make the interminable journey from Lima to Mancora less oppressive.     Unfortunately for us, the folks at Cruz Del Sur had other plans and they confiscated the rum and ...

Sun, seafood, and coconuts
Aug 13, 2007

... of the Pacific were lapping the white sandy beaches lined with palm trees, thatched huts, and seafood restaurants. Perfect. Mancora is Peru's beach resort par excellence, and it is head and shoulders above anything else I have seen on the Pacific side of ...

Punta Sal, Peru
Jun 6, 2007 (9 photos)

... the ´leaving one country border stop´, then a period of no-mans land, and then the entering the new country stop´, AND the peru border was like a strip of tacky stalls and random buildings! You´d never have known where to go or that it was a sigificant place ...

Endelig strand! -Finally at the beach...
May 28, 2007 (6 photos)

Forlod Huaraz lige efter trekking turen. 24 timer og 4 busture senere naaede vi frem til Máncora i det nordlige Peru. Endelig ved stranden... Nu skal der slappes af og nydes sol! After 4 bus rides and 24 hours we made it to the warm and nice Máncora ...

Bordering on the Ridiculous!
May 3, 2009

... we hit the gringo trail in Cusco.   After 2 days it was time to move on - we had seen enough of Mancora and enough of Peru in general. After the great time we had in Bolivia, we both felt that Peru was full of conmen and rip off merchants. It ...

Too much of a good thing
Sep 29, 2008

Can be wonderful!! We are having an amazing time on the beach - doing a whole lot of nothing.....our day today went something like this: 6:00am Rhea wakes thanks to going to bed early, a crappy (the crappiest yet) bed, and the sound of the ocean. ...

Mancora to Arequipa
Jul 7, 2006

Well our time in Mancora is nearing its end. It is hard for both of us to leave but hey can you blame us...lazy days on the beach, drinks everynight at sunset, surfing, kokadas(fried coconut...had to try it once)...Sounds like this is an online dating ad. ...

Mancora - Surfing in shorts and the birthday bash
Nov 23, 2007 (3 photos)

... came to a skid stop right beside a big police jeep, which quietened us fairly fast!  So we stayed for about 10 days in Mancora, after which we had enough, I had a little run in with 4 lads and a bottle on the beach one night alright though, feicers ...