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Mancora Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mancora, Peru
Sunset in Mancora
This is a top pick! ... Eggs again, with some coffee. Walk back along the beach and before I get to the resort, take a few minutes to look back over Mancora and it's coast. Shower, pack, pay bill, Moto, bus waiting room. Met a couple from the UK in the bus waiting room. They ...
More sun, sand and sea....and an update on plans
This is a top pick! ... Namibia, and any others that we have time to fit in would be fab. Gosh, what an adventure we are having! And still so much to look forward to!!!! Well, we will leave you with yet a few more photos of the beautiful wildlife and beaches of Peru, so enjoy. ...
At last....the beach!
This is a top pick! ... day just got 10 times better :) So, here we are, in Punta Sal, which is situated on the northern coast of Peru, between Mancora and Tumbes. A perfect location, because it means that the bus journey across the border into Ecuador will only be a teeny tiny ...
PERU! Beach time
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Mancora, Huanchaco, Huaraz
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Connecting my heart with the flow of the ocean
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Still Healing
This is a top pick! ... for 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 ...
Beaching it at Mancora
This is a top pick! ... spoken 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 ...
Mancorá A.K.A Little India
This is a top pick! We´d paid extra money to get a big fancy bus for our overnight trip, rather than a regular bus with a regular seat. I´m turning into a bourgeois traveller, and I love it! The bus was incredible, with big fancy leather seats and, most bizarely, a bar ...
Surfers paradise in Peru!
This is a top pick! ... green 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 ...
Merry Mancora Christmas
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The Beach
This is a top pick! ... 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 a ...
Warm water
This is a top pick! ... , 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!!!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Mancora - Hippee Surfer Paradise
This is a top pick! ... never change money on the streets anyway, and I succesfully scared off a few of them. I can be scary when I try!! So, to Mancora, which we finally made it to by 3pm yesterday afternoon (after out 5am start in Cuenca). The bus ride was pretty good, ...
Cusco - Mancora - buses and a birthday boy
This is a top pick! ... by the beach. Sorry for that HUGE bus rant but after all these months and lengthy journeys they now dominate our travels lol. Mancora...at last some sunshine....and some unwanted guests So Mancora is a small little beach town and the main place to ...
Peru..... hot hot hot!!
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Sun, Sea and almost Surfing in Mancora
This is a top pick! We arrive in Mancora, a small beach resort in the north of Peru, after a long bus journey and are glad to see the hostel waiting to pick us up to take us to the hostel. We then somehow manage to cram 4 people, 4 backpacks and numerous bags into an old, ...
Mancora, Peru
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 ...
Mancora- Beach Bum
I feel really bad about this but we skipped Lima. Bussed straight up the coast to Mancora, a little beach town near the Ecuadorian border. We spent a few days here just hanging around on the beach, eating seafood and browsing the shops. We met our friends ...
Marvellous Mancora!
... we should do something today though so head out to the main street to look at the local shops & stores. Adam gets himself a Mancora wifebeater & a sarong - quite the image - Sally gets a headband! Think I missed out there! We then head to the ...
Máncora
... Lima. 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 ...
Mancora- First Surfing Spot in Peru!
... dinner, seafood of course, for around $10. It was really nice to have something other than rice and beans! After three nights in Mancora we decided to start heading down the coast. We are shooting to be in Lima by the 18th so we have quite ...
Kicking back and relaxing with sun, sea and sand
... 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 ...
Lots of Surf and Ceviche
... fact I had Ceviche for all 6 total meals (lunch and dinners) plus two extra for snacks. A massive plate was only $3. The beach, the waves, the little town and the sunsets were unreal. We took an overnight bus to Guayaquil, Ecuador on the last day in Peru. ...
A shady start in Peru, then a few days in the sun
... I couldn't secure a bus that would take me over the border since the route was busy with people eager to continue celebrating Peru's recent national holiday, but I figured what the heck, I speak Spanish, I should be able to figure this out! ...
Loca Loki
... I met Noga and Asaf). The last day we went to the beach near the Eppo Bus Los Organos stop (about 20 minutes from Mancora). The water is amazingly blue with fine sand and hardly any wind compared to the beach at Mancora; however, we found out ...
The Journey North
... 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 ...