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- Nuevo Sol (PEN)
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Mancora Slideshow
Mancora
Travel Blogs from Mancora, Peru
Peru overview
... villages in the mountains and the amazon to cities like Lima. These families are looking for a better life, the problem is; Peru's employment sector cannot sustain the over supply in workers. The population growing ever so rapidly, it only continues to ...
The beach!
... a fabulous Peruvian version of the deep fried seafood platter (my fav from Mrytle Beach!), then spent the afternoon in the sun. Mancora is gringo heaven. A place to relax, have great seafood, and chill out! So far the Peruvian scenery is very ...
Surf town Mancora
... of Quito, Ecuador on the 12th of April. We took a nice 17 our bus ride from Lima to get to our final Peruvian destination. Mancora, its an awesome little surf town, hostel is right on the beach lovely place. This is our tanning home. Arrived on the bus, ...
Mancora
Surf`s up
... gav meg gratis brettleie i 4dager mot at vi tok noen ĝl i baren hans og at jeg nevnte konsernet hans i bloggen min. SĊ : Mancora Surfclub og Surfers Bar anbefales!!! Utenom surfing gċr dagene i Mancora med pċ ċ spise god Sushi, drikke Lokis berĝmte ...
The art of relaxation
28th September 2009 la Posada, Mancora, Peru It's cool but just right The days here have been sunny and hot, just what the doctor ordered. not that we've been ill or anything, in fact we feel fighting fit at the moment. We were going to head ...
boarder crossing
... day (as i expect they will continue to be in a continent so large) we left our hostel in Montañita at 5:30AM and did not check into our hostle in Mancora until 8:30PM. pictures: ...
Huanchaco & Mancora
... thankful we still do not have these barbaric beliefs... well come to think of it maybe it was not such a bad idea eh? Manorca or Mancora was right on the beach, I mean right on it, there was more sand in our bed than on the beach. Mac took the ...
Relaxing at the beach
... mangy dogs about! Getting into Peru was easy, which was quite surprising, and after several hours driving we arrived at Mancora, a smallish beach town. Our campsite was pretty good with some very comfy hammocks and we had a great BBQ for ...
Mancora
Chill-out time in this beach resort. A nice stop-over on our way to the Ecuadorian Galapagos ...
Shouldn't have left so quick
... . Really quite annoying. Anyway we made it. We had a little lunch in Piura and got onto the bus to our final destination Mancora. We arrived with little fanfare into the beach side town of Mancora, drab and overcast the town didn’t give a very good ...
Worst border crossing in the world
... the CIFA bus station. We boarded a full bus and started making our way to Tumbes, Peru. Our original plan was to cruise direct to Mancora. This way would've made our border crossing easier. However, it turned out ...
Straight through the desert
... travel even more miles across the Peruvian desert from Trujillo all the way north and finally to arrive into the coastal town of Mancora. The drive out of Trujillo was just as depressing as most other towns in Peru. The road across the desert was simply ...
Mancora
... though it has had its ups and downs, im just going to write about the ups because theyve been pretty cool. Yesterday I arrived in Mancora, and its beautiful! very very touristy, of course, but worth it. This morning i got up early, party because the ...
Back on the road!!
... after by a police seach (I'm sure that wasn't on the menu) before I arrived at my destination in Mancora, the beach town in the North of Peru, loved by hippies and surfers alike!! Arriving without a hotell or hostel booked is not a ...
Right off the beach
... to be in a proper bus where the seat reclines more than 2 degrees and they even had breakfast and dinner included. Arriving in Mancora I went to the Loki hostel which was a bit of a reputation. Theres even a quote from the lonely planet that says ¨loki ...
Mancora
... way harder than it looks, but I think it would be so cool to learn anyhow. That was the extent of our stay in Mancora - brief, but quite relaxing - because we left that night on another overnight bus to our next destination. Asaf Damn I wish that I ...
Sun, sand and cerveza
... . After we got settled, we set out in search of Green Eggs and Ham. They say it´s the best breakfast place in all of Mancora - and they are not wrong! I´m sort of sad such a good breakfast is included with the new place since it means it´ll be ...
Ripping up the surf in Mancora
What can I say about Mancora - its the gem of Peru in my opinion - I absolutly loved it . Its a real surfing town but its getting a wee bit touristy as the Loki is moving to town. Mancora has a real local feel to it - all the local surfers are so ...
Mancora06
... I have to say, it's the way it is and just go with the flow. It's too much to be any other way. So welcome to Mancora. A beach resort on the Pan-American Highway. And it is literally a street with a big huge beautiful beach that goes on for more miles ...
Quiet beach town of Mancora
... and Switzerland for much of his life before returning home to Peru. There are a lot of people with interesting stories I´ve encountered on this trip. Mancora is fairly quiet and pleasant despite the large tourist presence along the beach ...
Beach time
... long and packed with restaurants on the sand, the day we arrived was the Peruvian independence weekend so the beach was packed with people. Mancora was a really good place to get in some sun and beach time after not seeing the sea for a while and we could ...
nuestra casa
ok, we have found our future house (nuestra casa), it is on Las Pocitas (the rockpools), the beach 3 kms south of Mancora, just took a tuk-tuk went back to the beach to take photos of it, and the guy (retired designer) was incredibly welcoming and ...
Five nights x 25 mosquito bites per night = ?
We had yet to spend more than a few nights in each town we visited up to this point, so we decided to stay put in Mancora for a while, enjoying the sun and the sand and the surf. Karlton got to try surfing (again), this time with a real instructor. ...
Time with Timbo
... of a slow and full wave while we were there, so we moved on. We headed right up to the North of Peru to a town called Mancora. Mancora is a nice little resort town with good restaurants and nightlife but sadly not much surf. Tim had heard about a ...
Southbound
One night stop on the way south to Huaraz. Avoiding three nights in a row on a bus. Bottoms ...