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Mancora Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mancora, Peru
Lobitos - Nothing there but surf..
So we finally pulled ourselves out of Huanchaco, and headed for Lobitos, not knowing much else about the place except that it has good surf. So by hook or by crook, we got talking to a dude who knew a dude, who knew of a place to stay, because there are ...
sunburned in Peru
... .. but how can they tell.... Well, main thing is we still have all our belongings.. We went straight to Mancora, a beach pueblo in the north of Peru, which is very nice and chilled and probably the only place where it will be summery for me. There are ...
Mancora - Beach time
... and it is Miguel from my Inca Jungle trip. Turns out he arrived here this morning too! We had talked about meeting up in Mancora but I wasn´t so sure if it would happen so its a pleasant surprise to see him. We jump out onto the beach which ...
Surf and sun
... an hour southwest to Tumbes, where we were able to catch a bus to Mancora. Mancora, a popular beach town on the northern coast of Peru, has been pretty fantastic, if a little more expensive than I had anticipated. Julieann and I ...
Mancora Mayhem!
... whilst still drinking beers on the beach surprised us with fresh lobster, crab and other delights. The Point Hostel Mancora is talked about throughout Peru as it is famous for it's full moon parties and whilst we were there they were lucky enough to ...
Mancora
... rival King Tuts in Egypt! If you are ever in Chiclayo, I would recommend a visit. It was after 8pm when we finally arrived in Mancora, and we were very happy to be there! It is a beautiful, tiny sea side town ... and I believe some ...
Mancora mi Amora...
... make the sweet taste sweeter...or something positive like that... Two hours later we landed in the dusty surf town of Mancora, Peru. We walked around checking out different hostels, before settling on a good deal (read: disgusting ...
BEACH!! Otra vez...
... beach. Ooh and obviously we took lots of pictures of the sunset. Claro!! We stayed the night in Mancora and after some more beaching the next day, sadly started our LONG LONG journey south to Cuzco via Lima. We ...
Reflections on Equador
... what I did. However it´s not going to be a particularly long blog as I´m afraid the beach beckons here in surfers heaven in Peru! So 4 and a half weeks in Ecuador, lots of rice, many bowls of soup and an unnatual mixture of sunshine and rain. This is ...
Sun, surf and loud hostels!
... burger of my life from a street cart called Beach Burger here (Kiddy you would go crazy for these burgers!). Mancora marks the end of our time in Peru, tomorrow we are off to Ecuador. We have had an amazing time in Peru it's certainly been our favorite ...
Tales of the Unexpected
... the Ridiculous Sleep here is turning into a precious commodity. This has also been happening over the three day 98th Anniversary of Mancora too. A heady cocktail of beer and more salsa and regatron mixes. HELP. It started with Miss Mancora. Oh yes!!! ...
Last day at School
... so life comes to and end here. Back to Lima to meet my fiancé and Nora and I will spend a month together in Peru. Can't wait!!!!!!!! As for Mancora, what a place. Full of beauty and a life that's very hard. I've grown up in my time her. I've learnt ...
Mancora...not what i expected
The word around Monatñita was Mancora was the Monatñita 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 I´m off to Ecuador...
... 30pm and should arrive in Loja, Ecuador, tomorrow morning around 6am, when I´ll call my CS host, Diego and go to his house. Mancora does really have a beautiful beach with great, fun, waves. It was nice for the couple of days I was here, but ...
The long journey to Mancora
So here starts the story of our stay in Mancora, a beach resort in the far north of Peru, but before that, here is the eventful story of howwe got there. As usual in Peru, we were travelling by Cruz del Sur bus, we had booked in Arequipa, a bus from ...
Trabajando duro y jugando más duro en Máncora
After my previous positive Loki hostel experiences in La Paz and Cusco, I decided it was time for another, but this time I would be entering further into the Loki vortex than ever before – I was going to start working at their amazing site in the ...
Mancora Beach
Got to Mancora Beach in the wee hours after swapping my ticket to Piura and riding straight through via the help of a very useful letter written by my hostel owner in Trujillo who had advised Piura was nothing special. Spent entire day on beach ...
The things you learn to appreciate.......
... of their equivalent name) driver scooted across the road and miraciously procured a map. Unfourtunatly - South America being rather large and Mancora rather tiny - my lonely planet had failed to provide me with anything of the sort. He pointed out a few ...
Ian´s take on doing nothing all day.
... ;beers, 2 plates of fried yucca, and a mix drink ends up being $17 (51 soles). Awesome!! Thank you Peru. Tomorrow I´m trying the ceviche. I just have to. If I don´t come home, at least everyone will know ...
To the beach!!!
... were told that it was just a bunch of young kids partying their butts off and getting drunk, but we were pleasantly surprised to find Mancora to be just another laid back beach town. We had originally planned to take a trip to Cabo Blanco, but it was a ...
Drink til you drop
... s lokalcima s Couchsurfinga, likovi totalno cudni. Sjetili me zasto sam se odrekla CS. Hvala, ali ne hvala. U hostelima je super. ... Mancora je malo mjesto blizu granice s Ekvadorom. Malo je, ali skroz opasno. U samo sat vremena sto sam bila ovdje cula ...
Surf, Sun and ?
... how on earth I would spend my final two weeks here in South America. First thing I needed to do I guess, sleep. Mancora is to Peru as Hawiee is to the US. The Peruvian people flock here in their droves during the summer and cannot say one bad ...
Back to the Beach
... . I had at least 10 bites on my feet, not glad to be back in their territory. Unfortunately our last couple of days in Mancora were marred by both of us getting rather sick. Eilidh was first to be struck down by a common illness among travellers that I'm ...
Komin til Máncora, strond i Perú :)
Erum komin heilu á holdnu til Perú thrátt fyrir langt og leidinlegt ferdalag og leidinlegustu landamaeri sem vid hofum farid yfir hingad til. En segjum betur frá thví ...
a morning in Máncora
... fantastically helpful in helping us arrange our onwards travel) we caught a bus up the Pan American Highway (which is also Mancora´s High Street!) to Tumbes, on the Peru-Ecuador border, where we bid farewell to Peru and entered ...
Beside the sea
... when one of the ends snapped off he made us pay 30soles ($10) which we were happy with, After the surfing we went back to mancora for some hamburgers, which made Nowley ill so all in all our second day in Mancora wasn't a good one! The next day we ...
A beach break at Mancora
FURTHER up the coast of Peru, near the Ecuador border, is the small beach resort of Mancora. We decided to reward ourselves for traveling from coast to coast by taking a dip in the Pacific and spending a few days relaxing on the beach. Our beach ...
They´ve let us in to Peru!
... obviously no quota system happening here! Then into taxi´s and onto the bus depot for the next part of the journey to Mancora via Peru Customs and Immigration. At the immigration section a couple of our group got ripped off by guys saying that they had ...
Man-cor! It's Scott and Lee!
After another long and windy bus journey, David and I finally arrived in Mancora to a welcome of people with tuk-tuks or hostels they were trying to push us into. It was so early in the morning that neither of us could really be bothered even politely ...
Beach, sun and surf (and 24 Emergency)
... in a Internet cafe in Loja/Ecuador and have finally managed to fill the now over two-weeks gap in our blog. The start in Mancora - a village famous for its surf and its mellow atmosphere, was a bit tough. Finally, we managed to find a hostel which was ...