Hotel Las Olas
Travel Blogs from Mancora
The waves, they're like a machine!
Sarah- The waves here are so large and so consistent some surfers call the waves here a machine. The beach is nice, right out side our rear porch of our hotel, and clean but about 100 feet away you can start to see garbage in the sand due to the restaurants and bars close by. It's super quiet here which is a nice change and we just lay out on the …
Sun, Sea, Sand and Strikes
Though the drive from Cuenca to the Ecuadorian/Peruvian border was long, the transfer from one country into the other was relatively simple. Disembarking from our comfortable bus with reclining seats in Tumbes, we boarded a `collectivo` (a minibus/VW van with more people than would legally be allowed in Britain) to take us about an hour and a half …
Christmas!
On our first morning in Mancora, we were disappointed to hear that our campground had no water, which meant no washing facilities and also no flushing toilets. It was a good enough incentive for us to look for somewhere else to stay for the rest of our stay. We grabbed a simple breakfast of eggs, bread, juice and a coffee at the same restaurant …
Crossing the boarder and another lovely surf town
Crossing the boarder from Ecuador into Peu wasnt too bad at all. The main thing that was horribel was that it was so hot and humid and we were carying all our bags so it wasnt nice. There was one girl who was there queing with us to get our passports stamped who was in teras because she had just been mugged crossing the bridge becuase she was a …