Mancora Bay Hotel

... br><br>We had some dinner and then headed to the little office to get our night bus, a bit early, as we didnt have anything to do until 11pm, but just as we got there, a massive parade starting coming down the street... we chatted to some locals about the differences between Peru and England... and then got our bus at 11.30pm... ready for our journey to Ecuador...! Fingers crossed the "most difficult border crossing in South America" goes okay in the middle of the night!<br>

... back. <br><br>Funniest moment: One Polish guy in the volunteer group helped himself to some potato one night at dinner before it was ready and the queue of 55-odd volunteers were in uproar! To which he replied in a high-pitched Polish accent, "who are you to judge me!?". Classic! (Although you probably had to be there...)<br><br>New food tried: Ceviche - raw fish cured with lemon and lime. Chicha - a juice made of purple corn, also comes in a fermented ...

... wave after wave, and after swallowing more salt water than can possibly be healthy, I finally managed to stand up for the last two waves. It was pretty sweet I must say. Although I don´t think I´ll take lessons (which cost us each 40 soles..) again, I do think I´ll probably rent a board again and give it another shot tomorrow. <br> I´ll probably be lazing on the beach and attempting to surf more until Monday ...

... haste. After hooking up the ipod and cracking a few cold ones we sat out on the patio and discussed plans for the day and for the rest of the week. All that came of it was surfing and heading to the beach. So not wanting to have wasted good beer conversation we headed out to walk the beach and watch the kite boarders and surfers. The beach was beautiful and all the restaurants set up temporary patios on the sand, hard to tell where one starts and one ends but that ...

... so sweet. They had great advice for our travels and were both really patient with our spanish. I feel good about buying some of their hand made jewelery. I love my bracelette and the gifts from them were so nice. Hopefully we meet back up since we are headed to their home town (Buenos Aires).<br><br>Sophie: That would be awesome. Their little boy was so adorable, especially today at lunch when he put your hat on. I feel like we got introduced to ...

... ne izgleda kao hostel nego kao neki resort &#8211; imamo bazen, bar, nalazimo se nekih 10 metara od oceana, tj. plaza nam je odmah tu te sama zgrada izgleda kao hotel. Hostel je super. Za 6e noc stvarno puno dobijes. Pun je Izraelaca i Iraca. Veceras idemo van, jedva cekam jer je izlazak u Trujillo bio malo zesca katastrofa. Isli van s lokalcima s Couchsurfinga, likovi totalno cudni. Sjetili me zasto sam se odrekla CS. Hvala, ali ne ...

... herself up a nasty case of Salmonella poisoning. <br><br>While Milli spent the night in the hospital I walked around the city which was surprisingly cool, got myself a pizza, went back to the hotel and watched Hitch (after which I too felt like spewing).<br><br>The next morning Milli was discharged having cured the Salmonella, but  when she passed out she had hit her neck and head pretty hard so we had to go to Lima to get it looked at. Milli could barely stand and ...

... jsme si zvykli veci se tady vzdy nakonec nejak vyresi a tak i my jsme nakonec zaplatili vse a stihli autobus. Nasledovaly hranice. Nejdrive Ecuadorska strana a o 20 km pozdeji Peru. Vse probehlo hladce. Asi po pulhodine jiz v Peru jsme absolvali celni kontrolu kdy nas vsechny vyhnali z autobusu a nasledne vybrali nahodne tri batohy. Jeden z nich patril Gabce ale neprevazeli jsme nic zakazaneho a tak jsme byli na ceste k Pacifickemu oceanu. Po asi 20 minutach jsme opravdu jeli ...

... their nationwide strike, and would be doing so for the next 72 hours. ****. So we waited, and waited, and waited, morning turned into afternoon, and we were still waiting by the roadside. It was almost carnival atmosphere around the buses, everybody was sitting around outside chatting, sharing the limited amount of available information, " Oh, Í have just heard we will be going in five minutes "etc etc. We took a walk down to the actual strike ...

... and strange dreams. I figured it was my subconscious processing all the new experiences I had been experiencing, especially compared to the seemingly routine life I had before. <br><br>Later I spent a couple of hours on the beach trying to sun tan and just chill. The day started off quite warm, but gradually as I lay on the beach, it started getting colder. It was good to be on the beach while I watched surfers surfing the waves. The women's ...