The Point Hostel Mancora Beach

... we arrived in Mancora a small little beach
town where loads of tuk tuks patrol the streets waiting to pick up
tourists and take them 2 mins down the road!!!


well the beach was so welcoming after
all that time at altitude and the cold and the people being ill then
the 39 hour bus ride.



The place looked like a Greek or med
resort, the pool looked really inviting. The rooms were ...

... sim. Por 3 dias tirei mais ou menos 800 fotos. Ficaram muito legal. No dia que eu ia embora estava transfirindo as fotos do disco esterno para um DVD. Nao e que uma menina brincando do lado me derruba o disco rigido a a porra para de trabalhar. Acabei perdendo todas as fotos que tinha arquivado como tambem muitas fotos da viagem. Tomara que em Sao Paulo eu possa recuperar esses arquivos. Ah! antes que eu esqueca: QUE PRAIA!!!!!

Saturday 17th October
Had a 9am bus to Mancora. All the girl were heading south, so we parted ways.
People had been telling me that if I went to Mancora to stay in the Loki hostel. Anyway, I rocked up there and got told that it was 25 soles a night (steep by standards here, but like $9 Australian). Nearly told the bird at the desk to get stuffed, but she offered to walk me around.
The place was more like a hotel with a pool, bar, etc, etc. So I ...

26th September 2009
la Posada, Mancora, Peru
Hot and windy
yesterday Tumbes - Mancora (105 kms) with a headwind!

As we left Tumbes we were back to rice paddies either side of the road, that eventually gave way to scrubland, and finally desert. We rode by the sea for a while, passing small resorts that this time of year are completely deserted. By the time we needed to eat we discovered that 'blobs' on the map in Peru don't mean the same as 'blobs' on the map ...

So after recovering from the Pisco sours and the later than usual evening, we set off on a tour of local mud baths, beautiful beaches, and the coastal mangroves. So tours in South America are very different than those in Canada. First an english speaking guide does not always mean that they speak english. Second if you think that you book a tour with 3 people and join a larger group later you are mistaken. We showed up to the store where we bought our ...

... to eat and drink so it was a well worth visit-wouldnt get in the water though as i saw alot of dead birds washed up and also saw a tottoise washed up one morning followed by eith a dolphin/shark the next morning-it was horrible-the whole insides had been eaten away!!Not sure what was in the water but didnt want to find out so stayed on dry land!!
On Tuesday night we met up with Conor and Eilis who are staying here for over a week before heading to live in Canada for a year ...

... do getting up on the board, but he struggles more with catching waves. He manages to stand up on his board only to have the wave roll under him as he goes over it like a fishing bobber in the water.
Well, Andy figures out and surfs around us on his first day while Eric and I just paddle to nowhere and drink saltwater. Andy surfed for the afternoon while Eric and I sunburned trying. We spent the rest of our time in Mancora walking around the beach town ...

... off and found the nearest hostel to the bus terminal as I was struggling. Got in and from there it just got worse. Shane went to buy tablets for vomiting and squirts, dry biscuits, Sprite, water, the list went on. Couldn't keep anything down though, was getting ridiculous. Same the next day, and that night I went to vomit again in the bathroom but fainted and fell into the shower. When I came to, Shane was looking down at me and I realised where I was. I got up ...

... nazca. It was brutal. That day we all decided to leave and try a place called Loki. The outside architecture is greek and the inside design is completely unfinished. The place give you a wrist band which signifies "im a gringo in mancora and i want to get totally f-ed up" I felt like i was in cancun. Every night is party night. You will no doubt be up until 2 am when they last call the bar. On the way up to mancora ...