Mancora Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

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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 comple...

We get the bikes down the steps and into the street to load up, it raised a lot of interest with 3 or 4 locals who gathered to watch and question!

Here we go again another big city to get out of with not real maps and precious little in the way of road signs. We head back the way we came in and find the Pan Am highway sign and then it dis...

Slept really well last night.. super tired from surfing in Pimentel and swimming in Mancora and the sun and what not.. I know... it´s tough.. but it IS exhausting... :p I bought my ticket to Loja yesterday (70 Soles to Loja).. the bus leaves at 5.30pm and should arrive in Loja, Ecuador, tomorrow morning around 6am, when I´ll call my CS host, Die...

We decided to make our last stop in Peru a beach stop. You can find Mancora beach on the far north coast of Peru, it is not only meant to be very picturesque, but also a great surfing beach. Having pitched up at 5am, we found a cheap-ish hostel with a private room and balcony over-looking the beach, and about 10ft away from the sea. What a posit...

The biggest accomplishment of the day is that we actually managed to accomplish less than yesterday. What a feat. After waking up and really craving a Denny´s Super Slam Breakfast, Susan´s heart almost stopped when a nice British girl told her about "Green Eggs and Ham," a rooftop breakfast place that overlooked the ocean. But, let´s not worry o...

The bus ride was long and hellish, but interrupted by a visit to a museum in a small town called Chiclayo which is all about the Lord of Sipan. The tomb of Lord Sipan was discovered in 1987 and they believe he was a ruler of the area about 1600 years ago. Grave robbers and the spaniards never found the graves so everything was pretty much in tac...

Hello my peoples, marc is back on the map again after what I would describe as the worst sickness in my life. Made worse by the fact that I didnt have my mother here nurse me back to health and heed my every beck and call. It is these times that one truly misses home. Still, what does not kill one can only make one stronger. Well to be honest it...

I have fallen in love with this area, and only wish I had more time. To date, Ecuador (and the start of Peru) have all of the ingredients of my preferred travel destinations. As I begin the tail end of my journey RTW, thoughts are going through my mind as to where my future may take me... even though it´s only early days, living and working here...

I was relieved to arrive here in Mancora after Tumbes. I had to go to three hotels to finally find one that wasn't trying to rip me off, but it was a nice place and they have good, cheap food (and a very nice, varied salad of the day). There are a ton of artisans here and I made a friend right away. His name is Owen, which means he should be a f...