Máncora Beach

August 6-8, 2015

It was time to head up the coast towards Ecuador. We decided to bite the bullet, have a long bus ride and book it to a beach almost at the border to relax for a couple days.

We had a 10 hour ride into Trujillo, halfway there. We arrived in the morning and the bus to Mancora left at night so we stashed our packs at the bus office and spent the day walking around the Centro Historico.

It was a cute area with colonial architecture.

After dinner we hopped our second 10 hour bus to the beach in Máncora.

Some of the cool beach grafitti

Again arrived early, a nice mototaxi took us to a couple different hostels to check availability and pricing. We settled on one with hammocks in the courtyard, hot water, and a swimming pool.

Quick nap and out to the beach.

The next 3 days consisted of swimming in the ocean, laying in the sun on said beach ( getting sand blasted by the wind but it was still a beach) walking around town to window shop, eat shellfish dishes, fresh juice, and ice cream. It was wonderful.

Beach selfie!

Lots of wave diving

This is my real beach face

We opted to just enjoy the beach, there were abundant horseback riding, snorkeling, hot spring, boat tour, surfing, etc opportunities also. I did take advantage of the slackline that was set up over our hostel pool.

Being over water falling is way less painful and I was able to try getting back on the line from the middle.

It was tough.  I did it though!

Then I thought maybe getting on from Sharkie would be easier.

Not so much.

It was a super fun pool time

We watched the sunset both nights.

 And had some silhouette fun too.

Surprise horse in the background

Feeling much refreshed and slightly sunburnt, we left at 11:30pm on a bus to Cuenca, Ecuador. Border crossings at 2am are quiet. Two passport stamps later we're in another country ready for the next adventures and a nap.