Days 27 - 30: Deepest Darkest Peru

From Cuenca, we had a lot of land to cover to get down into Peru. We had a big day of bus travel to cross the border. At the border, it was as simple as getting off the bus, lining up to leave Ecuador, crossing the room and lining up to enter Peru, a bit of a bizarre experience! Then we all jumped back on the bus, passports stamped, to get to our Peruvian destination, Mancora.

Mancora is a seaside town (well, one main street) on the north coast. We were driven around in motortaxis, a motorbike with a carriage attachment, and were very pleased to find ourselves settled into our beach-front hotel, beer in hand, watching the surfers and the sunset. The next day was pretty lazy, we are definitely feeling more on holiday and slowing down a bit lately, and we spent most of the day lying in the sun on the beach.

Mancora also has a pretty raging nightlife, though there are no pubs, only nightclubs all in a row competing for the loudest music and also for our custom. Needless to say it was not the relaxed Kingsland Neighbourhood environment we know and love, and we only stayed for one drink, ears ringing!!

The next day we decided to have a surfing lesson, where we all stood up and surfed, with the help of the instructors!! We were both pretty stoked with our surfing!! Unfortunately this was our last day in Mancora, before we caught the night bus to Huanchaco, another seaside town about 600 km from Mancora.

The night bus was an experience! We were on the top floor of a massive double decker bus, with seats that almost fully reclined. Also on board was a man who snored very loudly throughout the entire night. He needs to watch out if he happens to be travelling to Lima tomorrow!!

Huanchaco has been a lot quieter than Mancora, so we will be looking forward to jumping back on the night bus tomorrow.

Can't believe we are already up to Day 30, the time is flying!! Missing everybody and the lack of harassment from hawkers back home, but still a lot more to see yet!!

Xoxoxo