mancora.

after leaving our wonderful little second home in chiclayo, we hopped a bus to mancora. arriving at 3 o'clock in the morning and walking 'the' street (there is only one), we found the loki hostel that was recommended to us and got beds for the night. waking to glorious sunshine and free coffee, we were ready to hit the water..

loki is right on the oceanfront, and within 50 steps you're in prime beach zone.. huge waves.. smooth sand.. birds overhead.. perfection. spent the entire day playing in the crashing waves and lounging around before going out for dinner and calling it a night. our second day, we were looking for something chill to do, so we thought of checking out these mud baths just outside of town.. except they only do evening tours. so we decided to walk down the beach where we found a secluded area to hang out just the three of us. during low tide, there were these rocks which created natural shallow pools.. lots of fun. watched birds dive bomb for fish from our little patch of shade.. the day was too short. that night we splurged and went out for a wonderful three course gourmet meal. went back to the hostel for a drink and some good conversation and called it a night.

our last day in mancora we woke once again to perfect weather and went down to the beach for a few hours. showered up and got some eats before gearing up for our last official 18 hour bus.. which unfortunately ended up being almost 3 hours late.. but regardless, here we are in lima. meeting once again with colleen and ricardo, we are spending the night with ricardo's brother and heading to the airport at 4:30 in the morning to catch our flight to iquitos for 3 days in the amazon.