Mancora!

Huanchaco is pretty small and there is rarely any sunshine this time of year. We were toying with the idea of heading north for the weekend to Mancora, but the idea had kind of fizzled out. Last minute on Friday we decided to just go. Laura and Andrew booked it to Trujillo to get the tickets for the overnight bus. Mancora is about 9 hours from Trujillo near the boarder of Ecuador and is all sunshine and warm ocean waters. It's funny because back home 9 hours on a bus seems super far, but here it seems like a very short ride. 

We arrived at 6am to a hoard of taxis very aggressively trying to get us to pick them to take us to the hostel. The hostel was at the end of the beach away from the town which was very nice. The beach was basically empty other than us and the occasional local fisherman. We spent most of the day sun burning on the beach. We had put some sunscreen on, but being so close to the equator for so many hours, we all got burnt. It was nice regardless. 

At night we went into town where it seemed like all the locals go. There's a strip on the beach of about 6 place that are all open and blaring horrible music. If you are standing near the front or outside you just hear 3 songs all mixed together and you just hear bad noise. We didn't stay very long. 

The hostel was nice and the food was amazing. They had more of a variety of international-ish dishes, which was a nice change. I couldn't finish my chicken fried rice one meal and they didn't have take away containers, so into a plastic bag it went. Typical Peru. It was a fun trip, but I don't think I could laze about on a beach for more than 2 days.