Máncora!!!
Arriving to Piura
Well just got back from a few days in Máncora yesterday. Had a really good time, 5 of us ended up going Verónica, Gissel, Josh & Nadia and me.
Verónica and I took a flight to Lima from Cusco on the 16th in the morning, did some shopping and then went to the airport to meet Josh & Nadia. Their flight had some really rough turbulence (article: Iberia flight from Spain arrives to Peru with 23 injured passengers) so they were a bit shaken up (hahaha I’m so good) when they arrived. We went to Vero’s uncle and aunty’s house, where we stayed the night. They took us out for dinner to a really nice chinese restaurant close to their house. Our flight was at 4am the following morning so we got about 4 hours sleep before we were all heading to the airport again. The flight was to Piura in the north of Perú and we then caught a minivan to Máncora which was about a couple of hours.
We arrived and the weather was really warm, we booked into a hotel called Punta del Mar which Jesse had recommended.
Me ripping it up, ha
We relaxed a lot for the 5 days we were there, the surf was big enough after a new swell hit so Josh and I managed to hire some boards and go out for one surf at the point. The rest of the time we spent walking along the beach, swimming in the pool and lying in the sun. Oh and eating quite a bit of fresh seafood, mainly ceviche mmmmmmmm.
I recommend going there, there’s so many hotels to chose from and judging from the amount of development going on it will be a really popular holiday spot for people visiting Perú. Next time Jesse’s resort Loki del Mar will be finished so that’s where I’ll be staying.
We made our way back to Piura for our flight to Lima, Josh and Nadia were flying out for Mexico City that afternoon. It was a bit sad saying goodbye, being with them at the beach and surfing had made me quite homesick but I’m just glad I’ll be able to enjoy the NZ summer this year.
