Hello Mancora! Yes your weather is very sunny and not too hot, but your beach still leaves much to be desired... For some reason people kept finding dead animals on the beach; birds, fish, a sealion. I never saw any of these alleged animals, but I wouldn't doubt their existance!

Don't get me wrong, I had a great time in Mancora, but more due to the hostel and the people, as the sea didn't look like somewhere I wanted to swim really. Our first night we witnessed a bar fight at one of the bars on the beach, and as we were currently buying drinks at the bar which was right at the back, and the people beating each other up and throwing bottles were in the middle, we were a bittrapped which was slightly scary, especially as the Peruvians all started runnign out of the bar! But we got our fine, and as the whole bar emptied the fight was reiniciated outside on the beach! We went to another bar...!

I didn't actually bother to try and surf as the number of waves were almost zero, and only the existant ones about a metre high! But it was humorous to watch about 20 surfers just floating around on a completely flat sea doing nothing! The weather was beautiful though, after a while of no sun again I was very happy to be able to sunbathe again!

Me and Chris had a bit of an adventure one night when we got lost going from the beach bars to the hostel, quite how that happened I don't really know as anyone who's been to Mancaro will know that its ridiculously easy, as there's just one path going from the beach to the main road! Anyway we were obviously pretty drunk, and walked the total wrong way down the beach, until we realised we had no idea where we were and needed to get to the main road. Problem: there was a hotel in between us and the road, solution? climb over the hotel fence, run sneaky-spy style through the garden to the other side, climb over another fence, be confused about why we're in an a deserted children's playground, be scared by the giant plastic clown, find ourselves in another totally random place, eventually make it back to the hostel, go to sleep, wake up with the whole adventure totally forgotten but with scratched and bruised legs and vague memories of climbing...

So basically a lot of partying was done, and a lot of beer pong played, after I discovered that although I can't throw or catch AT ALL, im strangely really good at beer pong, maybe because its not a really sport and it involves alcohol? I can't take all the credit though as me and my partner Alex made a pretty awesome team and the reputation as the best. Many useful skills to bring back to England with me!

Jeffrey and said goodbye to our travel buddies Chris and Aimee as they decided to stay on and work there, and we set of with two new ones, Alex and Jay, to leave Peru, after almost 3 months there it was my longest stay in one country! and enter another new country... Ecuador!