Máncora

Time for vacation! After hardcore archeology and serious high mountain trekking, the last two days of Peru have been beach, pool and the Pacific ocean in the marvelous town of Mancora, close to the border of Ecuador. vacation needed while traveling??? may sound strange for everybody who have not done a big backpacking yet (to some even unfair). But traveling is not holiday, and sometimes one simply needs some time to rest and simply reflect on the hundreds of things one has seen and the people one has met on the trip...well, we ourselves wouldn't have thought so before the trip...but we actually realize, we are not getting any younger :-( So, here we are, getting strengths before flying out to the pacific on to the Galapagos islands, before returning to the Andes to complete it with the northern parts in a Ecuador and Colombia!Read more