Hola chicos y chicas. ¿Cómo estan? Muy frio, ¿no? Okay that´s enough of that. So we are in Huanchaco, getting ready to leave for our overnight bus to Lima (yipee). Huanchaco and Trujillo have been awesome. The beach in Huanchaco is beautiful, much more so than in Mancora. However it is much more quiet here at night...Mancora seems to have gotten the reputation as the party town. Carnaval officially started two nights ago, and the only ...

Hello to everyone in the cold of Canada. We are in Chiclayo, on the northern coast of Peru, a 15 minute drive from the ocean, and in the middle of the Sechara Desert. It is hot. We are constantly covered with a combination of sweat and sunscreen. But, for the first time in our trip, we have been able to enjoy a blue ski. It is wonderful. We left Mancora and the bugs behind three days ago. While we loved swimming in the ocean, body surfing on the waves, and tann...

Hello everyone, it is 1:45pm on a hot and rainy afternoon in Mancora, Peru. We arrived here two days ago after an overnight bus and 3am border crossing from Ecuador. Before we discuss Mancora and our stay in Peru so far, we would like to briefly reflect on our month in Ecuador. We both really enjoyed our time in Ecuador. The landscapes and ecosystems that we saw throughout were very beautiful. In general, we found children and 50 year plus Ecuadorians to be ...