Everyone told me I'd love Mancora, it's "like the Cancun" of Peru. Ummm, no.
Don't get me wrong, the ocean is beautiful... But mean and windy!! There's hardly any beach area.
The town is getting eaten by the ocean. This can be seen along the main beach, the shore/tide is coming up and not receding.
The town is bigger than I thought, the touristy part is rundown and consists on 2.5 main roads.
The first is the PanAm North where the clothes & craft market is along with bakeries, tourism agencies, banks, pharmacies and little grocery stores. the other is the main to the beach which has expensive crap for the beach and some restaurants and then along the sea shore there's restaurants and bars.
There are sea food restaurants everywhere!
There are tuktuks everywhere.
Along the main, in the direction of the market, there's the 7soles family runned lunch place, where all the tuktuk drivers go. It's called Restaurante Oriental. Don't order Tallarin of anything.
What annoys me about Mancora is that they're not trying to keep it nice! Like, it has a few resorts, but not at all like Cancun quality!
I went once, I don't usually go to resorts, but I sure know what the quality's like in Mexico...
So, the sand is not as thin, there isin't much beach space and it's kinda all crumbling/falling apart.
There's also a ton of hippies. Especially the ones that come to the place whilst you're eating. They play 2-3 shitty songs and want you to give them a coin. Assholes.
Time to move on. Tomorrow: Ecuador! :)
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