After two weeks in Trujillo, I headed up the North coast of Peru to the lovely (and warm!) beach of Mancora, which is close to the Ecuadorian border. I spent a couple of days there hanging out on the beach, swimming, surfing, and gorging myself on seafood! Mancora is the place for Peruvians to go for a beach holiday, and it's not surprising -- Mancora is one of very few beaches in Peru that has water that's warm enough that you'd actually want to swim in. Even though the country is close to the equator, the water is cold (see, current, Humboldt). Anyways, I really enjoyed a few days there, especially knowing that it would pretty much be the last warm weather I would see until next June or so (the rest of my trip is basically in cold places, and I get to return to CO winter in December).
I only took a few pictures there, but here they are:
After Mancora, I took the ~18 hour bus ride to Lima, and spent a couple of days there in the very fancy neighborhood of Miraflores. The highlight here was paragliding above the coastal cliffs of Lima. Really amazing!
OK, so after Lima I headed to Arequipa, where I stayed for a few days and did a trek down into the massive Colca Canon (which is almost 3 times as deep as the grand canyon in parts). The pics really don't do any of this justice, but I'll put em up here just to give a flavor of what it was like.
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Sean, me encantaron tus fotos!
Sean what a great sojourn you are on. I am both slightlyjealous, and a bit in awe. This really is the stuff of life and u r da man!
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