Mmmm... waking up to the sound of the waves crashing on the shore is a pretty good way to wake from our slumber! The downside of that is that Mancora is a party town and the music is blasting until about 3am every night but that seems a small price to pay. I deliberately found a place that was away from the main hustle and bustle, and the beach itself as I had read that it is a pretty noisy town, so chose the spot on the top of the hill,what I didn't think was that noise does travel up, but as I say it isn't a great worry.
We have just been relaxing, spending quite a bit of time in our hammock and deck chairs watching the surfers and kite surfers, whilst doing that we managed to see hump backed whales in the distance migrating north... how amazing is that! We are still seeing if we can organise a boat to take us out to see them up close, although it is very hit and miss if we see them again. Yesterday we took a motor taxi to some hot springs. It was a bumpy old ride through desert terrain to a pit in the ground. There were a couple of locals in the water and a couple of police just sitting there watching. We tried not to feel too self conscious as we stripped off and jumped in.. It was very hot with thick mud in the bottom. Our tuktuk driver got in with us and showed us to cover ourselves with the mud at the bottom, this was probably to give them a laugh, but we did it! It was pretty impossible to get the mud off so afterwards we had to come back smelling pretty bad and jump in the ocean! When we went out last night the girls said that my skin looked amazing and every line and wrinkle had disappeared so I am obviously going back today to get a bucket load of mud!
Had the best meal ever last night! Jo and I had the most delicious tuna steaks... It was wonderful! We have had a girly night out having a few drinks which was fun, although the girls immediately become over protective and feel sure that because I am such a light weight that I will fall off the hillside on the hike back up to our lovely little sanctuary!
All of us would like to just stay here for another week or so but we also know that we need to get on with our adventure. We have tracked Ross down and he has agreed to meet us in the jungle at Iquitos and it will take us a while to trek overland to get there. Still we have another two days before the next part of our adventure so we will make the most of it!
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