Mancora Beach Peru

Location :
North Coast of Peru, city of Piura.
By the Km 886 of the North Panamericana.

Kind of wave :
Reef-break, it´s a long left pipeline
reaching to 3 meters high.
No apt for beginners.

Sea performance :
Good conditions all the year especially
from December to March.
The fluent is strong, the average temperature of the
sea is from 21,7°C to 16,4°C.

Weather :
Tropical and dry. Good weather all the year.
The average temperature is from 35,2°C and 16°C.
Light rains from November to March.

Access :
Ground way: In the Km 886 of the North
Panamericana must take the aversion that drives you
to the Bayovar Terminal, from there, must head
toward the coast, reachable only with all terrain
vehicles.
Air Way: Flights to the city of Piura.

Services :
None. The nearest ones are in the
city of Bayovar and in Piura.

Huanchaco Beach Peru

Huanchaco beach, is located 8 miles away from Trujillo, ELIO is the surfing point , which made on a very exiting experience for people who love surfing. Summer is from december to april , the tempeture runs from 75 to 95. You will enjoy the olim-playas ask for it when ever you get there.
La Posa, Totoritas, and Huanchaquito are also places where you want to go. The pre-incas civilization where living in this lands for thousands of years, and they still use canoes to fish transposing this customs by generation , made with totoras ,type of reed which only grows in Huanchaco and the Titicaca lake, called caballitos de totora .

Its name comes from the Mochica word “Huacocha” that means “beautiful lagoon of the golden fishes.” Picturesque creek of fishermen and residential spa. Located at 13 km. (8 miles) northwest of Trujillo. During the Colonial age it was the main port of Trujillo. In the high part an old and beautiful church is located, in which the image of the “Virgen del Socorro” is venerated, disembarked in January 1537 by order of the King Carlos V from Spain. It is also conserved since 1707, in an urn, the intact body of Dean Saavedra, considered a miraculous saint.

It has great activity during the summer months (December to April). Good waves for the surf lovers, and comfortable inns and seafood restaurants. It is the best place to appreciate the famous “Caballitos de Totora” (small boats made out of straw) that at the moment some fishermen use to maintain the old tradition of the Mochicas fishermen from the III century. (more…)

Chicama Beach Peru

Chicama, located in the department of La Libertad, is famous for boasting the world’s longest wave. It divides into four sections: the point, the cape, the “man” and the “pier”. Each section is a wave in itself, with its own character and speed. Surfers say to surf Chicama, one needs an extra pair of legs.

The wave is a classic left-running Peruvian wave and grows with south and west-running currents. Its ideal size is 2 meters.

Location :
North Coast of Peru, in the city of La Libertad.
By the Km 614 of the North Panamericana.

Climate:
The climate is pleasant and sunny all year-long, with average temperatures of 18.9°C (maximum 30°C, minimum 16°C). The rain season runs from June-August. Warm and spring alike. Average temperature
between 28°C and 15°C. Strong winds zone.

Services:
The area has lodgings and restaurants. Lodging and food. Other services in the city of Trujillo.

Apt for all kinds of vehicles.

Kind of wave :
Point-break, left, considers the longest wave of the world. Pipeline with 4 sections that reaches the 2 meters. You’ll find strong winds against (offshore).

Sea performance :
Water regularly cold. Average temperature between 22.1°C and 17.7°C. Strong fluent, the south and west undulations are the proper ones. Waves all the year, more frecuently in winter.

Access :
Chicama lies 94 km (an hour-and-a-half) northwest of the city of Trujillo. The cove, also called Malabrigo, is reached by taking the detour at Paijan, at Kilometer 614 of the North Pan-American Highway.

Ground way:
In the Km 614 of the North Panamericana you’ll find Paijan Locality, from where starts a road to the Port of Chicama also known as Malabrigo Port. Access for all kind of vehicles also reachable by bus.

Air Way:
Flights to the city of Trujillo.

Cabo Blanco Peru

Located in the department of Piura, Cabo Blanco is widely held to feature the best left-breaking wave in Peru. A rapid and short wave (which makes a quick take-off obligatory) and one of the best tubes in the country. The wave can reach a height of 4 meters, although normally it ranges from 2-3 meters. The best time for surfing is from November to December.It’s a perfect left hander starting on sand bottom which progressively disappears to live on the open a rock reef. These waves are very fast and they brake with a PERFECT TUBULAR SHAPE along its trajectory. This wave can be surfed from 3 to 10 foot height. The best months to surf it are from October to March. The board size goes from 6′1′’ to 7′6′’. Cabo Blanco is known world wide as the Peruvian Pipeline.

It is also a dangerous wave as it breaks over a reef, which becomes more exposed when swells wash away the sand. Wave frequency depends directly on swells coming from the north (generated in the North Pole and which pass through Hawaii).

Climate:
Subtropical, warm and sunny all year-round. Temperatures range from 24°C-28°C.

Access:
Cabo Blanco lies 153 km north of the city of Piura. To get to Cabo Blanco, surfers need to take the winding paved road that runs from the town of El Alto, located at Kilometer 1,137 of the North Pan-American Highway.

Services:
Cabo Blanco is a fishing cove that has lodgings and restaurants. Apt for all kinds of vehicles.

Bermejo Beach Peru

Bermejo is located north of Lima, in what is known as the small north. It is about 2 and half hours away from Lima taking the freeway. It offers a left on a sand bar with a few rocky parts. The waves brake in an organized way, whit a long trajectory of approximately 400 mt, in tubular shape and with offshore wind. The size of the wave varies from two to 8 foots. The best months to surf this beach are between April and August. The board size can be from 6′0′’ to 6′6′’. In this beach there isn’t any kind of building or construction which makes it perfect for camping; at just 10 minutes from the beach there are lodges at good prices.

Location :
In the Central Coast of Peru, in the city of Ancash.
By the Km 223 of the
North Panamericana highway.

Kind of wave :
Point-break, left, long well formed.
Breaks since ½ meter through
the 3 meters aprox.
Tubular wave with the proper conditions.

Sea performance :
Cold water. Average temperature: 18°C.
Variable fluent. Waves all the year.

Weather :
Moderate. Changes accord to the season.
Average temperature: between
27°C and 15°C.

Access :
Ground way: In the Km 222 of the
North Panamericana must take the detour
of 3 Km through the beach. Apt to all kind of vehicles.

Services :
None, all in the city of Barranca in the Km 194.

Photo Safari

Hidden, silently and in perpetual vigilance, you watch both earth and sky, waiting for that perfect, once in a lifetime picture; the majestic, lingering flight of a condor, the sun disappearing behind the Puna highlands. Suddenly you seize your 35 millimeter weapon, concentrate, focus on the objective… and shoot.

Time is frozen.. Hunting for images inthe Andean world. Curtains open, sure fingers on the trigger… exploding flashes and multiplying “clicks” in an intense session of photographic shooting; but the ammunition runs out and you have to change the roll. On the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador there are so many sea and land creatures and so many different views that can hypnotize the camera.

Change of scene. Roads full of history, freezing hills, spectacular gorges, terrifying drops in the Andean highlands… and then you arrive to a viewing point thousands of metres above sea level. You raise your lens, point it to the sky and decide to wait for the arrival of the condor, the biggest flying bird in the world and, without doubt, one of those “preys” most yearned for by image hunters that can be captured at the Ulla Ulla National Reserve in Bolivia, or at the Colca Canyon in Peru.

Thanks to its vast geography and great diversity of flora and fauna species, the Andean region is an ideal destination for photographic safari lovers, one tourist activity that has been become more intensely developed in recent years. There is no fatigue or tiredness in waiting, only the desire to shoot nonstop and so capture the images and shades of a region full of attractions and natural wealth.

Bosque de Pomac

The Bosque de Pomac Historic Sanctuary is located in the District of Pítipo, Province of Ferreñafe (Department of Lambayeque). It embraces a surface of 5887.38 hectares, which represent 0.41% of the Department’s total area, and the River La Leche crosses it by the middle.

Its definite categorisation as a Historic Sanctuary has contributed in establishing a solid base to face deforestation and the loss of genetic quality amongst the wild flora and fauna species. Besides defining the guidelines to propose the modalities and intensities of its indirect utilisation, for best managing and conserving this protected natural area and its zone of influence.

The Bosque de Pomac Historic Sanctuary protects 0.2% of the total area of the Pacific Tropical Desert, where two of the three life zones developing on this type of zone are found in here, the Super Arid Tropical Desert and the Super Arid Pre-Mountainous Desert. Various vegetal communities develop in here, such as the Dense and Semi-Dense Forests, Shrubs, and the most important natural concentration of locust trees in the country.

The Algarrobal (forest of locust trees) is the dominating community in the north of the country. It is mainly associated to the sapote (Capparis angulata) and to the faique or long spine (Acacia macracantha), the bichayo or oval-leaf clustervine (Capparis ovalifolia), and bushes such as the Vallesia dichotoma in a lesser proportion. This forest has a high economic value in non-woodwork products, such as the algarroba, honey, as well as for eco-tourism. (more…)