Lobitos E

Peru- Küste 

Lobitos, Peru

Lobitos: Desert until the sea, fine sand on the beach, cold water, high waves - a paradise for surfers with view on oil rigs.
Here you can meet young people from all over the world who came for the waves and also for parties. Remember this place, if you want to surf cheap, starting from the outfit to hire until the accommodation. Here we found the best waves we have seen on the whole coast from Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. If you want to try without wet suit you must like icy water, the water really is cold.


We came from Piura by plane and then by bus to Talara and further to Lobitos, but there is also a small airport in Talara.

The food is better to buy in Talara, the next city about 40 minutes from Lobitos. There you have a big variety at the market and small restaurants around.
The Peruan coast has a lot of variety of sea food and of intensive flavor. "Ceviche" for example, is made of raw seafood with lemon and mixed with salad. They prepare the food in front of your eyes in small shops or in restaurants.

From Talara to Lobitos you have a bus shuttle service, the buses wait until they are full. It is only a 40 minutes ride.
Desert, oil rigs, pipelines until and in Lobitos.

There are a lot of  "pousadas", small family hotels with good prices. At the beach you find cafes and restaurants. We were asking ourselves why so many restaurants - until the weekend. Then everything is crowded. People come from elsewhere, if possible by their own car until the sea and there is loud music everywhere. Many of the shops are opened only on weekends.
These tourists leave their rubbish on the beach, but it is cleaned up. On monday, when the tourists and the rubbish is gone, it is calm again and Lobitos turns to a paradise for oil and surfers again.

Become and gone in Lobitos

Ilha do mel - E

Ilha do mel

Not far away from Cotijuba you can find a paradise for tourists, that seems to be left naturally: Ilha do mel.

You can take the bus from Cotijuba, on weekends also a tourist train with tourist fee, but through a nice landscape, but only to Paranguá. The tour by train is an attraction, therefore longer than going by bus. From Paranguá you have to take the bus to reach the harbor for ilha do mel, but it is only a short way.

The island consists of 2 parts, the northern one is a reservation and only open for tourists at the beach. The southern part has nice trails through the forest. Starting from the middle of the island you can walk at about 2 hours to the south. We took a boat to the middle of the island and the next day another boat back to the continent.

On the island there are only bikes and motorbikes, no cars. Normally you can walk and watch birds and lizards, protected by the woods from the sun and mostly plain.

In the tense middle of the island and in the south you have harbors with regular boat-connection to the continent. Next to the harbors there are small shops and accomodation with different prices.

The coast itself is vacant with few exceptions and you can find wonderful beaches at any taste. What about severage collection - we did not find out. the fact is that I got an infection at the island, probably by dirty water in the sea.

To reach the south of the island, we had to pass a portal of stone . Wild and romantic :))