Mollendo is a beach resort situated at the Pacific coast, that attracts mainly national tourists. And us. After all, during the whole time we were there, we did see about 3 other occidental tourists... The first evening was a little bit disappointing, our hotel was nice, VERY calm, abuela (grandmother) welcoming us to El Hostelito, 3 min walking from the town center and the beach. And the price was correct, 60 soles / night (15€ for the two of us). According some guide books Mollendo is a lively town with an active night life... We never found any of that... In the evening we wanted to go for a dinner and a drink, the drink we never found and at the dinner we felt a bit lonely... But we did see the Virgin Mary and the Christ procession again... With the leader of the group singing in a megaphone in the streets... So we decided to modify our plan and stay only for one night.
The following morning we went to the beach. We rented a parasol and two beach chairs for less than 2€, the beach was beautiful with huge waves and very cold water. It is true that our geography knowledge on cold currents is a bit lacking.. we actually thought that we could swim in the Pacific down here... The day on the beach was relaxing, sunbathing and drinking some local beer, Arequipeña. It was a better integrating day, all kinds of locals came to talk to us... Let´s say that they were a bit surprised to see "white" tourists...
In the evening we took the lovely local bus back to Arequipa and went directly for an excellent meal, meat for two, including ostrich, alpaca, lamb and beef, with four delicious sauces and a bottle of Argentinian wine. The resaurant is called Zig Zag and the owner is swiss, all this cost us 20€. For the night we went back to the Casa Tintin and in the early morning we took the bus to Puno.
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