Yoga hotel: $70 Samana Chakra is a new thatched-roof bungalow resort on the northern end of the beach, owned by an ex-marketing director from California and his wife, a Peruvian yoga instructor.

A night out with Juan Seminario, owner of Sirena Café Bar, chef at La Sirena d’ Juan, and surfer. “You’re more likely to see bikini tops and flip-flops out at night in Mancora than high ...

When she built that home, in 1998, Mancora didn’t even have electricity and seemed ages away from drawing tourism. (Although she ran a simple hotel at the time.) But a lot can happen in 20 years.

Máncora, not Monaco, is the destination for the jet-setting crowd of Peru. This beachside resort town is on the Pacific Ocean, near the country’s northernmost border that it shares with Ecuador ...

Police said an unknown number of injured passengers were transported to hospitals in El Alto and Mancora, popular resorts some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) north of Lima.

Loki builds new oceanfront hostel in Mancora, Peru . Loki Hostels (lokihostel.com), the popular accommodation choice for backpackers and adventure-seekers traveling through South America, has built ...

Police patrol the beach in the seaside resort town of Mancora, Peru, where Michael Melymick and his girlfriend Teneille Aulotte were in lockdown for 20 days. (Michael Melymick ) ...

Northern exposure: Times are changing in Peru, especially in the north. On the beach in Mancora, a lovely small boutique hotel called KiCHIC opened in January 2014.