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Tumbes

Town in Tumbes, Peru

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Overview

Tumbes is the capital of the department of the same name in the Region Grau of Peru.

Where to eat, drink and stay

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Hotel ArrecifeUS$25
Great looking hotel right on the beach. Rooms are US$25 for a small private single, and not much more for a private double or triple.
Price
US$25
Address
Av Faustinno Piaggo 158, Zorritos
Directions
In Zorritos, about 15-25 minutes out of Tumbes
Phone
+51 72 54 4462
Website
arrecifehotel.com
Hotel Costa Del SolUS$90 or S/270.
Price
US$90 or S/270.
Directions
in the main plaza
Hotel Feijoo
Good quality, with many Chinese eateries and shops nearby.
Directions
Feijoo St

Getting there and around

Getting there

By bus
National buses run along the Panamerican Highway from Lima to Tumbes and some to the frontier with Ecuador.

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Getting around

There are kombis to beach resorts, and colectivos to the frontier.

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Captain Pedro Canga Rodríguez International Airport

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Itineraries

Pan-American Highway

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Peruvian national parks

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Peruvian cuisine

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Inca Trail

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UnderstandTumbes is a gritty, mostly unpleasant city, though a gateway to beach resorts, mangroves and national parks in its vicinity.

Get inLATAM flies from Lima (LIM) daily at 19:00 (2 hr, US$200 one-way).

Get aroundThere are kombis to beach resorts, and colectivos to the frontier.

SeeWhite sand beaches, mangroves, Tumbes River & national parks like Cerros de Amotape. The manglares are a series of swamplike everglade type islands in the shallow water.

DoObserve the beautiful mosaics in the town, including a 6-m (20-ft) 3-D mosaic of Jesus's ascension into heaven. Others can be found across the various plazas.

EatSeafood is of course plentiful and affordable. There are many chifas, Chinese restaurants with a Peruvian flavor, on Feijoo Street. Many delicious dessert shops are on the market street.

Stay safeTumbes is not a dangerous city at all, but it is indeed a place of many scams run by mixed Ecuadorian/Peruvian gangs, with the complicity of the frontier police and some bus companies.

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Guide text adapted from the Wikivoyage article "Tumbes" by its contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikivoyage · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Summary from the Wikipedia article "Tumbes, Peru", available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia
Photo: Juan A. Morales C., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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