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Sertur ( 94-199-1662; www.serturonline.com ; Tumbes 502) Faster minivans to
Máncora and Piura every 30 minutes between 5:30am and 8:30pm.
Shaday Adornay ( 61-8672; cnr Tumbes & Piura) Faster minivans to Máncora and
Piura hourly between 7am and 10pm.
Tepsa ( 52-2428; www.tepsa.com.pe ; Tumbes 199) To Lima at 4pm .
Transportes Chiclayo ( 52-5260; www.transporteschiclayo.com ; Tumbes 570) Daily
buses to Chiclayo via Máncora at 12:30pm and 9pm.
Transportes El Dorado ( 52-3480 www.transporteseldorado.com.pe ; Tacna 251)
Thirteen daily buses to Piura and departures to Chiclayo and Trujillo at 7:30pm, 9pm and
10:30pm.
From around the market area, colectivos for Puerto Pizarro leave from the corner of
Castilla and Feijoo; for Zorritos, combis depart from Castilla near Ugarte; for Rica Playa,
combis depart from Ugarte 404 near Castilla. Ask locals as the stops aren't marked. For
Máncora, faster, air-conditioned minivan service offices congregate around the corner of
Tumbes and Piura. On the southwest corner of the same intersection, slower, cheaper
combis also depart regularly. Buses to Casitas leave at 1pm (S10, five hours).
Getting Around
A taxi to the airport is about S20. There are no combis to the airport.
Around Tumbes
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About 14km north of Tumbes, the character of the oceanfront changes from the coastal
desert, which stretches more than 2000km north from central Chile to northern Peru, to
the mangrove swamps that dominate much of the Ecuadorean and Colombian coastlines.
There's an explosion of birdlife here, with up to 200 different migrating species visiting
these areas. Boats can be hired to tour the mangroves; one tour goes to a crocodile sanc-
tuary where you can see Peru's only crocodiles being nursed back from near extinction.
The nearby Isla de Aves can be visited (but not landed on) to see the many nesting
seabirds, especially between 5pm to 6pm, when huge flocks of birds return to roost for the