I have commited to a Peru trip. I should be there a week from today.
I basing myself in Mancora and have contcated Peru Kite camp to help me out
i hope it is as good as i have heard.
Any tips suggestions welcome
Lobitos, Pacamayas are the focus might head to CHicama 500km south of there if that is a better option.
you will have a great trip, i'm jealous.
a good tip for south american travel in general is to never rely on anything happening on time; leave plenty of room for error or you will miss planes buses meals etc. not a bad thing- it's just how things work over there and you need to adjust to it...
don't stay in Mancora, stay at Lobitos ;)
Unless you like to spend more time driving in a car then you do on the water.
Enjoy, 
Learn some Spanish, just my 2cents...
Nah, not jealous, booked 14days at Bali, two weeks from today...
Enjoj and Hasta La Vista!
just got back from a month in south america! loved it, you'll have a great time, yes learn spanish!!! its a big help, also dont get any peruvian soles (local cash) in australia, just take out of atm at lima airport or excahnge there, you always get ripped off in australia exchanging money, we still live n the 1970's here, the rest of the world has moved on and excepted money exchanges as a normal part of life, here its like a "special thing" and also theres no carbon tax in peru either so your up already! hmmmmm pisco sour.........enjoy.
Airfares from Perth were $4k, could have been a bit cheaper if i had of booked earlier.
I'lll be there a few weeks behind you Wal. Mid August. If you're still going to be around let me know and I'll pm you phone my number. 
You're sooooo lucky!!!!! The water will be cold though...
I spent 2 months in Peru 3 yrs ago. Hope you have time to travel a little.
So much great memories of bus and car rides in the Andes...must turn your self-preservation switch OFF!!!
4k??? 
Maybe I should go back
been to peru 2times in august -september for 2months. Not so many waves up at mancora this time of year, as they get the north swell. Lobitos get some south swell, but when it on alot of people head there to surf (don't like kiters in the surf zone) not much to do there if no waves or wind. Pacasmayo is an insane wave to kite and surf, wind start about 10-11 in the morning and cross off, but not to much. Make sure u can kite well, not so much beach to launch and the wind can get gusty close to shore, if not lobitos has alot of beach and alot easier to kite, but pascasmayo picks up more swell then most places. Chicama is about 1hour drive south from pacasmayo, if pacasmayo is 6foot chicama wil be half the size, but if u get it pumping its an incredible wave. Buses r the way to travel, they go to most of the places u need to be at. If u stay at pacasmayo yhe best place to stay is elfaro resort overlooking the hole beach, cost about us30 a night. If your on a budget u can stay in town at the surf hostel call duke (pronounced DU KA) for us5-10. If your into your waves kiting and surfing pacasmayo is deff 1 off the best (1.5 km long) and the buses leave at night and get there in mornig, if u get the the right one and then u can get a bus from there to mancora north, but don't expect to many waves there at this time of year. But lobitos is a great wave, same tpye of wind set up as pacasmayo (10-11 winds up) Hope this help u...... ps watch yourself and your stuff there, alot of thieves.....tez
