Things to do in Tumbes
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Las Terrazas
A little bit out of the town center, this popular place is well worth the S1 mototaxi ride. Packed with hungry diners daily, it serves up heaped plates of seafood, and will ceviche or cook anything from fish to lobster to octopus. It’s all prepared in the northern coastal style and they have live folk music on the weekends. It’s on a classy 3rd-floor terrace and has flowing tablecloths, lots of decorations and a festive mood.
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Museo de Cabeza de Baca
About 5km south of town, off the Pan-American Hwy, is an overgrown archaeological site that was the home of the Tumpis people and, later, the site of the Inca fort visited by Pizarro. The story is told in the tiny site museum, Museo de Cabeza de Baca, which also displays some 1500-year-old ceramic vessels.
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Budabar
Occupying a huge cavernous space and with streetside tables, this place has a full bar and serves typical Peruvian fare, including the usual chicken, fish and beef suspects. As you might have guessed from the name, this joint serves shots and cold beers until the wee hours.
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Classic Restaurant
Small, quiet and dignified, Classic Restaurant is a wonderful place to escape torrid Tumbes and relax with a long lunch, as many of the town’s better-connected locals do. The food is good and mainly coastal, but secretly we love this place for its air-con.
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Restaurant Sí Señor
With pleasant streetside tables outside and quixotic, slow-turning fans inside, Sí Señor serves delicious seafood dishes – any kind of a grilled fish is a great bet here.
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Restaurant Latino
This popular place serves from a long menu of Peruvian food, especially seafood. You can eat inside, or outside on the shaded pavement.
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Cocodrilos Tours
Does tours to the reserves as well as to local beaches, mud baths and Puerto Pizarro.
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Preference Tours
Runs some of the most economical tours in town if you have a group of three or more.
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