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First of all, Thank you Costa Rica but Hello Panama... We spent our final days of our time in Costa Rica in a place called Dominical which was very nice but not much else to do but surf. Unfortunately for us the wave´s were about 6 to 8 ft high we decided to give it a miss and luckily we found a horse riding trek to some beautiful waterfalls. The horse ride was pretty uneventful and to be honest I renamed my horse ¨glue¨as i think that was his next step in life and i almost jumped off and picked him up. Suzanne quickly found her inner cowgirl and was off at full steam and all in all a very enjoyable day. Following walking funny for the evening we packed our bags and headed to Panama. ... read more

Bye Bye Nicaragua, we will certainly miss the people and of course the cheap prices (and beers). So hello Costa Rica after a fairly easy boarding crossing using the Tica bus to cross to get to Liberia which we used to connect to Tamarindo, the first thing we noticed after getting off the bus was the fact that Burger King, McDonalds and every other yankee fast food place were here, considering there were none of these in Nicaragua we were a bit disappointed. After one night in Liberia we caught the bus to Tamarindo, or at least we thought we caught the bus to Tamirindo. Luckily after we noticed the bus turning away from Tamarindo and we managed to jump off at a junction and catch the right bus so eventually we made it after a ... read more

Wow, time is flying by already so i guess i had better make an update on how we are doing. We landed in the capital of Nicaragua (Managua) last Monday and haven't stopped since. We stayed only one night in Managua as it is pretty rough and not the best place in the world, its one of those places you dont even go out at night and the visit is purely for the purpose of connecting further transportation and going someplace else but boy is it hot here, we have gone from almost -30 to +30 in one day... As for us, the next destination was a place called Leon, just north of Managua, and why were we heading to Leon - to board down the side of an active Volcano, yep a 2 hour hike ... read more

How hot - in case your wondering - it's very hot, I'm not sure I’m going to actually write about Dubai as I might let the pictures do the talking about our favourite parts... Oh why not, when we arrived we didn't know where we were going to go so we jumped in a taxi and asked for a "cheap" hotel downtown, ha ha, as if there is such a thing as a cheap hotel in Dubai - so where do we end up - in a hotel/brothel, mmmmmmmmmm not exactly what I had in mind so the next morning we checked out and found some where without the assistance of a taxi driver... Our next hotel, which did not rent rooms out by the hour, did however have shuttle buses to the beach and to ... read more

So we arrive by taxi and not public bus as we once again wus out as we were offered a pretty cheap deal to our next destination - Kandy. A little while ago you may have read we were in the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, and while we were there we met a great kiwi couple called Leigh and Gail from Auckland. As it turns out one of their good friends lives in Kandy - and also lives in a large house and had some spare room for a couple of wondering souls and very kindly offered us a roof over our heads while we were in Kandy - Danny you’re a star. So after we’re dropped off at the pub it’s not long until we meet our new host and then it’s a ... read more