Hi all, We have ended our previous entry traveling in & around Panama City. Well, today I will take you with us from Panama City to Cartagena in Colombia, a trip on a sail boat! Yes, we know; A cruise sounds like a very special and romantic journey: Blue ocean, sail boat (yacht, if you'd like), cold beers on deck, partying at moonlight, etc. The truth is far from that, unfortunately, it was not anything like the vision we had in mind - at all - and today we thank (god?) we have literally survived it. Though we were not far from not surviving it. The sail boat - Awab - was waiting for us in Carti which is the main 'town' in the San Blas Islands, the land of the Kuna people. To get to ... read more

Hi all, This is Nitzan, and I am going to write you about Bocas Del Toro. From Boqute we took a bus to a city called David, from there we took another bus to a town called Almirante, and from there we had to take a boat to Isla Colon, so on the bus we asked the driver if there are still boats at 6:00 p.m. when we arrive and he said there are no, Why didn't you say so before? before we arrived Almirante. Anyway we had to get off the bus and look for a hotel, you know it was not that easy as you think, the bus drops you a few meters out of town and you need to look for where to sleep. Luckily there are no hotels/ hostels in town there ... read more

Hi all, This entry is going to be really short! Upon returning to San Jose from our Caribbean adventures - we took the time to rearrange. We did laundry, some shopping and quite a lot of schooling for the kids. OK, TV watching too... The only two things worth mentioning from our 2 days in San Jose are: 1.Butterfly Garden, a Xanadu within San Jose - we spent 3 great hours in this tiny hidden butterfly garden, located right in the center of the city. We have seen many different butterflies, some of which we have already seen before in nature, but at last we could actually take photos of... We got some interesting explanations from one of the local employees about their life cycle, he showed us their eggs, their caterpillars and their cocoons. He ... read more

Hello all, More than 6 months have passed by. More than 25,000 km are behind us, traveled by air, ground and water. We are missing so many things and in this short entry we would like to share with all of you, dear friends and family the things we miss most, day by day: Israeli food: Humus and Tehina topped with garlic, parsley and olive oil accompanied with freshly baked Pita bread; Burekas filled with cheese or mashed potatoes; Chocolate Rogalach (Israeli sweet pastry filled with chocolate); Jachnun / Melawach (Yemen pastries cooked for 12 hours over-night in the oven), topped with tomato sauce or honey; Israeli vegetable reach salad; Spanish food: Tapas of all kinds, but especially - chocos, pimientos padrones, bonuelos de bacalau ; sea food - our Friday 'ritual' shrimps with cream sauce ... read more

Hi, Our first Costa Rica entry! Our flights to Costa Rica were very tiring and time consuming - mainly due to the fact we had to spent the majority of the night in Sao Paulo airport (from 10 pm till the check in time at 4 am) - and we can tell you that the waiting chairs in this airport are everything but comfort... Any way, after 3 flights (Salvador to Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo to Lima (Peru) and Lima to San Jose, we survived it to San Jose, the capital city of Costa Rica. Upon arrival to San Jose we took a bus and then walked a little to get to the hostel (Pension de la Cuesta) we booked in advance (can it be that we are getting better with our planning? No, it is ... read more