Left early from Boquete, only took about an hour this time to get to David where I had a terrible time getting a ride to the Lost and Found place, my Spanish is not very good and the bus conductor is speaking so rapidly i cant keep up, a nice Belgian dude helped me out he was already sat at the collectivo going for Changuinola, between the two of us we managed to understand the guy but not without difficulty, most of the time me and the Belgian look at each other trying to see if one of us understood the [View Full Entry]

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The bus ride to David, Panama took us to different types of climates in the highlands and in the dry humid areas of Costa Rica, soon as we got down the mountains it was quite hot and we struggled , the bus is not airconditioned. While having a lunch stop, we chatted with a local truck driver going to panama to pick up his load, we met Hannah, the only other backpacker in the bus, from NZ, very friendly, she thought of going to Boquete with me but changed her plans later. Daniel is still undecided.. At the border we got [View Full Entry]

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The bus ride from the Nicaraguan border to San Jose seems like a blast from the past for me, when travelling in Africa our truck got stopped many times by police control, same here in CR 4 times at least during our bus trip, and apparently they are looking for stowaway illegal Nicas. San Jose as usual is bustling, it was quite cold and cloudy, at the bus stop I was quoted more than twice the fare by taxi drivers to get to my hostel so i decided to walk and find the Central Ave. I decided to get money from [View Full Entry]

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Casa Oro is the most popular hostel here in San Juan del Sur, we got the 2 last beds for the night, Joey and i headed for lunch and we had clams ceviche, not as good as in El Zonte and the fried fish was OK. I left my favorite Brazil hat but when I cam back for it the waiter who found it is already off duty, they told me to come back later or the next day. We took it easy for now being our first day here, had a few drinks as we watched the sunset. Then back [View Full Entry]

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In Rivas we arrived before the rains came and managed to get a taxi for $1 per person to take us to San Jorge a town where the ferry to Ometepe docks. We had a good lunch first of a fish called Mojarra, very delicious and its from the lake. We bought our ferry ticket for 230pm, the Danish girls we met travelling took the lancha at 130pm, we heard it was supposed to be really rough in the afternoon so we skipped it plus a lancha is much smaller. Arriving in Mayogalpa we took a local bus to drop us [View Full Entry]

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Taking the taxi to the bus station we took a collectivo to Managua and we got dropped off at the bus station to take a connecting bus to Granada, a good 1 hour away. We got dropped off at the plaza and we walked to find the Bearded Monkey, when we arrived there the young Canadian loverboy from last nite and his friend was there just checking in, they left hours before us but they did the longer way. we all looked at each other and had a laugh about last night. He apologised later to us, thankfully they are on [View Full Entry]

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Up at 4am Perquin is still dark we struggled to wake up we caught the first bus out for km18 and then half asleep we got off and waited for a bus to Santa Rosa de Lima,the conductor duped us, he charged $2 each for an hour bus ride, quite cheap but if you know how much cheaper it actually is travelling here, oh well never mind we got there and was able to take the bus to El Amatillo the border town where we got harassed by touts offering to take us to the other side which is Nicaragua, we [View Full Entry]

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At the bus station in San Miguel, we were told by bus drivers the next bus to Perquin is at 10am so we have a few hours to kill then a young lady grabbed my arm and told me it was a lie and that in 10 minutes a bus will pull up, and indeed it happened, so we hopped on the very crowded bus, pedro sitting next to the pretty young lady who befriended us. The bus ride was long took about 3 hours to get there and quite slow on the way uphill, Joey was frustrated! Arriving in town [View Full Entry]

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Getting to El Zonte, one of the best beaches in El Salvador to go surfing was a challenge, from Juayua we have to get off at Sonsonate then a bus to Santa Tecla, then La Libertad then to El Zonte. Good thing transport here is quite cheap and the roads in this country are well paved and so quite good. The waiting for chicken buses to show up really tests your patience though. Arriving in El Zonte we found Esencia Nativa, we promised Thor the Dane to meet him up there, Alex the owner right away welcomed us in and he [View Full Entry]

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Casa Frolaz is the name of the place we are staying in Santa Ana, dropped our things in the dorm room and left for metro center mall to internet eat and chill, then we headed to town center so the boys can check out travel agencies to book their tickets. Coming back to the hostel we had some red wine and just chill, it was quite windy and gusting quite strong. Then all of a sudden the owner Javier came in the room and said something like check your belongings as there was a suspicious dude who checked in earlier claiming [View Full Entry]

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