SO! Much to tell...and its going to be hard to put it into a big blog....so bare with me. From Santa Teresa, we headed to the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica to Puerto Viejo. Biggest tourist town ever! We had to transfer buses in San Jose and we had our first experience with being ripped off. Nothing huge, but we had to transfer to another bus terminal so we took a cab. We were chatting with this guy that was on our first bus, asking where he was going, and he said the same terminal as us. So we decided to [View Full Entry]

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We headed to Monteverde from Liberia since I last wrote, which is essentially a cloud forest/rain forest. It was freezing and raining pretty much the whole time we were there but still beautiful as the sun would come out and spread a rainbow across the sky every now and then, making everything just peachy keen. The town itself is almost like banff - very small and quaint. We stayed in a hostel that was part of a tour company downstairs, however this helped since we wanted to do a canopy tour. We went to a little cafe upon our arrival for [View Full Entry]

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I dont even know where I last left off with the blogs...I think in Granada? Anyways, from Granada we headed to San Juan del Sur which is on the pacific coast of Nicaragua. It was fairly nice there, a real surfer town with looots of tourists. We stayed in a nice enough place overlooking to beach and met some aussies and canadians on the beach who we later met up with at the local sports bar to watch the Super Bowl. Wooooo! Before leaving San Juan, we went to Playa Maderas which is about a 45min drive from there. It was [View Full Entry]

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WOW! We´re in Granada now and it is HOT. We left Leon a few days ago and headed to Masaya for a night where the best market is. I´m not going to say what I bought...mostly for Alyssa´s sake, but its pretty sweet. After that, we headed to Laguna de Apoyo, which is a lake inside of a volcano crater. We stayed at a place called the Monkey Hut which felt like a really nice cottage. Very relaxing and quiet which was nice after the hussle and bussle of market life in Masaya and Leon. We spent the day just lying [View Full Entry]

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So after a relaxing few days in Utila, scuba diving, chilling with some fellow canadians, and just taking it all in...we made it Leon, Nicaragua after a day and a half of driving (left the Bay Islands at 620am and made it to a town right outside the border of Nicaragua at about 10pm). Its beautiful here...quite like Antigua. Old churches (the biggest in Central America is here), very lively, but the surrounding areas are the poorest I think I´ve seen to date. We´re staying in a hostel called the Big Foot...very english. It has a tiny little pool in the [View Full Entry]

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So we made it across three countries in one day...leaving Belize, crossing Guatemala and then into Honduras where we are now. We're on a tiny little island called Utila...and its just beautiful. Its a super party town, like nooooon-stop but we haven't quite immersed ourselves in it yet cause we've been diving! Super cheap beautiful dives here. Its great. We're staying at a dive shop for sooo cheap - if you dive, you dont pay for your accomodations that day. If you dont dive, you pay $2 US. Not a bad deal at all. There are a lot of Canadians here...most [View Full Entry]

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Wow this internet is slow so this is going to be very very short. I've tried a few times now to upload some pics, but no luck. We left Caye Caulker this morning after completing our open water scuba diving yesterday. I was pretty happy to get that certification I tell you. We're in Placencia now, this tiny little village down the coast. We're heading to Punta Gorda tomorrow where we will be catching the ferry to Guatemala the next day in order to get us closer to the Bay Islands in Honduras. Its really nice and laid back here - [View Full Entry]

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So, we went to Tikal yesterday and the day before. Pretty amazing spot. A huge mayan ruins sight with temples and the whole shabang. We camped there overnight, with our new travel group - Stina (Norway), Andrew (Australia), Josh (Denver) and Scotty (Australia). We're all very impressed we've been able to travel for so long together and not bite each others heads off. We went from Lanquin to Tikal and now here together, however sadly Josh had to leave today so the dynamic is a bit off. In any case, we woke up early the next morning in Tikal (5:30) to [View Full Entry]

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Wow. Wow wow wow wow. I never thought things would get more beautiful, until my birthday came along. I dont have words to describe this place. Essentially, is a huge river with different pools that you can swim in and its just gorgeous aqua colour. We also went into a cave that was essentially full of water...so that was an adventure as well. I couldn´t bring my camera in there which sucked, but in any case, it was amazing. We all had our own individual candles to light the way but it was scary at certain points when there was no [View Full Entry]

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So after a stop over in Coban for a night, we made it to Lanquin yesterday around lunch time. I´ve never seen something so beautiful. We´re staying at a place called El Retiro...a field full of bamboo huts, a river right outside our door, and surrounded by mountains. Its so peaceful. We´re sleeping in a loft, so we have our own little private room. Its great. We went tubing yesterday down the river right from our hostel. It was about a 20min tube ride through the trees. It was so cool. Then we got to ride in the back of a [View Full Entry]

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