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Published: February 10th 2008
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So after my last entry i headed back to the hostel and chatted with some other travlers and paid my money for the volcano trip the following day, it was a pretty lazy evening as i had a veggie quissidilla from the cafe at the hostel and then watched CSI New York and Law and Order Special Victims unit and then went to bed at 11 and the fan was on in the dorm but all it did was make noise and was not much use to be honest and then the staff decided to play pool and the table is right outside the dorm i was in and i could keep hearing the clanking of the balls, i dug out my ear plugs and eventually fell asleep and i got up at 9.30am which was a lie really although i felt really tired?
The Volcano trip was not until 2pm and so i intially went and got a 100 dollar bill changed into smaller notes and then i went to the supermarket to get pasta and pasta sauce,banannas and water so i was self sufficent and not oreding through the hostel. I got back and made breakfast which was
a packet of oatmeal Erin had givern me back in LA. Then i made the pasta and drank a fair bit of water as it was really warm, then i went for a walk and took some pics in the catherdral and i met a local guy who did not have much english but tried which was nice and i had spoken to a few locals the day before, it seems that Nican´s are a friendly bunch and so far out of Central America i think i would only come back to Nica.
I headed back to the hostel and i had previsouly just booked to hike the volcano and had changed my mind and decided i wanted to do the hike and board down the volcano, the guy on recption did not have the right change, so i decided that was that then.
I went and pulled up a chair in the courtyard area and watched a film with some other travellers, it then came time to go the volcano Cerro Nergo, the was 22 of us and we were split between two pick ups and were taken out to the volcano by a couple, they were
darryn and kim, darryn is an aussie and kim is dutch and then have been together and doing these trips for some time.
About 30 mins or so we got to the volcano and it was an awesome sight, we paid the park entrance fee as this was seprate and then we drove to the base of the volcano and we all gotten givern a niffty orange suit and board, the must not have been aware i had not sorted out the extra couple of dollars and i was not going to complain, kim took us up and gave us some history of the volcano and aera and surrounding volcanos and we took breaks on the way up and eventually we got to the yop and it was great to be on a volcano and to see in a crater, something i have never done before.
We walked round to the most active crater which was hot and smoking sulphur, the volcano is active and according to the cycle was suppose to errupt last year, the were loads of insects at the top as the heat attracts them and then the is nothing up their for them and so they die.
We all took pictures at the top, in the pick up with me was an austrian girl who i had borrowed her laptop the night before to copy piccys on to my external hard drive as it did not work in the internet cafe pc´s, also a danish couple, finnish couple, am american,candian girl and a dutch guy called jorris.
When we got to the top i talked to some of the other travellers and the were a few americans and one guy had hitched all the way through cost rica which is cool.
Darryn then came up and him and Kim told us to get suited and showed us how to use the boards/sleighs and then we had a practise go, then we moved round to the proper run and people started going down and i took some shots, some people braked alot(you use your feet) and some sped along, i was really nervous and breaked most of the way down and then got confident and got speed up and flipped and eat volcano.
On the way back we all chatted about our travels and stuff and when we got back the was a mojito waiting at the bar for us. which was great and one of the american guys bought me another and i minngled and chatted with the danish couple for a while and then this english guy charles who is from london and traveling with his Candian girlfriend, then i hung out with theçree american guys and the one who had hitched had a guitar and was playing funny songs i then went for a mojito and they had ran out so i had a rum and coke.
Eventually everyone tailed off to go out or head to bed, i had packed my stuff as i planned a 6 am start, i had packed eveerything including my ear plugs....really bad idea as i got hardly any sleep with noise feckers.
More piccys at http://picasaweb.google.com/MikeyMeggiato
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