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By sp
August 25th 2006
August 25th 2006
life is good.....
Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Isla de Ometepe » Santo Domingo
today i am relaxing. i just spent two hours on the beach...reading, swimming, listening to my IPOD, watching the birds, listening to the howler monkeys and just chilling. my knees are a little sore today from yesterdays climb up volcan maderas. it took us 7 hours, round trip, to climb the volcano. johan and i started at 11:30 and the weather at the bottom of the volcano was hot and humid. but as we ascended it started to rain and become cool. it was the most difficult volcano ascension experience that i have had so far, mostly because the water was [View Full Entry]
By sp
August 23rd 2006
August 23rd 2006
travel blog disclaimer
Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Isla de Ometepe » Santo Domingo
i created this travel blog as a way to share my travel experiences with my friends and family...those people who know me well and know my personal nuances and ways of expressing myself. since this travel blog is public, others are able to view it...others who do not know me and some have taken offense to some of the things i have written. so i would like to make a few disclaimers for those strangers who are reading my travel blogs: -my spelling is not perfect...i am writing these travel blogs on a very tight schedule....i might only have a few [View Full Entry]
sp - sue p | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 4 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=83895] | 2006-08-23 15:49:17
it has been an amazing two days. yesterday was the final day of fiestas augustinas in granada. granada feels like an authentic central american town....untainted by tourists. and it was quite the treat to be here for this unique celebration. ilsa, johan and i joined the celebrations for most of the day...from 10am until around 9pm. the city was full of energy and people and beer and rum and horses. there was a parade of horses that went on for hours....it seemed to be some sort of skill competition. the horses would do a prancy dance and scoot sideways. (sorry for [View Full Entry]
sp - sue p | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 3 Comment(s) | 18 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=83538] | 2006-08-22 04:58:36
hola. i arrived in nicaragua last night after two days of travel, including a day in el salvador. i stayed in zona rosa in el salvador. it was hard to imagine that this country had just ended a civil war less than 15 years ago. san salvador was so modern and the roads were the best i have seen in central america. they actually had elevated roadways which was the first time i had seen these during my travels. the clubs were modern....reminding me a bit of the clubs in miami. full of beautiful, rich, young people. eastern el salvador was [View Full Entry]
sp - sue p | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=83199] | 2006-08-20 14:51:13
To say Its been a rough couple of days to would be an understatement, ever since we arrived in Nicaragua we have drank, ALOT. Its so cheap here, even cheaper then in Honduras. Really haven't d one to much in the last few days. got here in Granada after a really easy few hours of traveling in a compact mini van and communicating with a Nica couple as the wife breast fed her baby, pretty weird. Checked into a hostel that let us put all of our drinks food misc on a tab so it got pretty scary. We tried for [View Full Entry]
WildcatMike - Mike Reid | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=82702] | 2006-08-18 03:57:47
hello everyone, its been a rough couple of days with a few good ones in between. we left from utila and decided to go to copan (also in Honduras) to check out some more ruins. these ones were a lot different then at tikal, the area was a lot more cleared and all and all more to see but definitely not as cool. i was really glad that we went there though. We rode on a hedman alas bus which if anyone ever goes to Honduras then you should checkout since its got a/c and movies so its totally worth not [View Full Entry]
WildcatMike - Mike Reid | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=81552] | 2006-08-12 22:34:56
By GeoffHardy
August 9th 2006
August 9th 2006
Another lazy day at the lake
Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Laguna de Apoyo
We went for a walk down the road in the morning - there wasn´t a lot too see as this is a pretty quiet area. The rest of the day was spent reading, relaxing, swimming and kayaking in the lake. After dinner, we headed down for a swim under the full moon. Night-time at the lake we generally quiet... until a mango falls out of the tree and hits the roof, which sounds like a bomb going off. This happens numerous times throughout the night. [View Full Entry]
GeoffHardy - Geoff Hardy | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=80882] | 2006-08-10 16:08:39
By GeoffHardy
August 8th 2006
August 8th 2006
The cleanest water in Nicaragua
Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Laguna de Apoyo
We caught a taxi out to the Craters Edge, a guest house on the edge of Laguna de Apoyo. The laguna is a lake in a deep volcanic crater, and it is billed as having the cleanest water in Nicaragua. It was very clean (a nice change after swimming in Lagos Nicaragua) and a nice temperature to swim in. We spent the rest of the day relaxing by the lake in hammocks and taking the occaisional dip. [View Full Entry]
GeoffHardy - Geoff Hardy | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=80881] | 2006-08-10 16:08:10
In the morning we caught a bus out to Masaya, a town not far from Granada. They have a couple of marketplaces there. The first one we went to is the "new" market, which is the one that all of the locals go to. It has rows and rows of small stalls with vendors selling just about anything imaginable, including stuffed frogs in compromising poses. The parts of the market selling food were the most interesting, with people selling meat that was sitting out in the sun with flies on it, piles of fresh fruit and people serving up food from [View Full Entry]
GeoffHardy - Geoff Hardy | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=80879] | 2006-08-10 16:07:54
I am now back in New Mexico. I came back a little earlier than planned (for several reasons) - Aug 4 rather than Aug 12. I am currently enduring the culture shock of being back in the United States. To summarize: I had a fabulous time in Nicaragua. Sorry there weren't more postings while I was there - but I was pretty busy and the internet isn't incredibly fast there - so uploading pictures could be a trial of patience. I learned so much in Nica. I talked to everyone I could about politics - the revolution, the contra war, the [View Full Entry]
pandora - Jennifer | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 9 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=80425] | 2006-08-08 20:53:37