http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Nicaragua , Caribbean Nicaragua en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 13:25:13 +0000 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:25:13 +0000 We just completed an amazing trip to the Autonomous Region of Nicaragua. Staying at Lori39s Place in Bilwi we had comfortable accomodations and the most wonderful authentic fresh food. We took many trips into the communities in the Autonomous Region saw local festivals visited fishing ports and met some wonderful people. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Puerto-Cabezas/blog-705858.html Hola Amigos.You made me miss I39ve never missed that board before.Excerpt from the Slaughtered Lamb pub scene from classic 80s movie The American Werewolf In London.If anyone is familiar with this movie and how the two boys felt when they entered The Slaughtered Lamb then welcome to the jungle town of El Rama... Totally off the beaten tourist trail it would seem that this town sees litt http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-694114.html Last night I went scuba diving on my first night dive. As luck would have it the plankton was bioluminescent. This means that 50 feet below the surface when we turned off our underwater lights we were surrounded by natural lights in the form of glowing plankton. Imagine the brightest starry night you have ever experienced in your life out in the middle nowhere with no city lights and no moon http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-686451.html 1 always takes the payday loan in ones crisis because these can be found quickly and easily. However when you go to personally to take credit it consumes your lot of time and cash too. Now it can save you your money and time through payday loans online. These enable you to repay your immediate expenses like electrical power food unplanned expenses healthcare and so on without any delay.Thes http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Puerto-Cabezas/blog-677349.html To get to paradise you need a plane. Having seen the tiny plane we thought we39d be on we became excited only to be led to an even smaller one. Our twelve seater felt like sitting in a retro minibus in the sky. As we drew nearer paradise the sky darkened and the rain started. Despite this the views were interesting the tubulence was interesting the next part of our journey was interesting http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-665061.html The idyllic palmfringed Corn Islands are located over 70 kilometres off the eastern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Its a couple of full days hard yakka to travel overland or the easier option is to fly in as we did from Managua with a quick stop in Bluefields. After about five minutes of arriving on Little Corn Island we met one of the islands more notorious locals Ennis though he is c http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-662902.html BIG CORNIf possible spend all of your time at Little Corn. Stay on Big Corn only if you have late or early flights and stay at Club Paraiso. The rooms are good but not great built for a dry climate and not the islands so they smell like mold and don39t let the air through but I really enjoyed my time there. The owner is extremely knowledgeable about all the affairs of both islands and http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-633877.html K There has been a lot of rice in Nicaragua. One day I realized that we had eaten rice with every meal for six days including breakfast Gallo Pinto rice beans with eggs cheese and tortilla is a breakfast staple here. For variety I therefore ordered a dinner with mashed potatoes. They were great but were accompanied with a side of rice We remarked on this to our hotel owner in Ma http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-625319.html After the middle of the night reading session we both slept great. We woke up well rested. We both were wide awake around 6am. I think we39ve just been sleeping more than enough lately. We had breakfast with Ana the kids. Lola Surya were using my computer to play games they were teaching me things about how to use my computer. Pretty funny. After breakfast we packed up reorganized. We w http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-609178.html The pics A view of our shower from the front the path toward town a house along the path so many are made of metal 3 pics of the bay in front of town the path to Ensuenos along the beach me the beach in front of Ensuenos dinner table for us Us sitting out front before dinner enjoying our drinks Us at our dinner table Vegetables cheese for course one with our plantain chips lime b http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-609101.html Photos The first is of Rosa39s delicious breakfast the next few are from Little Corn Baseball the lady with the white bucket is the beer vendor the huts out back are the food vendors Photo 8 is the announcer with his bull horn the boat the baseball players are leaving on lastly Letitia putting my hair wrap in it39s basically colorful string wrappe around a chunk of my hair.This morn http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-609098.html Hi All Apparently Travelblog is updating their site there are still some kinks to work out. So for now I can39t add captions the photos. We39re just going to post the blogs anyway. We39ve put them in order of events during the day. For example today39s photos are of the daddy dog his baby girl pup playing our cabana Felipe working on my necklace Geoff on a palm tree us in our http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-608115.html I woke up this morning to another beautiful sunny day. It's warm breezy tropical I love it. We are spending another day doing as much of nothing as we can do. Sometimes that is just the best way to spend your time in our opinion anyway. Plus we are both on some sort of reading binge. I have already read 2 books I think Geoff is on his 3rd. Busy busy. The wind has picked up tonight the http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-608095.html Up early today to dive. This bed is so comfortable here the breeze is so cool I think I could sleep forever. The breeze just blows directly into our cabana straight through the room right off the sea. It keeps the bugs away provides for a pleasant nights sleep. And the sound of the waves crashing all night just lull you into deep sleep. I could stay forever. Really.This morning we said goo http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-607427.html Today we are taking a day off from all the work of diving. We need a day of rest. And we just want to chill enjoy the quiet beauty of Derek's Place. It is ridiculously peaceful beautiful here. This morning we had breakfast here at Derek's. It is super chill here. We had breakfast with Ana Derek's wife their kids Lola Surya. There is also Marc the kids tutor who just arrived from B http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-607190.html Woke up before alarm. Sooo sleepy still. Like I hadn't slept in weeks. My body is so tired from 5 dives in the last two days. It's amazing what a toll it takes on the cuerpo body. We packed up brought our bags to the main lodgerestaurant drank coffee ate Laki our fav cup of noodle but spicy hope I can find it at home paid our tab headed to the dive shop. We walked to the dive shop wher http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-607184.html We slept like babies last night. Sooo tired from 3 dives in one day. It really wears you out. I woke up spent some quality time on the deck staring at the sea. I had a delicious cup of coffee. Real coffee brewed not the instant stuff that has become a staple in our lives in the coffee center of the world. Oh well. It still does the trick. After Geoff was up we walked into town a bit early to http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-607148.html Sitting on our little deck typing early this morning just happened to look up through a wide gap between two palm trees where something very large just jumped out of the ocean. I don't have a clue what it was but it looked like a stingray. Is that possible It was pretty far out in the ocean but I saw it in the air. I wonder what it was. Unless there's some sort of rectangular looking fish out http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-607141.html My broken finger still hurts. I broke it in Guatemala around the 1st of February. Almost 2 months ago. Shesh. At least it doesn't hurt to brush my hair anymore but it's still sensitive. Little taps on things in just the right way I get shooting pains. And it looks really funny. I have this huge knob off the side of my finger now. I guess my dreams of hand modeling are shattered. In our taxi to t http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-606080.html I took a Panga speed boat to Peal Lagoon a town on the lagoon of the same name further North up the coast. Again it has a mix of mainly AfroCaribbean and Mestizo inhabitants. It has a much more laid back feel than Bluefields the people are very friendly and relaxed and greet us with alright in a strong Caribbean accent. English is the main language. I met Francis a Swiss lady and he http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Caribbean-Nicaragua/Bluefields/blog-511185.html