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Today we slept in, went to the supermarket, got breakfast and lunch and just chilled on our balcony reading, chatting and watching the world go by. It has been lovely!! Off to San Jose tomorrow when the tour finishes. I can´t believe how quick time flies. ... read more

The day I had been looking forward to for a while!!! Heather, Amy, Kate, Aimee and myself had booked in for zip lining and suspension bridge walk through the cloud forest. We got picked up at 8.30, driven up into the cloud forest further. We were kitted up in harnesses and set off with 4 guides who attached, un-attached us to 12 zip lines, the longest being 600m where we went through cloud and had complete white out. Aimee went with a guide the entire time but still had fun. There was also a tarzan swing, which was great fun. And we got to see nature!!!! After the zip lines we wandered through the forest for 90 mins on the suspension bridge walk. It was beautiful but as a rain forest a little wet!!! We had ... read more

It was an early start so we could do the 3km hike not in the mid day sun. It took about 40 mins to drive to the volcanoe bottom. The other side of the Island was a lot carmer than the side we were staying on. The 1st km wasn´t too bad but the heat was picking up, the 2nd km almost killed me and so the 3rd km I walked really slowly. The joy of malaria tablets!!! It took 2 hours to get to the waterfall and as soon as I got there I swam under the waterfall. It was freezing but just what I needed!! The scenary was beautiful and the walk back down was a lot easier!!! Rob fell and cut his hand so it wasn´t without excitement. Thankfully it wasn´t too bad. ... read more

Had a lazy start again to the day and went to the Garden Cafe for breakfast with Aims and Carol. This place was so pretty and peaceful. We then did a tour to the Markets of Masaya and to the Masaya Volcano. The Markets were not nearly as impressive as ones we´d been to previosly and they weren´t letting us beat down the price! We went with Toucan, the group that Aimee should have been with. Was interesting!! We then went onto the National Park to see an active crater and an inactive one. There was lots of smoke!! The inactive crater was interesting as the grass had grown on half of ir but not the other where there must have been some gases coming out. We then went to a few caves, the first one ... read more

So day 2 of a 12 hour travel... So started with a taxi to the bus station, a bus to the border with a relatively painless crossing, and then 2 chicken buses. Thankfully it didn´t rain as our bags were on top of the 1st chicken bus. We stayed in Cocibolca which had a lovely courtyard, swimming pool and fountain with 3 turtles living in it! We got in latish, went to the tourist office to see what tours were available and then went to an Italian Don Peros for dinner. And crashed early as everyone was a little grumpy from the travel day!... read more