Blogs from San Juan del Sur, Southern Pacific Coast, Nicaragua, Central America Caribbean - page 19

Well, I found lobster! Lot's of it! Cheap! Didn't starve in San Juan del Sur! San Juan del Sur is a nice little beach town. However, it is a bit touristy relative to the other places I've been. I finally got to do a little bit of souviner shopping, although I really wasn't in the shopping mood. Had a bit of a tough time figuring out the bus schedule. I wanted to leave for Managua on Sunday afternoon, but the senorita at the desk said there were no buses to Managua on Sunday afternoons. I'd need to take a cab. Would cost $70. Hmmmm, I decided to go get more cheap lobster. On the way to lobster, I passed a cute nica guy I talked with briefly last night. He asked where I was going and ... read more

Nous avions decidé d'aller faire du kayak sur le lac avant de partir. Seul hic, nous avons remarqué après avoir payé notre nuit quíl ne nous restait qu'une dizaine de dollars, soit juste assez pour payer les transports jusqu'a Rivas, la ville la plus proche sur la cote, tout cela sans manger de la journée. Decu de ne pas pouvoir faire notre activité, nous en avons parlé a un ami américain qui nous a tout bonnement donné 200 cordobas. Nous sommes donc allé faire une expedition de kayak sur le lac a travers les vagues pour aller observer deux iles peuplees de singes, sans s'approcher trop près puisque ces singes mordent les visiteurs...Au retour, nous nous appretions a monter dans l'autobus lorsque nous aovns appris qu'il ne passerait pas...Comme si la marche de la veille n'etait ... read more

Well it was decided that since we were already at the northern end of Costa Rica and the buses here are so damn slow (they stop everywhere all the time), we thought we might as well pop our heads into Nicaragua and see whats going on...Other than a new president that the US frowns upon, Nicargua is a beautiful place of similar beauty to Costa Rica but with half the tourists and definately no big resorts and packaged holidays. As the second poorest country in Central America after Haiti, it is substantially cheaper than Costa Rica, yet boasts many of the same features of C.R., including the friendly people. If there has to be a downside to being less of a tourist destination, it would have to be the garbage strewn everywhere you look. But this ... read more

We left you a somewhere in San Pedro, Guatemala rght around the beginning of the "gringo trail". Normally we like trails, fun little adventures in the woods to get away people. Now it is one big adventure trying to avoid the trail. And so we find ourselves in Granada, Nicaragua...the jackpot of gringo-ville. We've broken some records, stories deserving to be told. One being our grandest collectivo ride. Transportion seems to bring us great entertainment. Coban, Gautemala (central highlands) to Lanquin, Gautemala (deep,central low-lands). 2 hours. 12 passenger Toyota mini-van, 23 people, 300 lb. driver, 1 man that urinated, 2 dead turkeys, and 24 pigs on top. Needless to say our final destination, Semuc Champey, priceless. We stayed at Las Marias on the shore of the Rio Cahabon. Up the river from us was a scene ... read more

We spent some time on the internet deciding where to go next. We had planned to go to the Corn Islands in the Caribbean, but had read some horror stories of people getting robbed and assaulted there. This was not too encouraging, so we scratched that place off our agenda. We shared a taxi with the Irish girls again and headed out to a beach north of San Juan, I believe it was called Marsella. We pretty much had the place to ourselves. There were some great rocky headlands to climb around and the white sand and clean surf were great. We planned to have lunch a the small restaurant on the beach, but it had closed by the time we got there. We wandered up the road to a small shack where they served us ... read more