Blogs from San Juan del Sur, Southern Pacific Coast, Nicaragua, Central America Caribbean - page 4

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22.8. San Juan del Sur Die Fähre „Che Guevarra“ legte um 11 Uhr ab und brachte uns wieder an das Ufer nach San Jorge. Von dort brachte uns ein Taxi nach San Juan del Sur, DEM Stützpunkt fürs Baden und Surfen an der Pazifikküste Nicaraguas. Die Fahrt war kurz und binnen einer knappen Stunde sind wir bereits in der Küstenstadt. Da der Strand hier allerdings nicht schön ist, haben wir uns eine „Ecolodge“ 9 km nördlich von San Juan del Sur gebucht. Die Fahrzeit hierher war allerdings mit einer halben Stunde relativ lang, aber die asphaltierten Straßen hören hier kurz hinter der Stadt auf. Unsere Unterkunft ist wirklich sehr schön(mit Pool) und liegt genau zwischen zwei wunderschönen Stränden. Playa „Madera“ –das Surferparadies (wir denken oft an Fabsi) und Playa „Marsella“, eine ruhige Bucht zum Schwimmen. Traumhaft! ... read more
San Juan del Sur
Playa Madera
Casa Madera


The first day on Ometepe, I rented a kayak for the day and kayaked to San Ramon. From there, it's about a 4km hike to San Ramon waterfall. A 60 meter waterfall halfway up the volcano with the water coming out of the crater-lake made from rain water. It was pretty awesome to shower in the waterfall after a long hike! Later that day we kayaked to the isthmus connecting the two volcanoes. It's a very shallow swamp and the only way to access it is via kayak. There were numerous species of birds and monkeys around the swamp. After 2 days on the island, I left the hostel and walked to Oje de Agua (natural springs) about 4 hours away from the hostel. The walk was amazing and I hitchhiked on the back of a ... read more
Hike to the waterfall
San Ramon waterfall
A quick shower before the hike down


We are delighted to report we survived "Becky 38". As I write this Becky is curled up in bed licking her wounds from a big birthday evening, but more on that later. The days have begun to melt together after seven weeks on the road. Although I may not be in the clearest mental state as I write this, I will do my best to accurately bring you all up to date on our adventures over the past three weeks. In departing Nueva Arenal we discovered we had made a slight error in trying to get to our next destination, Los Chiles, on the Costa Rican/Nicaraguan frontier. We ended up having to back track South to La Fortuna to get on a road that heads North. This ended up being a 4 different bus event that ... read more
Julio y Tarpon
Los Chiles
Merida Fishing Guide


It's the diversity throughout Nicaragua that slows your progress. Fortunately so since Nicaragua is a country to take slowly. We entered from Honduras at Las Manos, paying our $12 entry visa at the dusty border crossing jammed packed with waiting cargo trucks. After acquiring Cordobas from the persistent but polite money changers, we were directed to a departing chicken bus headed to the highland city of Esteli about two hours away. Cool and comfortable, Esteli is a busy agricultural town that we found to have really tasty hamburgers in its Central Park. For about a buck and half, you could have a burger bigger and better than a Big Mac. Two trucks in the fashion of taco trucks competed for business. Having our fill of beans, rice and platanos, we tried them both. The best being ... read more
Mending Nets
Volcano Concepcion on Ometepe
$12 Total for 2 Tilapia


Excerpts from last year's trip to Nicaragua. Operation: Nicaragua, Day 1 We made it! And we are completely giddy about it! We rolled into the airport in Managua with absolutely no idea how we were going to get to San Juan del Sur. Tammy was prepared to haggle with the taxi drivers, but we settled with a shuttle bus to take us directly to SJDS, but not without first buying a celebratory bottle of wine! Paxeos, the bus company was the Best. Idea. EVER! we met a friendly young man, Louis, who was sharing the shuttle with us and he entertained us for a good while on the drive. The ride became even better when we dropped him off and picked up the driver's family in a gas station parking lot! His wife and 16yr old ... read more
Ometepe
Sunset
Tammy & I


Wow. We are finally back to our blog after almost four years of no travels. It has felt amazing to be back on the road again, even if this trip is only six weeks and not eight months like the last, and each day inspires us to keep traveling. We arrived in Managua, Nicaragua on the night of December 27thafter a smooth and relatively short flight from San Diego to Houston and then Houston to Managua. We had pre-booked our hotel in Managua since we knew we would be arriving so late and they even picked us up at the airport (what luxury!). Our driver, Gerrison, was our first introduction to the incredibly amazing friendliness of the Nicas (Nicaraguans) as he happily practiced our Spanish with us while detailing the highlights of Nicaragua. After a quick ... read more
Managua
Tarzan
Granada's plaza mayor


Life became more adventurous yesterday. To get to San Juan Del Sur (a port, beach town on the Pacific Ocean), we chose to take a bus via Rivas and a new bus into San Juan Del Sur. We left Granada via a walk through the chaotic market to get to the bus station. Upon arriving, we were pulled and yanked by dozens of people saying, "Rivas." They all knew our destination as it seems many backpackers travel this route. Thankfully, the chicken bus to Rivas was fairly empty when we arrived so we were able to keep our packs with us inside of the bus as opposed to on top of it. Vendors came on the bus to sell various food and beverage items. The bus quickly filled up with locals and a few other backpackers. ... read more
Rivas Bus Stop - AKA Zoo!
It's 5!
Sun's Down - Surf's Up


Answer to my brother... J'ai lu ton mail avec un grand sourire. C'est beau de voir que tu t'en mets plein la tête. Ca me fait chaud au cœur, parce que si y a bien quelque chose que je peux comprendre c'est cette envie de bouger, de connaitre, de se connaitre, de voyager et de voir du pays. Les plaisirs simples de la vie. Redevenir l'enfant curieux de tout, qui doit réapprendre a communiquer, a se mettre en contact avec ce qui l'entoure, que ce soit la nature ou les gens. Tes projets sont merveilleux, je pense que ca peut être que BoNNN. En Amérique latine, il faut aller } EN COLOMBIE. C'est clair et net. Le Chili et l'Argentine. La Patagonie. Enfin, je te dis. Le plus dur quand tu voyages, c'est que tu te ... read more


Two weeks in Nicaragua - Granada, Isla de Ometepe and San Juan del Sur.... read more
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'Not the friendliest of places' Ben, July 2011 Ben, TJ, Andy and I arrived in Granada, Nicuragua, after a rather long 10 hour bus journey with cheeky cab action on top. The bus journey was fine because there was so much room so we lucked out in that respect. We stayed at the Bearded Monkey Hostel which was naff but convenient in terms of getting to the centre of town. Granada is an old pirate town but, other than some interesting colonial architecture, theres little of interest there. Once we had established this, we decided to do what any respectable group of men would do and headed out to the nearest drinking hole. TJ bought a lovely cigar and Ben mixed his own Cuba libres. These were the good times. We toasted ourselves on the smoothness ... read more
Hostel stalwart, Dylana's dog, Zion
Wierd illuminati stuff at Granada
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