Blogs from San Juan del Sur, Southern Pacific Coast, Nicaragua, Central America Caribbean - page 7

Hi everyone, I am staying with a family again here in SJDS. There are many women in this large family and they speak fast, loud and often. So, unfortunately I don't get a lot of what they are saying. The food is great, though, and I have a large room and a private bath. For these hot, but deluxe accommodation I pay $80 for the week! And I will probably gain 5 pounds living there. I only have to walk about 5 blocks to the library and 5 blocks to the internet cafe. Also, I met a nice girl who teaches yoga 5 mornings each week and if I don't have to go out on the mobile library bus at 8 am I can take classes with her. The yoga is very basic and slow, but ... read more

Hi Everyone, I am in San Juan del Sur and on Friday and Saturday I began my work at the library. Today is Sunday and the library is closed. I will be back there tomorrow. For the first two days I stayed at a hostel but now I have arranged to stay with a very big family. I have a much nicer room than at the hostel with a private bath and 3 meals each day. This morning I had a natatamale which was homemade my Marta, the matriarch of the family. Now I have the problem with my photos worked out and will upload some photos of San Juan del Sur and will write more tomorrow when I can get free internet at the library. Dawn... read more

(by Seppe) 5/4 Ok, de grensovergang moest er van komen (Costa Rica begon een beetje duur te worden, dus op naar goedkopere oorden! Nicaragua), dus vroeg opgestaan (5u) om de eerste bus richting Nicaragua te nemen. Na half ingepakt te zijn besloten we toch al maar naar het buskantoor te gaan om als eerste een ticketje te bemachtigen...hadden we gehoopt toch... er stond al een lange rij mensen te wachten!! Dus de dag begon met wachten... Na het bemachtigen van ons ticket al spurtend terug naar onze "luxesuite" (marginaal kot) om onze zakken verder in te pakken en terug richting bus te lopen. Bus juist gehaald...propvol, uur (of langer) moeten rechtstaan, ons ergens in middle van nowhere laten afzetten (Chomez), lekker broodje gegeten waardoor aansluiting net gemist. Weer lang moeten wachten op volgende, verder gebust naar ... read more

Still in San Juan Del Sur...... we love it here. We have built ourselfs a little traveling family here. We are staying outside of Hostel Esperanza, right on the beach. The water is nice and cool here, so you never over heat. We have been to Playa Maderas a couple of times now (it's a 30 min car ride out there) But there are some pretty nice waves, and they are even nicer when you don't have to fight for them (it gets pretty crowded). Our RV can't make the journey because of the steep dirt roads out to the beach, so we have been relying on the shuttle, and our friend we found who drove down from Ontario (got there the same day as us) Jordan got well toasted the first day of surf.... even ... read more

Hola from Nicaragua, I have been down here for almost three months and I have to say this was the best idea I have ever thought up for myself! Right now I have exactly one week of work at Buena Vista Surf Camp left. I was going to head down to Costa Rica next Friday, but then I was told of a yearly music festival down on Yankee beach (a surf beach close to where I am now). So, being the music lover that I am I decided I will head south on Sunday or Monday after the festival. My original plan of travel was to head South on the Pacific side of Costa Rica stopping off at a few various surf beaches on my way to Panama. Then once in Panama I would head ... read more