Blogs from Central America Caribbean - page 1953

The internet is crap in Esteli. I have already wasted 18 minutes on a shitty connection. So this will be brief. Esteli is in the northern part of Nica. There were a lot of sandanistas here compared to Granada. Granada is more conservative (in our terminology - liberal in theirs, its complicated). Esteli is poorer and definately not as hip. But it is very interesting. The streets are lined with black and red sandanista flags. We stopped in the FSLN (Sandanista Frente) headquarters yesterday and got some of the black and red flags. they were gratis - free. today is the 17th year anniversary of the revolution. this morning we saw bus load after busload of people on their way to Managua for the celebration. Thjere is a big party/parade/etc in the main square there. we ... read more

Hello everyone! I am going to keep this message short because there are others waiting to get online. I just wanted share a few photos so look in that section. We went on an 8 km hike today through Grenville the nearest city here and down to the beach. There were kids with their moms playing cricket with scraps of wood and a tennis ball, goats tied near houses every where. Mangos, breadfruit, pears and coconuts hanging from most of the trees. It is hard to see that this land was very much devastated by Hurricane Ivan only a few years ago. There are definitely houses in a wreck but the people have worked hard on the rebuilding but the evidence still remains which testifies to the times. At the beach we met a little boy ... read more

... BETTER REMEMBER THIS ... You'd better remember this. Because people will ask you. Whether you want them to or not, they'll ask you how El Salvador was. And though you won't know where to start, you're going to have to have something to tell them. A shrug of the shoulders and "Good" won't be enough. So you'd better remember this. Open the parts of your mind you need, and work them over until you've gotten them just right. Then put what you know in a place that will be easy to get to. Deep, but not too deep. Just enough so that even though no one else can see it, you know it's there, and you can see it and feel it, and you know it makes up a part of who you are now, ... read more

hola amigos! i just logged on to post some pictures. hope you enjoy them. sunday we had a "school trip" to chichicastenango for the native mayan market. it is one of the largest markets in the mayan area. for more info visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichicastenango. it was a bit crazy...lots of people...lots of energy....lots of textiles and crafts. i enjoyed it, but i tend to get a bit suffocated in large crowds. it was a chilly day in chichi, so a few of us took a break from the crowd and sat in an open air coffee shop with warm beverages. i enjoyed the view of the market from this perspective. we were cozy and spacious in the coffee shop, yet the energy of the market was surrounding us. later on sunday night we played pub trivia...our group ... read more

Le volcan aujourd;hui c;etait vraiment beau. 3 super bus hight class pour y aller, non sans farce. Dans une westfalia arrange, on rentre facile 21-22 personnes... Dans l;autre qui etait un petit peu plus grosse est etait 28.. Le toit, lui, etait bourre de pneu. La derniere etait normal... 18 personnes, mais le chemin de terre pour s;y rendre meritait une attention particuliere. On a du monter par la cours arriere, pcq, il n;avait que des paysans, des cochons, des chevaux et des poules. La vue en montant est vraiment splendide, le lac en haut est presque vierge, il y a une maison non loin et une pompe pour prendre un peu d;eau. Ils ont installe un petit amphitheatre, des table a l;ombre, un semblant de terrain de volley et puis j;ai l;impression qu;ils ont abandonne, ... read more