It was time to leave Nicaragua and head down to Costa Rica. One of the vans taking us to the dock was a bit late, a sign of things to come. The trip to the dock was good, we passed heavy machinery starting to clean up some of the slips we had crossed on the […]
Day 40 : Ometepe
The obvious activities on Ometepe involve the volcanoes and taking the option to climb to the top. The wet recent weather meant that this would be tough, the taller Volc?n Conception was effectively closed to climbing because of the muddy slopes and it wasn’t recommended to climb the slightly shorter Volc?n Maderas either. I joined […]
Day 39 : Granada to Ometepe
The travel today would take us to the island of Ometepe situated on Lago de Nicaragua. Taxis were used to get us to the local bus depot and from here we caught a chicken bus for the hour or so ride down to San Jorge on the lake shore. The bus ride wasn’t too bad […]
Day 38 : Granada
Today we took a tour of the area around Granada, taking in a number of different towns and places along the way. We had breakfast at a waffle restaurant up near the Convento de San Francisco, joining Cecylia at her table. We all walked back to the tour office and joined up with the others […]
Day 37 : Granada
With two full days in Granda we took this as a slow day where we would spend little money and just wander around the town. Setting out mid morning we walked away from the Parque Central towards Lago de Nicaragua. The most interesting thing we saw was a game of little league, both teams in […]
Day 36 : Tegucigalpa to Granada
We left Honduras today and entered Nicaragua. This involved four different buses and two sets of taxis and went kind of like what follows. The group split on leaving the hotel, three taking the more expensive option of an air conditioned luxury bus all the way from Tegucigalpa to Granada, leaving by taxi to get […]
Day 35 : Utila to Tegucigalpa
Our Utila visit was capped off nicely in the morning. We were up and ready with our bags a little early and were actually able to see out to the mainland from the hotel top floor. This was good, the last thing we wanted was bad weather stopping the ferry from sailing. Downstairs there were […]
Day 34 : Utila
The weather this morning was rotten, heavy rain and more wind than the previous day. Needless to say the snorkelling was cancelled. We had a nice breakfast and spent most of the rest of the morning at the hotel reading, after first going for a short walk to the nearby public beach. There was a […]
Day 33 : Utila
Utila was disappointing so I won’t be writing a great deal about the place, you can tell I was uninspired by the lack of photos. Mainly this was due to the weather, it rained a lot over the two full days we had on the island. Our snorkelling trip was postponed because of the wind […]
Day 32 : Copan Ruinas to Utila
We boarded a bus just down the road from the hotel and spent about six hours on the road heading for La Ceiba. The city of La Ceiba was viewed in passing as we took taxis from the bus stop to the port where we would be catching a ferry over to the island of […]
Part III : Day 31 : Antiqua to Cop?n Ruinas
A 5am start for the new group heading across the border to Honduras and the town of Cop?n Ruinas. In addition to Pat and Miriam, Claire and Jenny, Matt, Angie, Keryn and myself we now have; Cecylia from Canada, Richard from England, Leah and Dylan from NZ, Peiter and Andreas from Sweden and Stephan from […]
Day 30 : Antiqua
It rained all night and continued as we got up for the 6am activity this morning. We were heading out to Volc?n de Pacaya, an active volcano an hours drive away. The group was taken out to our transport which turned out to be a large yellow bus, the extra room required for the other […]