Nicaragua!
I should really have updated this a little bit more often, but I was having simply too much fun to do so!
Nicaragua has been a great country to travel through. Lulu and I came across the border from CR and went straight to a small, thriving beach community called San Juan del Sur. We lazed around there for about 4 days and got a few of the great shots you see of children and doors on the flickr site. Click the link above to get more details.
From SJdS we traveled to Ometepe. This is the big, volcanic island in Lake Nicaragua. We had a good time there and one day we really kicked our asses hiking up Vulcan Maderas. It took us about 10 hours and I was sweating, cramping, dehydrated, unhappy and slow going for most of the way up it. And when we got there... we were rewarded w- a view of... drumroll, please... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! Clouds had rolled in and blocked our view of the supposed lagoon that was in the crater. Well, it was good exercise, anyway.
From Ometepe we went to the absolute highlight of our Nicaragua experience: Granada! We stayed in that oh-so-charming city for about a week all told. We were in a really nice hostel w- a verrrrrry grooovy vibe and met a lot of other travelers and we just hung out and took photos and relaxed and enjoyed getting to know the place. The ULTIMATE highlight of Granada, though, was the Laguna Apoyo. We stayed in a placed called The Monkey Hut which is owned by the hostel in Granada we were staying in, The Bearded Monkey, which is right on the water, w- a pier and a floating dock, kayaks, tubes and a very cool, chilled out environment. I was in heaven. I liked it so much I went back a few days later to chill out a couple more days while Lulu carried on to Leon.
I caught up to Lulu in Leon just in time to bring in her birthday w- a good party! Rum and good music was abundant and there was LOTS of dancing! We partied at a place called Don Señor´s until the wee hours of the morning until we were just too tired to carry on dancing so we sprinted home in the rain and arrived back at the hostel soaking wet. No matter how fast you run the rain always seems to catch you.
We´re now poised to jump over the border to Honduras/El Salvador in a decent sized, friendly, sort of boring city called Estelli. We went hiking in a park near here today and, really, it is not so remarkable.
Some of the very interesting things I´ve noticed while here are some of the highly backwards marketing tactics deployed by stores - something straight out of 1950s. We´re talking an old man, an old woman, an old car and a fucking LOUD set of old speakers on the roof blaring "Come and shop at blah-di-blah... the cheapest prices in town!!!" It annoys the pants off of me. It´s hyper loud, over obnoxious and, as far as I can tell, utterly ineffective. But who can say? I hope those speakers burn out soon, though. I´m really tired of seeing those people in every town we´re in.
Nicaragua has been a great country to travel through. Lulu and I came across the border from CR and went straight to a small, thriving beach community called San Juan del Sur. We lazed around there for about 4 days and got a few of the great shots you see of children and doors on the flickr site. Click the link above to get more details.
From SJdS we traveled to Ometepe. This is the big, volcanic island in Lake Nicaragua. We had a good time there and one day we really kicked our asses hiking up Vulcan Maderas. It took us about 10 hours and I was sweating, cramping, dehydrated, unhappy and slow going for most of the way up it. And when we got there... we were rewarded w- a view of... drumroll, please... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! Clouds had rolled in and blocked our view of the supposed lagoon that was in the crater. Well, it was good exercise, anyway.
From Ometepe we went to the absolute highlight of our Nicaragua experience: Granada! We stayed in that oh-so-charming city for about a week all told. We were in a really nice hostel w- a verrrrrry grooovy vibe and met a lot of other travelers and we just hung out and took photos and relaxed and enjoyed getting to know the place. The ULTIMATE highlight of Granada, though, was the Laguna Apoyo. We stayed in a placed called The Monkey Hut which is owned by the hostel in Granada we were staying in, The Bearded Monkey, which is right on the water, w- a pier and a floating dock, kayaks, tubes and a very cool, chilled out environment. I was in heaven. I liked it so much I went back a few days later to chill out a couple more days while Lulu carried on to Leon.
I caught up to Lulu in Leon just in time to bring in her birthday w- a good party! Rum and good music was abundant and there was LOTS of dancing! We partied at a place called Don Señor´s until the wee hours of the morning until we were just too tired to carry on dancing so we sprinted home in the rain and arrived back at the hostel soaking wet. No matter how fast you run the rain always seems to catch you.
We´re now poised to jump over the border to Honduras/El Salvador in a decent sized, friendly, sort of boring city called Estelli. We went hiking in a park near here today and, really, it is not so remarkable.
Some of the very interesting things I´ve noticed while here are some of the highly backwards marketing tactics deployed by stores - something straight out of 1950s. We´re talking an old man, an old woman, an old car and a fucking LOUD set of old speakers on the roof blaring "Come and shop at blah-di-blah... the cheapest prices in town!!!" It annoys the pants off of me. It´s hyper loud, over obnoxious and, as far as I can tell, utterly ineffective. But who can say? I hope those speakers burn out soon, though. I´m really tired of seeing those people in every town we´re in.
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