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Since Cynthia had limited time, we decided that Costa Rica would wind up her portion of the trip with some relaxing beach time. Hearing some bad pollution stories of one of the most popular destination, Playa Tamarindo, we decided to make our way to Playa Samara. The trip from Nicaragua was a marvelous hodge-podge of [...]
We left Grenada on a chicken bus heading to Rivas – our ultimate goal: the dual volcanic island – Isla de Ometepe – on Lake Nicaragua – the largest lake in Central America. The great thing about being an obvious backpacker is you just need to orbit within a few-blocks of any possible bus station [...]
Leaving Tegucigalpa before dawn, we negotiated a taxi and headed the 5K out of the city to the Discua Litena bus terminal that would take us to the border of Nicaragua. Our ultimate destination was Leon. As painful as it was: being double-billed at the border ($3 each to exit Honduras, then $7 each to [...]
With a scheduled 4 AM departure to Honduras, we awoke at 3 AM (“the butt crack of dawn” per Dave) to await our scheduled 3:45 pickup. Of course the driver was a punctual Central American 45 minutes late. With a 4 hour drive ahead of us and a loud grating noise prohibiting any thoughts of [...]
Given the very shrewd advice of Hotel Don Pedro (a cheaper version of the LP recommended Casa D’Acuna, 1 block away), we left Coban at 8:30 AM by huffing it 15 minutes to the North Terminal to catch “Mario!”’s mini-bus to Uspantan. Bus Terminals are any open dirt area where vehicles can gather without blocking [...]
After 3 trips around Flores, (some to the same hotel twice) our mini-van finally left at 10 AM (an hour later) with 10 other tourists. At a gas station, a large steer hog tied in the bed of a pickup truck, complained by kicking violently when they put a cooler in with it. Guess they [...]