Huck and Henna En Route

after our travel experiences at the Laguna de Apojo, with all its beauty and those few criminals, we were given the pleasure of exploring one of the most ugliest cities in the world. There is more beauty in Mangalore, India.
Well, it´s busy and loud and smelly and we walk around with allergic reactions and headache.
Today [...]

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Things happen, and  we have to coupe with those, good and bad.
So far we´ve been so lucky. People are wonderful here in Nicaragua, friendly and helpful. Most of the Nicas are always smiling, children with a slim figure and not much to eat, look happier than most of the spoiled kids in Finland.
But, some dirtbags [...]

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Well, as requested we showed up at the police station today to collect our report.
VERY surprisingly they told us to come back “mañana”. Great.
So we are still at the spanish school and use the time spreading notes of paper, promising US$300 for the person that gives us the informations that might lead to the bad [...]

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The last few days we spend here at the beautiful crater lake. We live in a scientific research station that also is a language school.
And yes, we followed our plans and took five days of spanish courses.
Classes started for us on the 22nd, and with a one day break (yesterday, 25th) our last schoolday will [...]

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Granada, 19.12.2007
what do you do when you travel?
Well, you see places, eat local delicousies and meet locals.
One rastafarian local picked up some stones when he saw us and we had a finally peaceful encounter with him.
Some other locals had a parade today and we saw them doing it.
locals with parade.
again we had some [...]

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After spending a night in Altagracia on Ometepe, we left the island yesterday (18.12.2007) with the first ferry at 6am, going back to San Jorge.
on the ferry to San Jorge and on the way to Granada
By bus and Jopo and more bus, we finally arrived around midday in Granada, the long time (but [...]

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… ever played the adventure game “monkey island”?
Well, here on Ometepe we found the real place. On the 13th already we took our Jopos for another rough ride on the island.
Ometepe is a wonderful place and since Henna got a bit of a “funny tummy” in the moment, we decided to stay a little longer [...]

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Costa Ricans are the Ticos. people in Nicaragua are the Nicas.
Well, now we are among the Nicas. For some reason we ended up in a super luxurious bus, going from San Jose to Managua.
We hopped off the bus shortly after the border crossing, on the Panamericana, in a little town called Rivas.
It was raining like [...]

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…infos, stories and pictures you can find looking into “stories”, “photos” (www.flickr.com/photos/hennahuck ) and also from the map.

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Again a little odysse.
  After enjoying some hammock hours by the beach in Dominical (no surfing for beginners today), we got on the bus to Quepos, where we changed into another bus and finally arrived in San Jose “CocaCola Terminal”.
Everything went very smooth, we rode our Jopos into town and had some food, before we found Hennas [...]

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