Stories from our expedition to Central America
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2008
San José, 28.1.2008
Like a cat around the hot porridge we were tiptoeing around Sas José in the last days.
After we left La Fortuna (look at “stories”) yesterday morning by bus to San Ramon, we couldn´t decide where to go. We wanted to avoid the streams of tourits, that suddenly cover Costa Rica since we came [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2008
Like a white wall reaching up into the sky.
The view to the volcano Arenal is nothing but clouds. Some people come here for a week without ever seeing the main attraction.
I suspect the operators of tourist buisnesses to have fog machines installed on the slopes of Arenal, so that the paying guests will stay a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2008
La Fortuna, 25.01.2008
The volcano Arenal is active. Since 1968, the gigantic pimple is open.
Almost 40 years ago, it awoke with some leathal explosions and ever since, it has been active again. It is good to live near an active volcano, because you can be sure that the pressure is constantly released.
If Arenal would suddenly be [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2008
Since Orotina:
bus, ferry, hitchhiking, one night in Manzanillo, hitch hiking and now we are in Santa Teresa, a busy surfers beach on the otherwise beautiful peninsula de Nicoya.
Watching the surfers is pretty nice, and swimming in the waves as well, but being in a very US-like place (and dusty on top of that), is not [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2008
…during the time, when my brother was doing a volunteership in the area of Acosta, a canton south of San José. Before we left for our journey, he gave us a letter for the people he was staying with and that is why we were heading to Acosta, after we left San José yesterday.
We first [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2008
..waiting at the Texaco in Esteli, we are melting in the sun. We meet a french couple, cycling down the panamericana with their weird tandem bike, where one is sitting forward and the other one backwords.
This was about all the excitement of the day, since we were mostely sitting in the bus. We had to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2008
17.1.2008, Esteli
The last day in Esteli and the last full day in Nicaragua, for who knows how long. We certainly liked and enjoyed Nicaragua and intend to come back.
Like so often when travelling I want to come back one day, but here we are pretty serious about it.
Today we booked a bus-journey from Esteli to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2008
..with the locals in the Natural Reserve Miraflor were a great experience. I´ll write a bit more in “stories”.
Now we are back in Esteli and so far haven´t decided yet, if we are going to stay in the area a bit longer, or if we are going somewheer else…
Let´s see.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2008
..we read about the Nature reserve Miraflor in our guidebook and we also read about a local organisation, called UCA, organising and supporting ecotourism and sustainable farming in local comunities in the area of Miraflor.
So we went to Esteli, near Miraflor (not to Matagalpa), where we found a relativly quiet city on the Panamericana.
Esteli is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2008
we woke up early today and after realising that I got a bit of a funny tummy (1st time!), I prepared myself for the flight back to Managua with a strong anti-sh..-pill.
Well, it worked and we had a pleasent flight, landing after the second attempt savely in the capital.
the main reason for us coming back [...]