We decided to take the adventurous-sounding jeep-boat-jeep transfer to La Fortuna, our next destination, combining a trip through the mountains with a boat journey. In actuality, it was way less rugged than it sounded: microbus-boat-microbus, in fact, as it’s very popular these days. The mountain landscape is wonderful, though, resembling Switzerland, and even more so […]
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We’d heard terrible things about the border crossing between Nicaragua and Costa Rica: hours spent waiting to get into the correct queue, so on and so forth, so we were mentally prepared for the worst. One of the advantages, though, of travelling with a long-distance operator like Tica Bus is that they ease the crossing: […] We’re taking the public bus from Leon to Granada via Managua: we have to change at UCA, the terminal next to the University of Central America. On the first bus, we chat to a local guy who has a house in Los Angeles, and when we arrive we need to change to the express to […] So, we left Copan Ruinas by the Hedman Alas luxury bus service to San Pedro Sula (SPS), where we will stay overnight and then catch the 5am Tica Bus service to Leon, Nicaragua, a 12-hour journey. The trip to SPS was fine, though late, and we were met off the bus by our hostel owner, […] Well, we set off for Honduras by shuttle bus from Guatemala. This was scheduled to take about 6 hours, and “shuttle bus” is usually code for “a small, rather cramped minibus in a dubious state of repair”. And so it was: we all piled on, and arrived in Copan Ruinas, Honduras, seven and a half […] We’d been wanting a look at the Pacific Ocean before we left Guatemala, so we hopped the shuttle to Monterrico, a tiny little village on the coast. We fancied a few days of hammocks and sea, and this seemed to fit the bill. This being a volcanic area, the beaches are black, so when the […] No public holiday on 2nd January for the Guatemaltecans, so we were back to Spanish lessons. They started to get a bit more complicated as we progressed onto the varieties of the past tense. I went for a haircut, eek, not quite the same as at home but a quarter the price! We went with […] We’re back at a Spanish language school again, and to give their students’ brains a change from classroom learning, they organize activities where the teachers accompany the students out into the local community to practise Spanish and learn a bit about the local customs. We go along to a craft center in a nearby town […] Well, the diving in Belize, mostly on Lighthouse Reef, was very good: the reefs are in very good condition. We dived the Blue Hole, which I found a slight disappointment. It’s billed as being the dive of a lifetime, but when we were there the visibility wasn’t good, so there wasn’t much to see. We […] Hi, Diane again. No doubt Paul will resume more normal service in the near future when he gets his head above water for long enough. Not much chance of an internet connection down with those sharks! We got the overnight comfy ADO bus from Playa del Carmen (Mexico). After a snooze we arrived at […] |
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