After the beach, we headed to the mountains again. Monteverde is another very tourist centred town. There are two national parks to walk through, a lot of zip lining and coffee/chocolate/sugar tours. We did all of them, starting on Rebeccas…
Costa Rica – Tamarindo
From the border with Nicaragua, we caught two local buses to Tamarindo. Also known as Tamagringo, due to it being full of American tourists (gringos to the locals). It’s a very American town, but has a excellent beginners surf beach.…
Nicaragua – San Juan del Sur
After climbing the volcano, we headed to the surf beach San Juan del Sur, where we did some swimming and watched the sunset. We did a trip to another good surf beach called Playa Maderas up the coast. There were some…
Nicaragua – Isla de Ometepe
Nicaragua has the largest lake in Central America, Lake Nicaragua. Ometepe is an island that consists of two volcanoes rising out of the lake. The biggest volcano, Concepción is 1,610 m high, and with a height of 1,394 m, Maderas is the…
Nicaragua – Granada
After Little Corn Island, we met our friend Wanda. She landed after a flight from London, in the capital city Managua. There isn’t much to do there, so we left the next morning and went to Granada, the old capital,…
Nicaragua – Little Corn Island
Beware – The following images may offend! On the Caribbean coast off Nicaragua is a small island called Little Corn. It is basically, pretty near to paradise. We stayed there for six nights. The images say it all. We had…
Guatemala – Antigua
Our last stop in Guatemala was Antigua. An old colonial town that used to be the capital, before a series of earthquakes destroyed it and the Spanish moved the capital in 1776 to Guatemala City. It’s a very nice town…
Guatemala – Lago de Atitlán
After our two weeks Spanish course, we needed a rest, so headed to a beautiful place called Lago de Atitlán (Lake Atitlan). We stayed in a nice bungalow on the slopes of a mountain with great views. There are three volcanoes on…
Guatemala – Guatemala City
Big tip for anyone travelling to Guatemala at Easter. Don’t go to Guatemala City. The whole place is basically shut for the weekend as its one of their main holidays. They call it Semana Santa and there are a lot…
Belize – Hopkins
After relaxing we headed to a place called Hopkins. It’s a very small town down the coast from Dangriga. Its pretty hard to get anywhere on public transport, so we hired a 4×4 with a friend called Dawn who we…