Sorry for abandoning my blog the past week. We have been sweating through Nicaragua and are now a group of 5 so it makes life a little more technical. Here is a quick breakdown of our travels....
- April 21st, we arrived in Granada and were welcomed with heat and beautiful colonial buildings. We took a horse carriage around the city and Julie showed us her old stomping grounds.
- April 22nd, Good Friday, we took a 30 minute shuttle to the most amazing crater lake, Laguna de Apoyo, at the top of a volcano. We kayaked, swam, jumped off docks, floated in innertubes, read on hammocks and played banana grams. It was excellent.
- April 23rd, we took a cab to an hour long ferry to another hour long cab to arrive at our secluded lodge on the island of Ometepe. We were thoroughly exhausted and spent the afternoon reading, walking along the beach and planning for our adventure the next day
- April 24th, we did an awesome tour of Ometepe island. Our guide, Luis ,was super hungover (why do we always get hungover guides) and we took a hike to a beauftiful and refreshing waterfall. We then drove to a nearby beach and kayaked to an island with monkeys (i didn't get out of the boat after learning how agressive monkeys can be in Thailand a few years ago!) and then we ended the day by going to a peaceful natural lagoon where we took underwater photos and got eaten alive by bugs!
- April 25th, we left Ometepe on the most overly crowded ferry I have ever taken (and I have been on some sketchy ferrys in my life). We then arrived at San Juan del Sur, an adorable surf town on the Pacific coast. We spent the afternoon splashing in the waves and coming to terms with the fact that it is well over 90 degrees and humid as shit and we have no AC
- April 26th, we had an awesome breakfast at a nearby cafe and bookstore and hopped on a shuttle to the nearby surf beach. We rented boards and took surf lessons from a nicaraguan surf diva. It was awesome! I had a lot of success and went back out in the waves on my own a bit later. we got back into San Juan del Sur annd were a bit sun stricken and exhausted. We had dinner at a cute restaurant nearby and quickly two members of our group had to go home from feeling sick. Long story very short, we were all up nearly all night with one girl violently ill, one with some sort of flu, three of us wildly overheated and all the electricity off (meaning no fans to even make a breeze). We awoke this morning ready to get to costa rica and to the air conditioning! We depart on a bus in 2 hours. more from CR!
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