Monday, 26 September 2011

Welcome to the Pacific!! viva the great waves and the great surfers

21-28 August

+ After a large dose of volcanos, lakes, hikings and colonial cities, it was a good time to visit the see; this time the pacific ocean which we did not visit in Mexico (and would had really liked to do).
+ The pacific ocean was nicer than expected. Warm water, a bit of palms and great waves for the professional surfers :)
+ We stayed at a Hostel in San Juan del Sur were we met a lot of cool people from everywhere. We also met the israeli friends we had been with before in Guatemala and Honduras; they were staying at the same hostel: What a coincidence!!Actually, how it happened is the following: When arriving on sunday morning to check in, we see one of this guys (Ben) lost in traslation with one of the hostal staff trying to get some water for his gigantic hangover!! actually, we had to give him the money because he didn´t have.  

+ We were there for one week going everyday to different beaches and enjoying the cool evenings at the sea side. It was really hard to leave such a nice place.

The Town and our favorite place to eat: Cheap and greasy tacos and burritos





The beaches and the... Professionals

























The good parties with friends, the unbeatable happy hour (basically free drinks during 3hours) and the killing "ring of fire" card game















+ During the last days of our days in San Juan, there was a Surf competition. We got good pics but they didn´t allow us to surf :( 









Friday, 23 September 2011

Chill-out on Isla de Ometepe

+ From Granada we took a nice local bus to the harbour town form where to take the ferry to the biggest island on the Nicaragua lake, Ilsa de Ometepe. The bus was pretty full and it reminded us a bit to the Lao buses adventures... When we arrived to the harbour an important game was on (Madrid-Barca) and we had to take the latest ferry, but the views were still amazing of the two volcanos that are on the island.


 



+ The second day on the island we went to Santo Domingo, which has a real beach. Even though when we were there the lake was quite high and most of the beach was covered, it was still very nice.








+ The active parts of a day we spent having walks, riding a bike, visiting a lake inside the island, swimming, checking some archelogical site that no one could explain to us from when and which culture it was from... The sunsets were beautiful, with impressive thunder storms every night. We planned to climb one of the volcanos, but due to a stupid guide who kept on postponing the climb to the next day, we didn't do it in the end... What a pity...











Dani´s jumps