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Waspam Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Waspam, Nicaragua
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dat Grim Reapa ain't gonna get me yet!
This is a top pick! ... been turning in his grave as history unfolded. The Corn Islands are situated 60 miles off the remote Carribean coast of Nicaragua. It's a two day bus/riverboat journey thru hellish jungle and mountain terrain, then a 9 hour ferry over ruff ...
Well,we wanted an adventure!
... literally "to sit oneself down," that has, due to some unfortunate naming coincidences, come to mean, in certain fashonable quarters of Nicaragua, one's derriere)) we arrive. We think. There's nothing there but a canoe. We dutifully get on, and off we ...
Caribbean Paradise
... we have Rustin´s. That was life in Little Corn, and we finally after 2 weeks there decided it was time to head to Leon, Nicaragua to enroll ourselves in Spanish School. So we flew from Big Corn Island on a tiny 12 seater plane into Managua, and ...
Des iles colombiennes au large du Nicaragua FR
... San Andres - et ce n'est pas parce que je m'étais planté dans mon estime! San Andres, île au large du Nicaragua mais d'appartenance colombienne, est décrite dans le guide comme le Hawaï des Colombiens. Même si cela semble moins pittoresque que ...
Chilling out in the Corn Islands
We flew from Managua to the Corn Islands a couple of days ago, this wasn't in our original plans but we decided we needed to chill out a little and the diving here is highly rated. Originally we decided we would be adventurous and take a night bus ...
Rafting the Rio Platino
Our one organised trip was a 13 day expedition in the jungle and rafting down the Rio Platino. We went with a company called Omega Tours who are based in La Ceiba. Our guide was Jeff, a wiry cornish man with 20 odd years of river and ...
Honduras and diving in the Bay islands
From BA I caught a flight to Miami where I had an 8hr lay over at 4am, until my flight for San Pedro Sula in Honduras. I finally arrived in Central America and my first taste was walking out of the airport in to sweltering 35 degree heat, I was ready to ...
I guess we were asking for it .....
... Oh yeah, and then on the odd occasion, threats that we wouldn't be allowed to board the plane as we supposedly hadn't entered Nicaragua properly! Grrr! But anyway, now that we are out of there and back into relative civilisation, I am very glad that I ...
Finally in Nicaragua...but still in La Moskitia
After crosing a river we came to Nicaragua!!! In Leimus we ahd to wait between pigs and dogs for a truck which would take us to Waspan, were we would try to take a car between 6 people to Puerto cabezas. As I was sat down with a dead mouse under me and ...
Nicaragua, grève générale et problème de passeport
... note Utila pour tes vacances!!! Pour les cartographes amateurs (Caroline), je suis retourné dans la Moskitia pour passer la frontière du Nicaragua. 1h30 de vol dans un petit coucou. Gabi, Caro, Vero, si vous ne voulez avoir peur en avion, vous montez ...
Meine Weihnachts- und Neujahrstage auf Providencia
Hoi zaeme Ich bin zurueck in Quito, deshalb kann ich meine Weiterreise wieder mal aktualisieren. Ich bin ueber die Festtage nach Providencia gereist. Die Insel liegt in der Karibik und gehoert zu Kolumbien, hat aber mit dem Land nichts am ...
The Caribbean Vibe
After some grueling travel across the country by bus and boat we have arrived to the Atlantic side of Nicaragua, which has a strong Caribbean influence. It is a mix of several different people, with Latino, Miskito natives and Creole brought here ...
Caribean Islands and Miskitos
We have spent the last few days here on the Caribean side of Nicaragua. From Bluefields we had a boat ride up the river about 50 miles to the peacuful little multiethnic town of Pearl Lagoon. It was fun to see Latinos, Creoles and Miskito ...
Cruising the Miskitu Communities
... I last wrote, amazing adventures, new phrases, new people, it is time to share! The past weekend, our group journeyed to Waspam, Nicaragua. This, my friends, is the heart of the Miskitia, where everything came from, the unnamed capital, the soul and life ...
La Moskitia
In La Ceiba we took a bus early in the morning to Tocoa. There, we took a 4x4 to Batalla. There was no place inside the cabin (lukily, I prefer not to think how hot had to be there inside, they were like thrre big people and somekids in a place made for ...
Mosquitia or Bust
... in the south, loggers stripping the rain forest of hardwoods, campesinos moving from the impoverished south and across the border from Nicaragua come to clear a little patch of land and farm it as they did in the south which results in the land becoming ...
Willing to come to the world I am used to
... . But...in the end we came to managua!! And from there we took a bus to Granada!! There are so many nice cities in Nicaragua that we missed...but we were quite fed up of traveling...it had been 3 days of just travel. In beautiful "roads" and funny boats ...
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