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- Managua
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- Cordoba Oro (NIO)
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San Juan del Sur Slideshow
Travel Blogs from San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua
Getting to San Juan del Sur
... them went by quickly and with night coming, we decided to head towards the Pacific and find a good place to camp. We stopped in San Juan del Sur and met a German guy who recommended we go to Playa Madera, about 8 Km up a dirt road. We did that but ...
Surfing!
... my fears of natural water, swimming and getting my face wet. I want to stay here and work on my technique! But I fly from San Jose to Peru on Sunday and I wanted to see some of Costa Rica on the way down. Decisions, decisions... Speaking of Peru, my ...
Skandinavien
Idag har jag läxat upp en finska som hävdade att Finland var en del av Skandinavien. Vet hut finne! Är också tillbaka i San Juan del sur och kommer nog vara här tills jag är frisk. Nån gång efter jul, hoppas jag. Är också ytterst besviken på ...
Surf Village and Nat Geo Experience
... this incredible ancient creature nesting or hatching on the shore of this beautiful wildlife reserve, located 22 km south of San Juan del Sur.Casa Oro is deeply involved with the preservation efforts and research of the Olive Ridley sea turtles. In 2008 ...
Horseshoe-Shaped Bay
... the island, we worked out a deal with 6 other people to hire a van to take all of us to our next location "San Juan Del Sur", about an 1-1/2 drive. Set on a horseshoe-shaped bay framed by picturesque cliffs (see pictures below), the town has ...
to San Juan del Sur
... dat beestje, en na deze eenvoudige maar smakelijke maaltijd kruipen we voldaan onder de lakens. english Not long ago San Juan del Sur was a small, quiet fishermen village. The perfectly shaped bay and beautiful neighboring beaches have made San Juan del ...
Surfing and salsa in San Juan Del Sur!
Our final destination in Nicaragua was San Juan Del Sur, a small town on the Pacific Ocean near the Costa Rican border. The actual town is on a little bay so there is really not much surfing there, but the better surf beaches are mostly a bit north and ...
Mi cumpleaños!!
... just spent 6 months in South America including Christmas in Antarctic which just sounded mind-blowing. Chicken bussed it down to San Juan del Sur, surf town on the Pacific coast the morning of my bday. Poor Dave under mad pressure to sort out the ...
Gal Pals in Rivas !
The original plan this morning was to hop on the 9:30 chicken bus to Rivas, however Eunice volunteered to drive, so........the chicken bus will have to wait. We all met in front of BWD's at 9:00 am, then headed off to Rivas (about 15 minutes north) It's ...
Pacific coast
After a ten hour journey from Costa Rica, we arrived at the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua, in the colourful little town San Juan del Sur. Nicaragua I like a lot so far, not as touristique as Costa Rica, much cheaper, nice people, basic and natural somehow. ...
Getting Better in Surfing at Maderas Beach
... akci, takze dopoledne bylo rozjezdove. ;) Dnes stravime posledni noc v Nikarague a zitra jedem smer Kostarika. Pro zmenu na plaz Playa del Coco. ;) Dnes zadne fotky, ale muzete si predstavit, ze si to tu uzivame. Doufam, ze se mate take krasne prese ...
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua
Sorry, Czech translation only for now, EN will come later San Juan del Sur je místo pro milovníky moře, dlouhé krásné písčité pláže na samotném jihu Nikaragui nabízí super relax anebo i aktivní vyžití, zejména surfing, ...
Nicarague here we come!
Hoi hoi! Vandaag hebben we het meer toeristische Costa Rica achter ons gelaten. Na een vermoeiende busreis waarin we, geperst tussen locals als sardinen in een blik 3 uur hebben rechtgestaan, zijn we aangekomen in een gezellig strand stadje geliefd ...
Dreamcatcher Eco-Surf House
The last 2 weeks have been spent staying at The Dreamcatcher Surfhouse. Whilst there has been a fair bit of construction going on, we've had a really good relaxing time and are loving not having to pack and repack our bags for the first time in almost 8 ...
Riding that magic yoga mat in the sky!
... . We're looking forward to hitting the road again to backpack on February 1st we leave El Camino Del Sol to visit a few more places in Nicaragua before heading north to El Salvador. On March 2nd we fly from San Pedro Sula, Honduras ...
Back to the west coast- San Juan Del Sur
We are on the SW coast of Nicaragua. It is hot and humid. We stayed here for 5 days and enjoyed each and every one of them. Nice beach resort with some upscale restaurants up the hill from the beach. The better places have better food. It was fun to have ...
Big Waves.
... Wildlife Reguge), a very significant nesting spot for Olive Ridley Turtles. Anyway, we had to pay this morning and the lady at Casa del Oro (the hotel that offers the trips) didn´t know how to use the incredibly old credit card machine. Yes, it was ...
San Juan del Sur
... 't miss a branch, cos the poor bugger will hang himself!! Got ourselves the good ole chickin bus from Rivas to San Juan del Sur (US$0.50c) Once again, we found ourseleves wandering the streets with our backpacks looking for decent accommodation. We ...
Surf, Sun, Sand (& security escorts to the beach)
San Juan Del Sur... Where do we start! San Juan is a small town located on the Pacific Ocean in Southern Nicaragua (around 45 minutes to the Costa Rican border). We took a private shuttle from Granada with a lovely Canadian/English couple we had met, ...
Nipping up to Nicaragua
... cafe on Ometepe (run by a nice Brit) to head off the island and across to the Pacific coastline and the beach resort of San Juan del Sur. We realised, to our surprise that the whole way up from Ushuaia we had only been on the Pacific coast once in Arica, ...
The Winds of Change........
... large in the distance................. There is a grouping of 30 of these huge wind turbines a few miles south of San Juan del Sur. This particular group has been there since 2009, and the company name is Suzlon. They have wind farms all over ...
Surfin' Nicaragua
Hallå! Jag har nu äntligen hittat över gränsen till Nicaragua, och mer bestämt San juan del sur. På schemat står surfing, surfing och surfing. Tyvärr tacklade min i vanliga fall fenomenala kropp den senaste veckans påfrestningar dåligt. Så ...
Nicaragua here we come!
Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday!! Spending my birthday at the beach was an inspired decision and spending it here was amazing luck. I had the best time, with 2 celebrations!! The evening before my birthday Lianne came running up ...
The Bride of Frankenstein......
... make an additional 6-8 visits in order to finish the work, but it will be so worth it in the end. We are still here in Nicaragua for another 5 weeks......so plenty of time to do everything else we came here to do! One of the places we like to visit near ...
San Juan del Sur
San Juan del Sur is a small surfing community on the Pacific Coast, near the Costa Rican border. It is the type of place where guys don´t wear shirts but they don´t need to because they are tan and ripped and waxing their surfboards on the ...
Leon, San Juan Del Sur, Playa Maderas, and Popoyo
... like halloween. Quite the experience to witness!! December 8th we headed to Managua, back en route to our original destination of San Juan Del Sur. We spent 2 nights in San Juan Del Sur, just enough time to find out where to go for good ...
Nicaragua Here We Go
... in San Juan del Sur. The sun was shining brighter than we have seen for days. The landscape here is beautiful. San Juan del Sur is a small beach town where many tourists go for fun and sun. Our main objective was to see Oliver Ridley ...
NO ELECTRICITY = NO INTERNET!!!
I'm back!!! We have been experiencing some major power outages here in SJdS, and Ross and I have been without power for almost 72 hours!! It is good to finally have water and electricity again :-) It is quite a bit different this time of year, as opposed ...
Time to wrap this up!!!
... !! I had to share this final ride because it was my 10th time, and I wanted to make sure that if you travel to San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua you MUST go horseback riding on the beach with Blue and Jamie!!! You will not be disappointed!! Thanks again to ...