Charco Verde Isla de Ometepe

... a chance to see snakes & monkies - sadly the guide's idea of on the way meant a 2 hour+ jungle trek, then with the 40 minute walk to the waterfall path I was already tired. Then it was supposedly 3kms to the falls but having done 2 seriously uphill k's to a good viewpoint I could see there was significantly more than 1km to go, especially annoying as steep downhill first followed by sheer vertical to the falls. The guide had described the whole walk as easy - guess ...

... sat down and started to discuss the game plan. We were still relatively enthusiastic about doing the hike up the volcano and arranged for a guide to take us up the mountain the next day (meeting time 430am). However, as the day and then night went on and the millions of tiny little sand bugs came out after dark and after we were asked to leave the hotel bar at 9pm because they were shutting down we decided that we were going to leave Ometepe first thing in the ...

... walking upright. I didnt know if I was going to be able to do it. The volcano suddenly looked a lot bigger and higher and the crater looked further away. I started talking aloud to Gordon. "Come on help your sister out here" I mumbled over and over again, grasping at rocks with my fingers, my legs aching from hauling up my body, sweat pouring down my body in rivulets. Alan was behind me, he slipped a bit but righted himself. I felt like I was climbing a massive mountain but ...

... affront to the senses when they blared the music at unbelievable volumes in the bar/restaurant/common area from about eight o'clock onwards every night. You could barely even speak to one another it was so loud, and the whole scene was just silly really, with Morgan and his Nicaraguan friend/worker/partner/whatever-he-was leppin around the bar to the thumping beats of the Prodigy while everyone else sipped quietly on their beers. Its amazing the difference one ...

... of it. The beach is gourges and good for running and the water is so calm and 80 so perfect for me to swim. I looked for a diving shop and found one but this town is full of surfers and I needed a partner which I couldn´t find. I thought I would stay here but decided to head south to go scuba diving in costa rica so off I go.

... touristischer vorgestellt. Ok, hier haengen schon ganz schoen viele Touristen rum, aber es vermischt sich alles mit der Einheimischen Bevolkerung und man sieht hier noch sehr viel Landleben. Wir sind heute frueh aufgestanden und haben uns ein Motorrad gemietet, da wir nicht bei vorgeschneiderten Touren mitmachen wollten. Eine Strasse ist hier gemacht, ansonsten ist alles so ein Schotterweg. Das sagt auch mein Allerwertester, der ist naemlich bestimmt schon ...