San Juan del Sur Campgrounds - Reviews and Rates

Well, we've been in San Juan del Sur for longer than we had anticipated. One of our main reasons for coming down here was to check out a beach nearby where sea turtles come to lay their eggs, and where those eggs subsequently hatch into wee tiny little turtles that crawl out into the sea. Such things would be absolutely amazing to see. Unfortuna...

The Great Escape

Thursday morning, our third morning in Teguci we wake up at 5 am to call a couple of bus companies to see if we could get an early morning bus out of Teguci as we believed, along with the rest of Honduras that the curfew was being lifted at 6am. There is predictably no answer, so we reset the alarm for 6 am and try again....

what up we be alive- we arrived in san juan at noon yesterday from the island. we decided to take the bus from our hostel instead of the cab ride and it was a nice experience - this is the bus that all the locals ride - after about a 2.5 hour bus ride on dirt roads we hopped on a ferry for 1.5 hours to the mainland - there was a woman on the fer...

by Kim: This was our only tender port of the trip, which meant that instead of being able to walk off the ship, we anchored offshore and got to ride small boats called tenders from there to the pier. Hurricane damage and repair work on the road from the port in San Juan del Sur made what was supposed to be a 90 minute bus ride even longer (and m...

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 some south. We were excited to try to surf again, hoping that Playa Maderas, supposedly the be...

SJDS is nice enough. Could definitely be a party time in the busy season, but fairly quiet. Lots of bars out overlooking the beach. BUT we missed the 7am bus to the road to the border (I slept in) so we got a later start than we wanted. But then we met an american who was working as a tour guide who had some time off and was travelling to Costa ...

All together it was 24 hours of travel, maybe more. I left Panama City and went to Nicaragua by bus, thereby crossing two boarders along the way. I chose to skip Costa Rica because I had heard nothing but how crowded it was, so you can imagine my thoughts as I pulled into San Juan del Sur and saw Century 21 and other well known Stateside real es...

After an earthquake interrupts our plans to visit Isla de Ometepe, we find ourselves at the beach again!