Bungalows Conny San Blas

Why have I spent the last week plus crossing the country at great cost to end up at a remote beach on the coast of Nayarit?<br><br>I've always wanted to volunteer on a turtle conservation project but those I have seen previously have been ridiculously price prohibitive - how can it cost that much to work for free?!! Anyway, this place was only $5 bucks a day including accommodation in a rustic leaking jejene(sandfly)/mosquito infested palapa. The upside, of ...

... wasn`t awful... I am just kidding. In all fairness I really enjoyed the first 20 minutes on that boat. :) The journey was rough but the destination was quite spectacular. The San Blas Archipelago are gorgeous beyond words. A combination of 365 islands with only a small handful inhabited... make for a surreal and magical destination. A few of the islands are inhabited by the indigenous Kuna people ...

... on the way. 2 hours on the island was plenty to circumnavigate it several times, see the small museum, take far too many photos (sorry!) and enjoy dried shrimp empanadas for breakfast on a street corner with the locals. You may notice how the kerbs are 2` high - in wet season the village becomes a little venice with canoes navigating the 'streets¨'

San Blas famous as laid back spot with good surf and it's pier features in a famous romantic Mexican song - all I found were some fisherman's/commercial docks - hardly romantic except in the sunset! Also notoriously buggy but since it was dry season, they weren't as bad as usual, except on ...

Na ostrove jsme si byli zasnorchlovat na koralove utesy. Vecer to tady celkem zije. Mistni zde prodavaji pro kluky a holky pivo, neco zeleneho a kokosove orechy. Meli jsme vzdy jednoduchou snidani, obed a veceri. Obed a vecere se skladala z ryby / rybi hlavy ;) a ryze. Takze zadne velke hody. Mistni obyvatelstvo zije velmi proste. ;)

Hi Again folks, We hope everyone is doing well cause we sure are having a great time! Our access to internet is very limited so we have not emailed too many times. Also the whole time we were in Mexico I was too busy doing nothing that I had no time to write. Well a lot as happened since our last entry as I am writing this from Tarija in Bolivia so here is a little update. We had a great three weeks on the West coast of Mexico around Puerto ...

Today we were picked up at 5.00 am to travel to the San Blas islands, we travelled by jeep fro about 2hrs and some of the terrain was pretty bumpy and muddy, we were glad to be in a big jeep. The scenery on route was beautiful, lovely views and lots of jungle. We arrived at a river and then got on a boat that would take us along the river and then into the sea, we arrived at one of the islands at ...

Crossing the border and heading south in Mexico, that was the mission for Saturday. The border crossing was uneventful. But at km21, there is a circus dedicated to supplying papers and travel documents for each of the thousands of people going south. We stood in lines to get our tourist visa, another line to make copies, another line to get the vehicle registration. We skipped the line for insurance - but since there ...

... at the sights and fill up with petrol and off we go toward Mazatlan The Mex 15 is a fairly good road with berms in most places not like on Baja where if your off the pavement your DEAD ! The countryside turns to pretty much agriculture scenes and is a welcome change from Baja. On down the road we get to Culiacan where the sign says the population 777.000, wow, ! big city coming up We find a mall with a grocery and pick up some needed supplies and off we go again threading our ...

The balmy and steaming night in Mazatlan didn't help me with any sleep. Next morning I hitched a ride with Dutch on his Jeep Cherokee he bought for $2000 in California. The snake bending road was twisty, turning, ups and downs, and Mexican aren't exactly great drivers. We stopped for fuel and a nice Mexico girl served up Coca Cola for 1 peso and some tacos for lunch ...