Hotel La Dolce Vita San Juan del Sur

... back, we passed a fresh set of tracks where a third turtle had arrived and left while we were watching the first two. We also found a tiny baby turtle from a completely different nest who was trapped on the way back to the sea. In this area, crabs burrow little holes the same size as baby turtles. When the turtles fall into these holes, as this baby had done, they often become a meal. We stopped to watch the baby and cheer it on as it ...

... to bother.<br><br>Back to the Beach and various reunions<br><br>It was then back to Casa D&#8217;Abram and the beach. Another place I found difficult to leave. Maderas connects to other beaches, including one almost deserted beach, where I would often walk to and chill, as the others surfed. Yes my ideas of becoming a pro-surfer have somewhat been dampened or the plan has been put on hold. It needs a lot of dedication and I want to see so much more of the countries I ...

... to a waterfall near<br>the volcanoes base. The waterfall was very high. It must have taken the<br>water almost a minute to reach the bottom from the top. It was a nice<br>place to relax after the hike but too shallow to go swimming. <br> <br>Rather than walk all the way home, we walked 3km&#8217;s to the road and<br>hitchhiked the last few kilometers back to the hostel. We got picked up<br>by a truck carrying bananas and beer, we had to hang off the ...

... 1 week vacation with his nephew who lives in Nicaragua. Nils is soo funny! He is around 40 years old, is an English/Spanish teacher and talks with such a heavy accent so I am laughing the entire time!!! Literally&#8230; whole time with a smile on my face! He taught me soo many new words and we talked in Spanish the entire time!...he knew exactly how to bargain the prices really really low with all the taxi drivers and hostels and such. So what a blessing, we took a ...

... frustrated group.<br>But our professor said today could just be a work day for our multi-media project and brochure that we have to do for class. This was a much needed day because my group had made little project up until today.... So overall today was uneventful but successful!<br>We did take a lunch break and went to El Gato Negro, which is a little organic coffee bar. They serve great little sandwiches and brownies :).<br>For another ...

... and we were off. The guy never even knew what hit him. We ended up at Hotel Encanto del Sur, which is not on any map nor in any guidebook, and was just a block away from the main part of town. We highly recommend it. There was: freezing a/c with remote, satelite TV with remote, private bath, peace and quite, and all the high speed internet we could soak up for $20/night. Sweet. Now we're set to really enjoy SJdS. At this point I ended up going out on the ...

... is going to sprout and solve everything. But we´re not quite sure what he is going to solve! The scary thing is this guy is dead serious and truly belives his freakazoid ideas. Next day we took a hike up to a nearby waterfall again to remind us how unfit we are. It was so hot and sweat was pouring out of us but at the end the hike was rewarded with a refreshing shower under the waterfall. Its not too often you get to stand under a waterfall halfway up an active volcano.

... have menus, not even in Spanish!) and inflated prices. And with that were the people all this catered for. Nuff said. Near-alcoholic stooopid surfer-kids from the States, a hoard of dappy and ignorant Canadian girls (verging on acting like a permanent hen-party...easy pickups though). I guess that's what happens when you make somewhere cheap and nice too easy to get to and too well known about. Shame. <br><br>I guess i stayed too ...

... It was really, really tiny, more like a pony or a large dog even! When they handed him over to me they said he was a little "loco". This didn't get me too worried though. I've riden horses before at my aunt Franny's place, but they were always well-fed and well-trained and didn't look like dogs. So we all piled onto our horses and were waiting around for our local "guides" (who spoke no English, gave us no ...

... minutes, his buddies picked him up (one holding each limb) and took him to the side where they sat him up and looked at his stomach, feeling it. That revealed nothing so they picked him up again and carried him out of the arena, at one point stumbling and dropping him. <br><br>Horrified, a Scottish couple I was with, who had just finished an emergency medicine internship in DC, left to check on the guy and see if they could contribute. Later they told me that he was being looked after ...