Playa de San Juan

Travelling overland from Cancun, Mexico to San Jose, Costa Rica, flying to Peru to work for an NGO that helps to educate poor children, then exploring South America on a free-range basis. Main aims of the trip are to become more relaxed/less high- ...

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Hello! This is a snipit of my adventures while working on the North Coast of Honduras from June 2004 through to June 2005. For friends and family to keep an eye on what I have been up to down here...

We've been good kids long enough and now its time to be travelers again. Tracy has sold here restaurant, and I'm in the last few weeks of work before quitting my job. At the end of Feb '09 we've decide to go see the world. We had a hard time deciding ...

... day in San Juan before they began their journey South and eventually home to NZ. We had all agreed that a boat cruise around San Juan's beaches would be a fabulous send off. At 11am we boarded our sailing boat 'gypsy' which was quite small for our group ...

... .  We spent 2 nights in San Juan Del Sur, just enough time to find out where to go for good surfing and beach atmoshere. San Juan does not offer surfing, but is kinda the hub where all the gringos go.  It has a little beach the harbours boats or ...

... for Nicaraguans on their seaside vacations. This has resulted in a relatively large amount of development and investment pouring in to San Juan. Although, I think we were were fortunate enough to catch it early on in itīs development life cycle as it ...

... today. Apparently it is customary for entire families to take the day off and hit the beaches. There are hoards of people on Playa San Juan right now and they are having so much fun playing in the waves and kicking a "futbol" on the sand. Well letīs ...

... how much sunshine can affect your mood, and immediately began to smile out loud. It was around 2pm when the bus dropped us off in San Juan Del Sur, where we were to kill a few hours until getting a further bus to Playa El Coco in order to be nearer to ...

... very hard to come by and the only books kids typically encounter are school books – no stories or anything for preschoolers.) San Juan del Sur reminded me of the beach towns in Southern California.  It was not that different from Venice Beach ...

    Hola a todos! Despues de unos dias en la bella isla de Ometepe y en esa finca ecologica de el zopilote, ahora me encuentro en la playa a unos kilometros de la frontera con Costa Rica, la cual es probable que cruce ...

... of sun and swimming and with Semana Santa (Holy Week ie Easter) rapidly approaching it was time to head to Isla de Ometepe to chill out. It looked like San Juan del Sur was going to get crazy, (not in a good way) and expensive, and possibly dangerous. ...

... to make friends that keep turning up at each of our stops.  It seems we are on the tourist path: Leon, Granada, Ometepe, San Juan del Sur.  When we planned the trip it all sounded so exotic. Now it is just “what everyone does” when ...

after a night of drinking, i woke up at 9.30 to a bunch of noise.. i decided to take the shuttle for $4USD to playa maderas a huge surfing spot. the ride there was 45mins and one hell of a bumpy ride, you need a four wheel drive to get there. i took the ...

... in hammocks and swimming at the local beach.  We needed some serious R&R after the Osa Peninsula and we took the opportunity San Juan gave us to recharge our batteries.  We were also waiting for Jules to join us as he was still living it up ...

... put on the air conditioning, the cheek.  However, it was all worth it once I arrived in the paradise that is Playa Maderas (and not San Juan del Sur as it says above, its just that Google maps doesn't have the other spot on it).  Technically we ...

San Juan del Sur is a municipality and coastal town on the Pacific Ocean, in the Rivas department in south-west Nicaragua. San Juan del Sur is popular among surfers and is a vacation spot for many Nicaraguan families and foreign tourists. Its population ...

... Juan del Sur. "San Juan del Sur is where God lives" is what a friend told me before arriving, and I'm inclined to agree. San Juan del Sur is a small fishing village on the south west coast of Nicaragua. This town is chilled out in the most relaxed form ...