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8 juillet 2010

First Maya ruins!

Today 8th of July, we went to see our first Mayan ruins of the trip. We are in Copan, just by the border between Guatemala and Honduras. What a difference to Inca ruins! There are sculptures everywhere, and despite strong erosion from the rain, you can...

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3 juillet 2010

Utila

So here we are on Utila island in Honduras. It is called Honduras but it doesn't really feel like it. First of all the main language here is English, Spanish is only the second language to the locals. The local's accent has a strong jamaican feel (ya...

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28 juin 2010

First experiences in Honduras

Yesterday we arrived in Honduras. It was a loooong day. A total of 17 hours travelling.The roads are dangerous, as everywhere, and yesterday we got a taste of it... Our bus hit a motocycle. The guy on the motocycle was lucky, his helmet went flying off...

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28 juin 2010

Last days in Nicaragua

So we spent the past week in Granada, Leon and Esteli. Mainly suffering from the heat, watching football, drinking beer, napping and hiding from the pouring rain!Granada is a pretty little colonial town: Leon has its charms also but is more busy than...

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20 juin 2010

Isla de Ometepe

Change of country! We are now in Nicaragua since Thursday afternoon. After a day full of buses and one boat, we arrived on the Island of Ometepe. The island is in fact 2 volcanoes in the middle of Lake Nicaragua, that are now linked together, by the lava...

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17 juin 2010

Food

For those who know me well,you know the importance of food in my life... So I've created a photo album dedicated to the food I've eaten or come across during the trip... Enjoy :p

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16 juin 2010

Nosara

Yesterday we left Monteverde and made our way to Nosara. We had been told that we would have to take 4 different buses to get to our destination, so we were ready for a long, tiring day. However, after taking the first bus and getting off on the Panamerican...

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13 juin 2010

Canopy in Monteverde

So today's big activity of the day was Canopy. We don't usually do these gringo style activities during the trip, but this time we thought "what the heck, this looks quite fun". We were booked to go on the canopy tour at 10:30 am and at 9 o'clock it was...

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12 juin 2010

Santa Elena cloud forest reserve

We finally made an outing today! Our first real activity since we arrived in Costa Rica... it was about time! We had to get up early to catch the bus, alarm set at 7:30. Unfortunately our darling american neighbor woke us up a good 45 minutes before that......

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12 juin 2010

Face-lift for the blog

As you can see, being ill yesterday I had a lot of time on my hands... to watch the world cup and then to finally take care of my poor blog's ugly looks. I hope you all like it's face-lift! i am going to be working on it some more, on past posts, to include...

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