Central America

[chegrimandi]

to get to little corn island we got a bus from managua to rama - this takes about 15 ish hours IIRC - then you have to get a speed boat from rama to bluefields for about 4 hours - which is on the caribbean coast and a wicked little port in itself - then from bluefields you can either get a fishing boat to big corn island which takes quite a while - we couldn't get on one on the way out - or you can get a small bi-plane - which was about $50 U.S a few years back. Then from Big Corn you need to get a speed boat again to Little Corn.

Then you are in paradise in the middle of the sea.

 

[Yossarian]

Nice one - heading from Siguapeteque to Tegucigalpa tomorrow and onwards to Nicaragua, where the cities are a little easier to pronounce... I reckon we´ll be aiming to get to Granada and Lake Nicaragua first off, but I´m definitely planning to get to the Corn Islands within a few weeks...

 

[chegrimandi]

Nice one - heading from Siguapeteque to Tegucigalpa tomorrow and onwards to Nicaragua, where the cities are a little easier to pronounce...

what couldn't you handle Quetzaltenango?!

 

[Yossarian]

Nicaragua was indeed an amazing country, many thanks for the recommendations, it wasn't easy to tear ourselves away from the place!

Currently in eastern El Salvador, heading down to La Libertad in a day or two for some Pacific surf then onwards into Guatemala - where Huehuetenango and Quetzaltenango will definitely be on the itinerary...

 

[zoltan]

you lukcy feckin bastard

 

[Sweet FA]

heading down to La Libertad in a day or two for some Pacific surf

If it's still there; the Amor y Paz 'hotel' is basic but cheap n cheerful. It's right on the beach - if you get a room on the back, the high tide washes up against the windows (or the holes in the walls where the windows should be...). Fucking huge roaches though

 

[Sunray]

Someone posted up that the Tin Miners from Cornwall were in some small community and you can still buy a spicy mexican version of the Cornish pasty. That is something I would be heading for when I spend a while drifting about central and South America.

 

[Yossarian]

If it's still there; the Amor y Paz 'hotel' is basic but cheap n cheerful. It's right on the beach - if you get a room on the back, the high tide washes up against the windows (or the holes in the walls where the windows should be...). Fucking huge roaches though

Cheers - we passed by there - were you there before the 2001 earthquake? Where the beachside rooms must once have been there´s nothing but some crumbling shells of buildings - La Libertad and the beaches around were still a fine place to spend a few days though, and that Mariscada soup they specialise in round there is a meal I´ll remember for a long time!