14 June 2005
yup....
so, today is a tuesday. I'm in Puerto Viejo on the Carribean side near panama. We spent the last 10 days in Playa Brasilito near Tamarindo (on the pacific side), from there we bussed on south to Playa Samara, then cruised west thr0ugh san jose and onward to Cahuita just north of Puerto Viejo.
All those places were nice.
But Puerto Viejo, where we are now, at the hostel "Rockin J's" has been the highlight since the last post. The Caribean is prooving to be more enjoyable all around then the pacific side. Everything is more relaxed. Our hostel is really pretty sweet too. I'm sleeping in a hammock for $5 a night. Thing is, the hammocks are really comfortable and there's about 50 of em. There's also places to camp or rent rooms. There's even a honeymooning couple paying $60 a night for a tree house room. So there's a lot of cool people to hang out with and meet and the beach is cool as well. It's all coral on this beach but there are little pools about the size of a large hot tube where there isn't any coral. So you can walk on top of the reef (which is mostly above the water) until you find a pool and just jump in a chill there for a bit.
Betsy leaves tomorrow. So tomorrow, or the next day, I'll head a short 20 km south to Panama. In Panama i plan to learn how to scuba dive. There are 3 day courses to get your diving certificate... and i'm in. I'll probably be about a week in panama. And then my tentative plan is to get myself back up into Nicaragua to volunteer on a permaculture farm owned by a guy i met while i was on ometepe. His farm is also on ometepe near the farm i stayed at the first time. It's just down the fill from where we hiked up to the crater lake and should be pretty amazing. I plan to volunteer there for at least two weeks... but if i end up really enjoying the work and surroundings, i may stay on until i fly home.
The people have all been really helpful. Recently we've been running into other travelors we had met at the beginning of our trip. It's like having little reunions with people you barely know every once in a while just so you can pretend to have a different familiar face to see.
J - tell me about hungary. That's where you are, right?
OUT
All those places were nice.
But Puerto Viejo, where we are now, at the hostel "Rockin J's" has been the highlight since the last post. The Caribean is prooving to be more enjoyable all around then the pacific side. Everything is more relaxed. Our hostel is really pretty sweet too. I'm sleeping in a hammock for $5 a night. Thing is, the hammocks are really comfortable and there's about 50 of em. There's also places to camp or rent rooms. There's even a honeymooning couple paying $60 a night for a tree house room. So there's a lot of cool people to hang out with and meet and the beach is cool as well. It's all coral on this beach but there are little pools about the size of a large hot tube where there isn't any coral. So you can walk on top of the reef (which is mostly above the water) until you find a pool and just jump in a chill there for a bit.
Betsy leaves tomorrow. So tomorrow, or the next day, I'll head a short 20 km south to Panama. In Panama i plan to learn how to scuba dive. There are 3 day courses to get your diving certificate... and i'm in. I'll probably be about a week in panama. And then my tentative plan is to get myself back up into Nicaragua to volunteer on a permaculture farm owned by a guy i met while i was on ometepe. His farm is also on ometepe near the farm i stayed at the first time. It's just down the fill from where we hiked up to the crater lake and should be pretty amazing. I plan to volunteer there for at least two weeks... but if i end up really enjoying the work and surroundings, i may stay on until i fly home.
The people have all been really helpful. Recently we've been running into other travelors we had met at the beginning of our trip. It's like having little reunions with people you barely know every once in a while just so you can pretend to have a different familiar face to see.
J - tell me about hungary. That's where you are, right?
OUT
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WOW! glad your mum sent me the site - sounds like you're having a blast... nothing like traveling place to place as the wind takes you... enjoy it!
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