Nicaragua After transito

Places we went after transito:

The following list is all in Nicaragua

Grenada - Antigua is to guatemala as Grenada is to Nicaragua. Every corner somebody is trying to sell you something. The main street fills up with plastic chairs and tourists at night outside of fancy little restaurants. I'd say it was quite the latin American romantic scene. Good mood lighting.... Mariachi bands.... Bottles of wine..... Street performers trying to make a buck..... Kids trying to sell you flutes.... Always the freaking flutes! ... Not set up for Four grimy twenty two year olds looking for cheap food....

Laguna apollo - met up with coop, Garrett, and the kids. it's the crater lake of Nicaragua.

Ometepe -
We got off the ferry in the dimming sunset and ripped off in pursuit of Coop and the quest to find an organic farm! We pulled up to the location and there was an old painted school bus offering yoga, massages, organic bread...etc. But it was dark, no people, and no real spot to camp right there. The group split up and I found myself watching the car with the banjo hippie girls who hitched a ride with us from the ferry.
Everybody reconvened at the car. The news was the farm did exist up in the darkness. We grabbed our sleeping gear and wandered up the hill.
Somehow, along the path, I lost everybody, but off In the distance I heard a faint drumming. I pursued the sound and walked up right smack dab into dreddie hippie land! After a quick glance around, my friends were nowhere to be found. I asked, and the reply i got, in a slow I've smoked a lot of weed tonight tone, was "just come play music with us man, you're friends will find you." So I went and found my friends who had ordered a dozen pizzas and beer. Awesome. I love pizza.

And that's ometepe. Hippie dippie island on lago Nicaragua.

Playa Colorado - be warned! The water is so cold. The currents from the deep ocean are brought along the shoreline by offshore winds caused by lago nicaragua. We wore full wetsuits while surfing.

It's a kind of gated club community with a ton of surfers. big resort houses... Even a golf course.


Maderas, near San Juan del sur - had the night of my life in the worst way. I got destroyed by the infamous gut bug of central America. You know the description.... But! I was lucky and it only lasted that night. Skyler got hit differently and he was cooped up in a hammock for three days with no energy. Maderas is cool though. Lots of gringos. Good surf. Cool restaurants to hang out and in the evening everybody goes back to San Juan del sur so maderas is tranquilo man. Nice toilet too.

When we were feeling better, we rallied south into costa rica!