San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua 8-10/2-2007
Route: Rivas - San Juan del Sur
I left Rivas in the morning after I had copied my photos from the memory card to some cd´s. I now have room for another 1000 photos. Down here the internet is really slowly, so it have been a bit difficult to download the photos, but I will do it sooner or later. I made to copies, one set which I have sent home to Norway, and the other that I plan to keep when traveling.
After all the border crossings I also started to get short of US dollars. It is strange, but most of the countries here are interested in getting the border crosssing paid in dollars. In the Bank of America, it is possible to redraw US dollar in the ATM´s, and in Rivas I found a Bank of America. So now I have US dollar again.
From Rivas to San Juan del Sur it is just a half hour ride. I had planned to try surfing and went to one of the surf shops called Area Caliente where I am also going to stay the next days. I have been corresponding with Shane and Forrest and it seems like a good idea to meet up here instead of me crossing the border to Costa Rica. I have gotten reports that the border crossing to Costa Rica is a nightmare now. It takes like four hours to get through, so for my case, it would just be to cross the border twice in a day or two, which could in the worst cast scenario be a day waiting.
When I got to San Juan del Sur I found a surf place called Area Caliente, which also have rooms for rent. The first thing I did when I got to San Juan was to send the lava rocks that I had picked from the vulcano in Guatemala to my father in Sauda. He likes stones, and I thought that some lava stones would be fine in his collection. I tried to surf later the first day, and had an instructor for an hour. The waves were quite small, soo it was a bit difficult to get on the wave but I managed to get some rides. The beach we were at was Madera Beach which is located just north of San Juan.
In Area Caliente, I sheare a room with Steve from New Sealand. The first day we went out with Steves friend and had dinner in one of the local restuarntes. Afterwards I checked my email and got a message form Shane that they were crossing the border the next day, and would meet me in San Juan.
The next day (9´th) I went surfing again. This time I just rented a board. It was still not good waves, but I had an ok day at the beach. I surfed together with a french guy that was studying in Costa Rica. He was a pritty good surfer and could give me some advices about surfing. Around 3 o´clock I heard the sound of the bikes of Forrest and Shane, and they drowe down the beach. Shane broad sided his bike, which was a really cool sight. Finally we are catching up again, and we plan to go north together.
We went in the evening to one of the local resturantes and had dinner. It was in the same place that we ate last night with Steve and his buddies.
Forrest and Shane were really keen on staying in San Juan a couple of days, so we stayed the 10´th too. It was some more surfing in the day and dinner and ice cream in the evening. Before we left to the beach we bought some fruit and bread and water. The watermelon that I bought was a bad one. Then sticking the knif into it it puffed like opening a limonade someone had been shaking, and the smell (and taste) was awful. A big dissapointment for me. We spent the day with a German guy and two girls from the USA.
San Juan is a nice place, but it is crowded by turist and americans. Lots of americans have bought a house down here, so the hills sourrounding the city is packed with those big nice villas with a swimming pool.
I left Rivas in the morning after I had copied my photos from the memory card to some cd´s. I now have room for another 1000 photos. Down here the internet is really slowly, so it have been a bit difficult to download the photos, but I will do it sooner or later. I made to copies, one set which I have sent home to Norway, and the other that I plan to keep when traveling.
After all the border crossings I also started to get short of US dollars. It is strange, but most of the countries here are interested in getting the border crosssing paid in dollars. In the Bank of America, it is possible to redraw US dollar in the ATM´s, and in Rivas I found a Bank of America. So now I have US dollar again.
From Rivas to San Juan del Sur it is just a half hour ride. I had planned to try surfing and went to one of the surf shops called Area Caliente where I am also going to stay the next days. I have been corresponding with Shane and Forrest and it seems like a good idea to meet up here instead of me crossing the border to Costa Rica. I have gotten reports that the border crossing to Costa Rica is a nightmare now. It takes like four hours to get through, so for my case, it would just be to cross the border twice in a day or two, which could in the worst cast scenario be a day waiting.
When I got to San Juan del Sur I found a surf place called Area Caliente, which also have rooms for rent. The first thing I did when I got to San Juan was to send the lava rocks that I had picked from the vulcano in Guatemala to my father in Sauda. He likes stones, and I thought that some lava stones would be fine in his collection. I tried to surf later the first day, and had an instructor for an hour. The waves were quite small, soo it was a bit difficult to get on the wave but I managed to get some rides. The beach we were at was Madera Beach which is located just north of San Juan.
In Area Caliente, I sheare a room with Steve from New Sealand. The first day we went out with Steves friend and had dinner in one of the local restuarntes. Afterwards I checked my email and got a message form Shane that they were crossing the border the next day, and would meet me in San Juan.
The next day (9´th) I went surfing again. This time I just rented a board. It was still not good waves, but I had an ok day at the beach. I surfed together with a french guy that was studying in Costa Rica. He was a pritty good surfer and could give me some advices about surfing. Around 3 o´clock I heard the sound of the bikes of Forrest and Shane, and they drowe down the beach. Shane broad sided his bike, which was a really cool sight. Finally we are catching up again, and we plan to go north together.
We went in the evening to one of the local resturantes and had dinner. It was in the same place that we ate last night with Steve and his buddies.
Forrest and Shane were really keen on staying in San Juan a couple of days, so we stayed the 10´th too. It was some more surfing in the day and dinner and ice cream in the evening. Before we left to the beach we bought some fruit and bread and water. The watermelon that I bought was a bad one. Then sticking the knif into it it puffed like opening a limonade someone had been shaking, and the smell (and taste) was awful. A big dissapointment for me. We spent the day with a German guy and two girls from the USA.
San Juan is a nice place, but it is crowded by turist and americans. Lots of americans have bought a house down here, so the hills sourrounding the city is packed with those big nice villas with a swimming pool.
posted by Øyvind Thiem at 8:21 AM
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Stålmann Råde-Pedersen og resten av SV-homsene i Sauda hadde kysset den hvite rompa di hvis de hadde visst at du besøkte vennskapsbyen te Sauda...
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