Hi,
I've been offline(and a bit lazy), so haven't sent an update for awhile.
I've been travelling for the past 2 weeks with Francois, a really nice guy from Quebec City. His Spanish is pretty good, so I'm getting really lazy with learning more Spanish. Oh well.
After the week in the jungle lodge on the Rio Dulce, on the Caribbean side of Guatemala, we headed to El Salvador, and really enjoyed the northern parts. Some very scenic mountain country with lots of volcanoes, and coffee fields. We hit the Ruta de Flores during a gourmet food festival. Great BBQ's, and some interesting gourmet food. Good cold beer too.
We then heading down to Leon, Nicaragua, and really nice old colonial town, and then off to a remote beach on the Pacific coast. We just finished 4 days at a stunning beach area called Las Penitas. Miles of clean, white sand, huge surf(and undertow), great food, and cold beers(of course). The most activity I saw on the beach was watching the local town pig walk the beach. I almost expected him to go out and play in the surf. Very Tranquilo(relaxing). We hired a guide and a motorized canoe, to explore a salt water lagoon in a remote national park here. Tons of really interesting birds, including parrots.
My favorite activity was sitting with a cold drink in the wooden beach lookout, and watching the Pelicans fishing. There were sometimes up to 50 Pelicans all fishing at the same time in the surf.
We arrive in Granada, Nicaragua today, and will spend a few days hiking, kayaking to some islands in the lake here, and maybe swimming in a crater lake. We'll see how it goes.
I'm still planning to head down to Panama, but might add Columbia to my agenda if the logistics work out.
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