PANAMA | Wednesday, 18 Aug 2010 | Views [538]
Last adventure in Panama 16 August
2010
Up at 5 am-haven't done that for a
while! All to catch the Panama Canal Train from Panama city to Colon
on the Caribbean coast. We thought we may not make it as the cabs
were already busy ... Read more >
PANAMA | Monday, 16 Aug 2010 | Views [499]
Panama City 11-15
August 2010
We
have spent the last few days looking around the city. Our hostel is
not far from the major banking and commercial area of El Cangrejo and
after a productive morning,when we actually managed ... Read more >
PANAMA | Monday, 16 Aug 2010 | Views [1102]
Panama City 10
August 2010
After
our free breakfast of coffee, juice and toast we left Casa de Carmen
late morning and caught a local bus to the Allbrook Terminal and
Mall-American style huge and new with dozens of ... Read more >
PANAMA | Monday, 16 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery
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PANAMA | Tuesday, 10 Aug 2010 | Views [720]
Bocas Del Toro To
Panama City Monday 9 August 2010
It
was a beautiful morning as we left Bocas by water taxi ($US4) at
7.30. It was still quiet in the streets-the vultures were out picking
at the rubbish but even the ... Read more >
PANAMA | Tuesday, 10 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery
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Bocas Del Toro Panama
August 4 2010
Our first full day was spent just
walking around the place checking out the shops, having a coffee and
doing some grocery shopping. We have a great kitchen at the hostel
-only things ... Read more >
PANAMA | Monday, 9 Aug 2010 | Views [1110]
Panama Border August 3
Our last morning in Cahuita-we got up
early and posted some postcards as we were about to leave Costa Rica
and they had Costa Rican stamps. The PO was down a sandy side road
and right next to the police ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Monday, 9 Aug 2010 | Views [677]
Cahuita August 1
The bus station at Turrialba is new and
modern and not too far from the town centre. We were lucky enough to
get a lift from Jane and Fraser so after saying goodbye we wrote a
few postcards and waited for the ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Monday, 9 Aug 2010 | Views [511]
Turrialba Costa Rica
July 30 & 31
Another bus-another town-this time from
San Jose to Turrialba about two hours away. We were going to visit a
schoolfriend of my daughter and enjoy chatting with a Kiwi again.
Turrialba-... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Monday, 9 Aug 2010 | Views [577]
San Jose Costa Rica
26 – 29 July
It took two buses to get from La
Fortuna to San Jose. I slept most of the way so don't remember too
much of it-I know it was hot-no aircon on the bus. In San Jose we
were dropped off at the ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Sunday, 1 Aug 2010 | Views [1005]
La Fortuna Costa Rica July 24
The roads from Monteverde are
shocking-winding, narrow, potholed, rutted dirt roads. There have
been calls to pave them but there is resistance to this. The Quakers,
who have put Monteverde on the ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Friday, 30 Jul 2010 | Views [643]
Monteverde Costa Rica July 23
Today was the day to feel the fear and
do it anyway-ziplining in the cloud forest of Monteverde. I am not at
all happy with great heights so the thought of hanging off a steel
cable at tree top level ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Friday, 30 Jul 2010 | Photo Gallery
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COSTA RICA | Thursday, 29 Jul 2010 | Views [499]
Isla Ometepe -Costa Rica 22 July
Time to leave our lovely island home
where we had relaxed and had a chance to appreciate the surroundings.
The previous morning we had gone for a horse ride-along tracks
through the tropical ... Read more >
NICARAGUA | Thursday, 29 Jul 2010 | Views [315]
Fiesta day- a surprise birthday for Carly. Hope she hasn't seen the pinata and booze and snacks that were smuggled onboard the chicken ferry under very tricky conditions! The plan was to keep her busy having her hair straightened while some of us organised ... Read more >
NICARAGUA | Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 | Views [770]
Ometepe Island via the “Chicken
ferry” Nicuragua July 20
We almost left a group member behind in
Granada-we were supposed to leave at 1030am but he thought it was
11am-it was close. We were just pulling away when he came along ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 25 Jul 2010 | Views [733]
Honduras -Nicaragua Sunday July 18
Another early start to beat the traffic
-we left the hotel in Comayagua at 0620 and walked just across the
road to the bus. Although it was a public bus we were the first pick
up so we got the ... Read more >
