Friday, 16 May 2014
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Ometepe home stay
The home stay in Ometepe was not exactly what I had imagined. In India we built these houses, now we had the opportunity to live in one of them. Four walls and a roof, but not much more. No plumbing, only one extension cord for electricity, no appliances or fresh water. Basically it is as bare bones as you could imagine.
Getting cleaned up.
Heading off to school.
A morning at the beach. We stopped off to clean some mangos.
Everyone was doing their laundry on these man made rock islands. These guys brought their horse in to cool off.
Which was a good thing because the horses here are desperately thin and can use all the breaks they can get.
Cascada San Ramon & Ojo de Agua
After Rio Celeste we stayed at a cheap hostel in Liberia. Hotel Guanacaste. It wasn't fancy but only $18! Not gross and very close to the bus station.
We had one last night of laughs with Miguel which included a whole lot of disco.
In the morning we made our way to Ometepe. First a bus ride to la frontera (the border), followed by a meltdown due to a serious need for food, followed by another bus ride, then a bicycle ride, a ferry and finally a taxi to Los Ramos.
There are two volcanoes on Isla Ometepe. Volcan Concepcion & Volcan Maderas.
On day one we decided to take it easy and see the waterfall (Cascada San Ramon) and the swimming hole (Ojo de Agus).
The waterfall was beautiful. However the over one hour hike up to it was enough to make us reconsider trying the 4 hour hike up to Maderas or the 5 hour hike up to Concepcion in the sweltering heat as there would still be the return trip down the volcano.
It reminded me of my 9 hour hike (4.5hrs each way) to the top of the volcano with my friend Merilee in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. As rewarding as it was I did not want to risk having to carry
Hailey back down the mountain in a diabetic coma.
We had one last night of laughs with Miguel which included a whole lot of disco.
In the morning we made our way to Ometepe. First a bus ride to la frontera (the border), followed by a meltdown due to a serious need for food, followed by another bus ride, then a bicycle ride, a ferry and finally a taxi to Los Ramos.
Check out the moss growing on the hydro wires!
On day one we decided to take it easy and see the waterfall (Cascada San Ramon) and the swimming hole (Ojo de Agus).
The waterfall was beautiful. However the over one hour hike up to it was enough to make us reconsider trying the 4 hour hike up to Maderas or the 5 hour hike up to Concepcion in the sweltering heat as there would still be the return trip down the volcano.
It reminded me of my 9 hour hike (4.5hrs each way) to the top of the volcano with my friend Merilee in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. As rewarding as it was I did not want to risk having to carry
Hailey back down the mountain in a diabetic coma.
The long and arduous path.
Ojo de Agua was a refreshing break after a long morning of hiking.
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