Tchao Costa Rica and hello Nicaragua! After crossing the border, we went directly to take the boat to the island of Ometepe, an island with two volcanoes in the middle of a huge lake, it’s in this rough lake that we met John an American guy from Chicago on vacation.

We went with him in this ecological farm / camping / hostel. A place on the hill of the volcano Maderas, very rustic, very hippie and in harmony with nature. Outdoor shower, one night we even found a snake in our bedroom.

Early the next morning Carol went to this free yoga class, and from 9am to 1pm, we helped the staff at some home made production like Jamaica flower syrup, packing homemade chocolate, labeling bottles of mosquito repellant ect…

Then we went for a walk on the beach of the lake to cool us a bit.

Very early the next morning, Carol had a bakery class! Yes normally cooking classes are for Alexis, but this time Carol wanted to get her hands on the dough. She learned to make bread, cookies and brownies, yum!

In the afternoon, we rented bikes and we went to swim in a pool of natural waters of the volcano, a relaxing place in the middle of the nature. On the road we saw monkeys everywhere.

At night, we had pizza night at the farm, the owners are Italians hippies, it was delicious. We met Lucia a Spanish girl and Katharina a German girl on holidays, both living in El Salvador.
The following morning we woke up early to climb the volcano Maderas, accompanied by John and Tania a German who lives in Costa Rica. It took us 4 hours to reach the crater, climbing on a muddy road in the middle of a jungle peeled with some pretty views of the other volcano on the island.

When we arrived in the crater, we discovered a lake, a beautiful place hard to access. We had a picnic and off again, 3 hours later the trek is finally over.

We were tired, this is our last night so we celebrated with all these sympatic people we met. We feel so good in this ecological farm that we would easily stay here for one or two weeks more…
The next morning we shared a taxi with John, Lucia, Katharina and Tania to go to the port to take the ferry.

We left for Granada and them in the direction of San Juan del Sur on the Pacific coast… After reflection on the boat, we changed our mind, we decided to join them. We arrived on the beach of surfers of Maderas where we spent the afternoon.

Then we went all together to get a dorm room in a hostel outside of San Juan Del Sur, with pool, beautiful view of the city and Buzz, a monkey spider, the mascot of the hostel!

The next day Rodrigo and Ana a Brazilian couple friend of our, came to join us. They are already on the road for over 3 years! Their goal, knowing all the American countries onboard of Fiona their car travel, check out their website:http://www.1000dias.com/. (in Portuguese). It had been a while since we talked about meeting on the road.

The next day we set off to spend the day on the beautiful private beach of Hermosas where we did bodyboard. It was a lot of fun!!

Last night, time to say good bye unfortunately arrived. One thing is sure, we made the right choice changing our plan to join them, it was just wonderful times we had with you guys that we won’t forget any soon!