Well we have arrived...
It all started with a nice -30 send off and no taxis availble from Calgary. Bl I hope you found the car ok!
We landed in Managua Nicaragua on Thursday...All I did was go to the washroom before going through customs and when I came out, Andrew had made friends with everyone in the line up of course, bt one particular man was going on about how we were ¨personas¨ and how we need to stick together etc...he tells the custom agent we are with him...I still don´t know anything more than this and I am a tad frantic as they are searching his bags...then he´s shouting for us to wait for him, wait for him. But he appears to be a local. I´m an frantically trying to ask Andrew under my breath what on earth is happening...turns out he is a native Nicaraguan turned Canadian for the last 20 years! This kind man takes us to meet his family and they shoo us over to the truck and we pile in the back...¨personas¨ we stick together us Canadians and help each other out!
They give us curb side service to Huembes Market where he helps negociate some exchange money and off they go...leaving us grateful and somehwat exhausted from the ordeal!
Our bus is a ¨decent¨ greyhound type that takes us direct to
San Juan Del Sur. The ride is noisy, smelly as per expected...as we near San Juan, the collector on the bus pays a visit...from what we can make out he wants money for his friend...our white skin is becoming a detriment to us here already! One can hardly blame them, but htere is a certain unease that we haven´t felt before....
San Juan turns out to be a lovely tourist town, we have wonderful fish and chips and gringo food in the market across from our simple and barely clean hostel. We find out from the locals that the turltes aren´t here yet...maybe tomorrow...maybe tomorrow...it was still ¨maybe tomorrow¨ when we left...maybe we will try to get there again before we leave.
We did go to the Da flying frog canopy tour...17 platforms 2.5km of cable...not as exhiliarating as you would think, but beautiful views of this magnificent land scape...it was fun all the same and we flew down the mountain side in our harnesses and stylish helmets 300 feet above tree tops in record time!
Our couple of days in San Juan have come to a close...
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