Tadpat on the way

Yeah!!!!!!!
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We found our first sloth, actually Patrick found it. We only had the Information that from time to time there is a sloth wandering around this area!
It was sleeping in front of our hostel and we waited for it to get up!!!! We were standing there and watching it eating and scratching itself for 2 hours. Then it went into the thicket of trees!

Because I (Taddy) was so excited and needed to "run" on toilet I stumbled over my own feet and destroyed my pants.
That will remind me evertime on my first sloth in Costa Rica.

With full of joy and happiness

Tadpat

Hola amigos!

Finally we arrived in Costa Rica. We spend a few days more in Nicaragua because we met super nice people in San Juan del Sur!

But from the beginning.... our first stop was Leon. Famous for it's Vulcano boarding. We didn't went there with a tour which was quite difficult but we managed it and boarded down twice because it's such fun. Also we went to the beach relaxing and 'dipping' in the cold pacific water! Waves were too strong for swimming... Our overnight camping at vulcano Telica was different than expected. Because of high activity we needed to camp in the forest, few meters down and away from the crater! But no explosion happened that night.
Next stop was Masaya, an untouristic town next to an aktiv vulcano. (Nothing really special any more! Haha) there we went to the Handicraft market and to the local one, to a small national park called Chocoyero, we climbed vulcano Mombacho and had incredible bad weather (but were still lucky that the rain started at the end of our trail...)! But didn't find the 2 sloths which some parc rangers saw the same morning. And also we did a daytrip to Granada, nice and touristic but nothing mind blowing :-)
After Masaya we went to Ometepe Island. This is an Island formed from two vulcanos. Nice to relax a while and meet some locals.
In San Juan del Sur we stayed longer than expected, as I already said in the beginning. Partytown and beaches... :-) and super nice Austrians, Lena (translated from spanish: firewood) and Daniel. Thanks guys for making us laugh.

Now we're in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Still searching for sloths.... maybe this time we're lucky....

Big hugs from Costa Rica.

Cheers

Alrighty guys,

Time to resume Honduras, statisticly the most dangerous country in the world. Why? Because there are two gangs fighting each other... no effect on tourist. And when you walk around with open eyes, also stealing is no issue.
Actually we had one of the best time of middle america in Honduras!
So we started in Comayagua. The road was terrible, because it was in construktion... 3 and a half hour a bumpy dirtroad! In 2018 the road should be finished...
Comayagua is a nice little city with a beautiful central park and the church has one of the oldest clocks in america and the funny thing: the ONLY one which still works :-)
From Comayagua we did some daytrips to Marcala, a nice Lenca hilltown, we went to a trek called Tenampua, which was really hard to find and we didn't reach the end, because it was too dangerous, and also we did a daytrip to Lago Yojoa enjoing the view and a cool breeze.
After Comayagua we went to Gracias. Also a Lenca town, close to National Park Celaque, where we were trakking for a day. Also we went to La Campa which is famous for its Extreme Canopy! Uffff! 350 meters high jumping in a gorge and trusting the equiment! :-) It was great fun and beautiful on the same hand. In Gracias itself was a little festival and every evening there were playing some music acts.
Our next stop was Siguatepeque. Nothing special about this town, but we met a friend there and with him we also visited the north coast for a day and had delicious seafood!
Next step was back to the south, but this time we took the road through Tegucigalpa, to go to San Lorenzo. From there we visited Honduras only Vulcano, Isla del Tigre as a daytrip. We had a delicious fish and went back to San Lorenzo. The next day we wanted to cross the border, but because we didn't had Internet in San Lorenzo we didn't know about the fees at the border. So we went to the next city, Choluteca searching for informations. When we got all informations, it was already too late... also it was sunday... Sunday isn't a day to move to the next place, because almost everybody is drunken from the morning on! Ok, so we were searching for a hostel and found a quite good one!
Next day we crossed the border to Nicaragua, where we are now!

I'm sorry for still having no pictures... so I took a shoot from the camera with the tablet! :-)

A street in beautiful hilltown marcala.


One of the bands playing in Gracias.


The starting point of the canopy.


And last with Jesus and Kim at the beach.



Stay safe! :-)

Tadpat

Hi guys,
After Guatemala we went to El Salvador. Small country, big population, fascinating landscape and a hughe history (not so long time ago....).
In El Salvador we started in Cara Sucia. That's spanish and significates dirty face! The town itself small and unspectacular! But from there we went to the National Park El Impossible.
We have some theories why they called the park like that.
1. The forest is so dense that it is impossible to go off the trails and into the jungle
2. Or because it's impossible to see a lot of wildlife (especially pumas or other cats)
3. Or maybe because it is almost impossible to reach the park with puplic transportation. :-)
But we made it and we've been the only ones in the park. We heard some animals in the bushes and even saw an amadrillo! Super cool and amazing nature!

The next stop was La Libertad on the seaside. The beaches are not really for swimming, because they are rocky and high waves also there is no shadow on the beach! But we had fun watching the surfers and the ones who wanna learn surfing.

Because it's super hot there we decided to go up in the montains a little. The town we were heading to is called Alegria. But we only made into the neighbourtown which was also nice and the hotelprices were cheaper! :-) So we went to Alegria and Berlin as daytrips. YES, we've been in Berlin! :-)

One of our favourite stops was San Francisco de Gotera. A nice authentic town and close to Perquin. In Perquin we went to learn about El Salvadors history. Super sad why and what happend and you can still see the bomb craters!!! If your interested there's a lot information in the internet (for example the massacre in El Mozote)!!!

In El Salvador we had super delicious food. Fresh fish and PUPUSAS. We love them. It's like a small pancake stuffed with something (normally cheese and beens! We also had fish, other vegetables and shrimps) Yummi.

Now we're in Honduras. Internet is not in all hotels accessible but soon we'll go to Nicaragua we'll see about Internet situation there!

Cheers,

Tadpat.

Since we didn't had a computer to connect with the tablet, no photos yet!