Lanquin tubing

The hostel I was staying at in Lanquin was a good place, especially once they gave me a bed.  It's called the Zephyr and had a great vibe as well as cheap beer, good food and a fantastic view.

My second day in Lanquin I went tubing down the river.  It was pretty much the same crew who went on the cave tour the day before, but with hangovers.  It was an easy 3 beer trip though, so a relaxing way to spend an afternoon recovering from the beers, shots, limbo and twister from the night before.

I would love to have had time to spend another day or two in Lanquin hanging out at the pools and such, but los peresozos need to have their poo cleaned up by me soon, so I was back on the road again. 

Another 9hrs back to Guatemala, a missed bus and overnight stay in a hotel that looked like something out of a horror flick (nearly as bad as the Rosedale hotel).  Then a 24hr bus trip in the second class bus, including 3 border crossings throughout the night, being stopped for another 1/2 hour for a random bus search, and at the last border an El Salvador passport nazi who didn't want to let me through because some doodle 3 borders ago had stamped my passport incorrectly.

And then I was only in Managua, 3 hours away from my destination.  So then I got a taxi with a mad old lady who kept yelling at the taxi driver, me and random people on the street.  I got out at the bus port to be absolutely mobbed by guys trying to take my bag and lead me to their bus.  So I blew up, left them fighting - literally, over my bag and just went back to the taxi.  So the nice taxi man sorted it out for me and I got on another shitty bus for a couple of hours.  Then I met an american couple and we decided to split a cab, except I went to the wrong place and then had to catch a cab back.  The cabby was playing this crap rap, mixing songs like 'do ah diddee diddee dum diddee dee' - you know the one, with new words about getting pussy, sucking cock and shit like that.  It was so bad and he played it so loud, and I just agreed when he said it was good, so he tried to give me the cd!

So finally I got on a ferry over to the Isle of Ometepe.  It's a nice looking island.  It has 2 volcanos, one live and puffing up smoke and the other is extinct and has a lagoon in the top and cloud forest.  Tomorrow I climb to the top of the live one.  Should be cool.