Home sweet home.

After 25 hours of flying, 11 hours of layovers and 1 missed flight, we are home at last! Unfortunately we both feel like the holiday was short (even though it wasn't) and wish that we were still overseas! Still, it is nice to come home to good weather and we're looking forward to hitting the beaches over the coming weekends.

Hope you have enjoyed sharing our travels with us, see you around!

Mel and Sam.

Another photos post

Sandboarding on Volcano Cerro Negro, Nicaragua

Parque Central in Leon, Nicaragua

View over Granada, Nicaragua from the bell tower of La Merced church

The route to get to the beach, Ometepe Island, Nicaragua. The cows were still there on the way back too.

Ometepe Island from a hammock

The scariest thing we have done so far on the trip- boat ride back from Ometepe Island. It involved huge waves (despite the fact that we were on a lake- albeit a very, very big lake), a crazily rocking boat, far too many people (I was one of many sitting on the floor) and when we got back into port, there was no room at the dock! So we had to climb from out boat to another boat, then from that boat to the dock using these walkways and "hand railings"- that meaning planks of wood held at each end by the boat staff!

 Zip lining in Monteverde, Costa Rica

Hi everyone! Here we are, almost at the end of our trip in what will probably be one of the last posts for our blog. 6 weeks has gone ridiculously fast and neither of us wants to come back home! So much has happened that I don´t feel like I can really write about it so it´s just a photos post this time.

At the moment we´re in La Fortuna, Costa Rica. Tonight we´re visiting a hot springs spa resort (it´s a hard life) and tomorrow a horse riding trip to a waterfall for a swim. Day after that, it´s on to San Jose then home =(

It´s been an awesome trip, ups and downs of course and a few minor illnesses but, overall, I can´t really complain! Only 3 more sleeps...wah.

No, gracias.

Happy new year! Since leaving Antigua (for the second time) we headed to Copan for our one day stop in Honduras, then to Suchitoto for our one day stop in El Salvador. We've come back to the heat and warm weather, especially now that we're in Nicaragua.

We stayed in Leon for 3 nights and spent one day hiking up Cerro Negro Volcano to sandboard down. You could choose standing or sitting and we opted for sitting, since the people said it was harder than snowboarding and we've never even tried that. Turned out to be a smart idea and one of the people who stood ended up with a gigantic hole in the bum of his shorts from falling and sliding down. The people sitting had these little jumpsuits to protect us a bit but they were a couple short and one of the guys in our group who voluteered to go without one ended up taking a huge chunk of skin off both his forearms!

We had New Years Eve party on a private island which had a party with about 100 people. It was sucha  beautiful spot but so awkward to get to (and even more awkward to get away from). Totally isolated and really quiet- it had a backpackers on it but some of the girls staying there who we knew said that they'd had the place to themselves for the last 3 days!

Today we bused over to Granada, which seems to be a nicer city than Leon, with a good restaurant district that I'm looking forward to testing out! Here for 3 nights before going to Ometepe Island for a couple of nights which I'm looking forward to.

Can't believe the trip is nearing it's end already! Only 10 days before we leave :(

Pictures to come later when I have my USB converter thingymajiggy with me.