Just Muddling Through Life

     So if you’ve been reading my blog lately at all, you might have noticed that I’ve been off travelling through Central America for the past month. I mean, you know, there’s only been about a dozen posts about…

Costa Rica is just bursting with activities to do! Like Monteverde, La Fortuna isn’t a big, exciting city, but is a good base for activities. There were so many on offer it was hard to know what to pick! Unfortunately,…

     Higher and higher, up rocky, winding roads, with spectacular mountain views all around. Monteverde is famed for its cloud forest, a jungle so high up it sits in the cloud layer, and is home to an abundance of…

     Two vast, active volcanos rising out of a lake so huge, it feels more like an ocean. This was home for two nights, on the island of Ometepe, in Lake Nicaragua. The volcanos, Concepción and Maderas, are joined…

     We had two very, very long travel days before reaching Granada, including crossing the border from Honduras to Nicaragua. Eventually we arrived mid-afternoon, so there was still some time to explore the city. There’s lots of colourful buildings…

     Another island playground! From Copan, we travelled to the coast to catch the ferry to the island of Roatán. The ferry ride was not everyone’s favourite journey, as the sea was pretty choppy, which led to some queasy…

     Here we are in Honduras for the next few days! Antigua to Copan is a fairly long drive, so we set off at 4am, to avoid the traffic through Guatemala City and cut down the waiting time at…

     Well we actually got to see Antigua this time around, no road accidents to hold us up this time! Unfortunately, as soon as we arrived, around lunch time, it decided to pour down with rain! Antigua is a…

     Technically, there was a night spent in Antigua prior to these two days. I was intending to write about that in my Antigua post, after we return there, however, there was a road accident on the way, which…

     Hola Guatemala! A new day, a new country! We crossed the border between Belize and Guatemala, taking a private van, before driving on towards Tikal. It’s not far from the border, but sits near a vast lake, Lake…