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  • Greg Clayton
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  • Daniel Tarpey

The Americas

Una aventura de 149 días de Greg & Daniel Leer más
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    Arriving in Panajachel

    24 de marzo de 2024, Guatemala ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    Our first impressions of Panajachel is a big market town, especially on a Sunday! The market stretched all of the way down the main street and all the way along the promenade.

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    Reserva Natural Atitlan

    24 de marzo de 2024, Guatemala ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    A 20 minute walk down the road from Panajachel is the nature reserve. There were a number of waterfalls and hanging bridges as well as coatis, monkeys and a butterfly garden. We spent a few hours exploring the trails here.Leer más

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    Indian Nose Hike

    25 de marzo de 2024, Guatemala ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    We then ascended further up the hills in an attempt to reach the top of the 'Indian's nose' (see the face in picture one). It takes around 2 hours, however we got a bit lost and confused by a locals directions, so whilst not quite making it to the top, we made it close enough.Leer más

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    San Marcos La Laguna

    25 de marzo de 2024, Guatemala ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    Our final stop of the day was another small lakeside town, this time with even narrower streets and probably the most laid back atmosphere of them all. We'd planned on going for a swim in the lake at the nearby nature reserve, however we arrived 30 mins before it closed so decided it probably wasn't worthwhile. We did however find a football pitch!

    On our way back to the ferry we could heard thunder and all of a sudden it started raining heavily, our first rain of the trip! We made it back across the lake on the ferry for some dinner and a quiet night ahead of an early start tomorrow.    Leer más

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    Arriving in El Salvador

    26 de marzo de 2024, El Salvador ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    Today has been another long day on the road and we've just entered El Salvador! We boarded our first bus in San Pedro at 5am which arrived back to Antigua at 8am. We had time for a McDonalds breakfast in a lovely McDonalds courtyard before boarding our second bus at 10am.

    Now on to Santa Ana! P.s. have you ever seen a $1USD coin before?!    Leer más

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    Ascending Volcan de Santa Ana

    27 de marzo de 2024, El Salvador ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    This morning was an early start for us to catch the bus to the trailhead of Volcan de Santa Ana! The only bus we could take left the Santa Ana station at 7:30am. We arrived at the station to discover a number of the people we shared a shuttle with yesterday as well as dozens of other backpackers, all inevitably headed for the volcano.

    The bus was old school and very full so we stood for almost all of the 1.5 hour journey.

    You can only hike the volcano with a guide for some reason and our tour group what around 40 people strong!

    After around 1.5 hours of steady ascent we approached the volcano crater, where for some reason there were around half a dozen armed army personnel.    Leer más

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    Santa Ana Volcano Crater

    27 de marzo de 2024, El Salvador ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    At the rim of the crater you can look down into the steaming emerald lake. The sulphur choked us at times but this didn't stop us enjoying a well earned pizza slice as we admired the view.

    Our descent was simple enough but our bus journey back was not as plain sailing. We had to wait over 2 hours for the irregular bus and when it arrived it was jam packed, and also temporarily broke down. But it cleared out soon enough and the bus moved much quicker descending downhill.

    We stopped off at the supermarket to pick up some ingredients for a home made tuna pasta as we enjoyed many Impractical Jokers compilations, a wonderful way to end the day!    Leer más

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    San Salvador - Liberty Plaza

    28 de marzo de 2024, El Salvador ⋅ ⛅ 33 °C

    This morning we had a bit of a lie in after a few consecutive early starts. We checked out of our Airbnb and took a 10 minute Uber to the bus station on the edge of town (at a cost of just $3!). From hear we boarded a local bus which was almost direct to El Salvador's capital city of San Salvador.

    After quickly checking into our Airbnb we headed out to join the 3pm walking tour.

    Our first stop being Liberty Plaza, the place where San Salvador was founded many years ago.    Leer más

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    San Salvador Cathedral

    28 de marzo de 2024, El Salvador ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C

    Our next stop was the cathedral, towering over the Civic Square. We also took a trip down to the crypt where Oscar Romero is buried, the national saint who was assassinated in 1980.

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    San Salvador - Best of the Rest

    28 de marzo de 2024, El Salvador ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C

    Other stops along the tour included the national library (donated by the Chinese), kilometre zero, Somasco El Calvario Church, the central market and national palace (home to the executive, legislature and judicial arms of the government).

    Our first impressions of San Salvador would definitely be a mixture of some great architecture but also still a lot of poverty. No surprise in a country that is still slowly eradicating its problems.    Leer más

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    National Library of El Salvador

    29 de marzo de 2024, El Salvador ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C

    Next up we paid a visit to the brand new National Library of El Salvador. The library sits across the main square from the cathedral and was 'donated' by the Chinese government, along with 3 other projects (a new national stadium, tourist pier and water treatment facility) costing $500m in total. By sheer coincidence, El Salvador no longer recognises Taiwan as its own state.

    The library was amazing and you had to queue to get in. Most of the floors where filled with kids books, games, activities and play areas. There were also numerous viewing decks, a cafe and a top floor Italian restaurant.    Leer más

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    Good Friday Procession

    29 de marzo de 2024, El Salvador ⋅ 🌙 28 °C

    Alas as darkness fell the procession took to the streets, led by the stations of the cross and followed by the coffin of Jesus amongst other religious figures. We let the procession pass through the crowds before saying our goodbyes to San Salvador as we have a very early start in the morning as we move on!Leer más

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    Entering Nicaragua

    30 de marzo de 2024, Nicaragua ⋅ ☀️ 38 °C

    After just over 9 hours on the coach we arrived at the Nicaraguan border! Despite the border not being very busy it seemed to take ages as we had to scan our bags, wait for our passports to be returned and then provide our vaccination history, all at separate stations! Eventually we ticked all of the boxes and were back on the road.Leer más

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    Arriving in Leon

    30 de marzo de 2024, Nicaragua ⋅ 🌙 31 °C

    After catching a taxi from the bus terminal we arrived at our hostel! We quickly checked in before heading out for burgers. We were also able to catch a glimpse of Leon at night which was very impressive! We then returned to our hostel to observe part of karaoke night and to have a few drinks.

    I've also realised that today is my 151st day on the road, which marks pretty much exactly the half way point, on the home stretch now...    Leer más

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    Morning at Poco a Poco

    31 de marzo de 2024, Nicaragua ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C

    We'd had a long day on the road yesterday and a big afternoon ahead of us so we had a relaxed morning at our hostel, only leaving to pick up some groceries. It was also Man City v Arsenal so we watched this on the hostel terrace!Leer más

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    Volcano Boarding - The Build Up

    31 de marzo de 2024, Nicaragua ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C

    Just after lunch we headed to Bigfoot Hostel, a hostel world renowned for its volcano boarding tours!

    In the hostel reception they displayed some of the news/tourism outlets they have hosted over the years. Hung on the wall was the board used by a Mexican man who holds the volcano boarding speed record of 101kmh from a run in 2019.

    Here we became part of a group of backpackers around 50 strong and boarded a bus to the volcano. The bus was pumping loud music throughout and we made it to the volcano after around 1.5 hours.

    We then ascended the volcano with our board which took around an hour including 3 stops.    Leer más

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    Volcano Boarding

    31 de marzo de 2024, Nicaragua ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C

    It was now time to suit up and and take the quick route down! We didn't want to be the first people up down but definitely didn't want to be the last so I went about 10th and Dan shortly after.

    It was great fun and definitely a unique experience! The fastest speed for our day was 80kmh (although the girl did go flying off her board) which it's fair to say me and Dan didn't quite match but we still had fun!

    We could then watch the sunset from the bottom of the volcano before saying goodbye and boarding the bus once again.    Leer más

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