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  • Day 198

    Awards

    November 20, 2015 in Mexico ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    Favourite place: 1st = Galapagos; 2nd = Caye Caulker, Belize; 3rd = Bay Islands, Honduras.

    Least favourite town: 1st = Foz du Iguazu, Brazil; 2nd = La Paz, Bolivia; 3rd = Uyuni, Bolivia.

    Worst for mosquitos: 1st = Holbox, Mexico; 2nd = Utila, Honduras.

    Best coconuts: Tulum ruins, Mexico.

    Best ice cream: 1st = Tulum; 2nd = Cartagena, Columbia; 3rd = Paraty, Brazil.

    Best chocolate: 1st = homemade bars in chocolate workshop, Nicaragua; 2nd = Roatan chocolate shop.

    Best street food: Mancora, Peru.

    Best food: 1st = Caye Caulker; 2nd = Mancora; 3rd = Rio.

    Best cup of coffee = Cartagena.

    Best overall coffee = Nicaragua.

    Worst coffee = Ecuador (served instant!!!).

    Best beer: 1st = El Inca, Bolivia; 2nd = Cusquena negra, Peru; 3rd = Club Colombia, Columbia.

    Best range of good beers = Mexico.

    Favourite accommodation: 1st = Kimba's bungalows, Mancora, Peru; 2nd = Tropical Paradise, Caye Caulker; 3rd = Arenal, Costa Rica.

    Worst accommodation: 1st = salt plains tour, Bolivia (freezing); 2nd = lionfish hostel, Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica (bat cave); 3rd = albatross, Galapagos (first experience of cockroaches, mice & ants); 4th = Mango Inn, Utila (smelt of wee).

    Place we'd like to move to: 1st = Caye Caulker; 2nd = Roatan, Honduras; 3rd = Cartagena.

    Hottest place = Cartagena.

    Coldest place = Bolivia.

    Best beach: 1st = Playa Blanca, Cartagena; 2nd = West Bay, Roatan, Honduras; 3rd = North beach, Isla Mujeres, Mexico; 4th = San Blas islands.

    Most expensive country = Ecuador.

    Cheapest country = Peru.

    Top memories (in a sort of order, but hard to decide):
    Galapagos
    Iguazu falls
    Machu Picchu
    Caye Caulker snorkelling
    Amazon & pampas
    Salt plain tour
    San Blas sailing, esp breakfast storm
    Turtle laying eggs in storm & hanging sloth, Costa Rica
    Pucara ruins & wild west landscape, Argentina
    Thunderstorm in Bocas del Toro
    Thermal springs, Honduras
    Whale watching, Ecuador
    Dawn chorus at Tikal ruins
    Hummingbird garden, Argentina
    Surgery, Peru
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