There are 2 ways to get to The Corn Islands off the east coast of Nicaragua. The first one is a 6hr bus, then a 4 hr boat then another 4 hr ferry. The second is fly, from Managua, which takes just over an hour. The second is obviously twice as much as the first, and as we are counting our pennies, so we swayed with that option but in the end we decided to fly and never looked back! The islands, consist of a big one and a little one, we decided on the little one...

After leaving the girls we slipped back into our more uncertain means of travel. What I mean by this is we rocked up to the bus stop and asked a few questions and crossed our fingers, hoping that a bus would go where we wanted to go. Most buses tend to go when they're full and that didn't take too long. Our plan was to head north, back to Nicaragua and spend some time there. We got a bus, a boat and another bus and ended back in Liberia, which was a lot livelie...