One of the reasons we were keen to head to this part of the Pacific Ocean (apart from the sea and beach of course) was that this time of year the giant Pacific Turtles come up to lay their eggs. So a guide was arranged with us and a bunch of American friends at our hostal and off we went at 10pm to see if the turtle would come out to meet us. This involved a long walk down a very dark beach, with the tide coming in, constantly making us run away to keep dry. Th...

Hello Pacific Ocean, we almost saw you a month ago in Guatemala on the 2250m high Indian Nose but you hid behind the clouds. However now we have travelled from Leon to Las Peñitas, a very beautiful but surprisingly deserted beach town with long sandy beaches, some cool chilled out hostels, surfer dudes aplenty and amazing sunsets. We arranged to stay in the hostal run by our Volcano surfing guides, with a taxi and beer also thrown in for the deal. So in Leon we...