A busy, but organised border crossing was our first clue that Costa Rica was going to be very different. We had arranged for the TransNicca bus to drop us off in Liberia (about 3 hours short of San Jose) so we could grab a local bus over to the surf town of Tamarindo. Arriving at Tamarindo was like a flash back of Utila but instead of diving shops littering the streets it was surf, surf, surf!! The consistent Pacific breeze and huge sandy beaches makes for the...

After flying back to Managua we had to spend a night back in Granada due to timing and to give us a chance to plan leaving Nicaragua and heading to Costa Rica. We returned to Hostel Oasis and although only planning on staying the one night we were talked into visiting Laguna de Apoyo by Fiona, an English girl we met on our last night on Ometepe. So stayed two! Laguna de Apoyo was amazing it is a huge lake (7km diameter) formed in the cone of a massive volcano...

Ok so you may have noticed I visit a lot of islands! In Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Ometepe and now Little Corn. The people the weather the diving and just being surrounded by water, be it sea or lake there is just something about island life that speaks to me! Often on this trip of mine the journey has been just as important as the destination, getting to the Corn Islands was no exception. We could have taken a long bus to Bluefields on the Caribbean coast a...

A fairytale land created when two volcanoes rose out of Largo de Nicaragua and joined together to form the world's largest freshwater island, that is how Isla de Ometepe had been described to me by countless people and books. Jodie, Liann and I had to check it out. The perfect cone shape of Volcan Conception grew closer and more dominant on the landscape during the scenic four hour ferry from Granada across Largo de Nicaragua to Ometepe. We arrived at Altag...

Granada was next on our list so we (The Canadian girls, Liann and I plus a Scotish girl called Jodie that we met in Bigfoot) all headed off from Leon to Granada via Nicaragua's capital, Managua. The city of Granada is perched on the edge of Largo de Nicaragua, a huge freshwater lake in the middle of the country. Although there were a number of hostels in town there was one on the outskirts that stood out for us all, Poste Rojo - the tree house hostel! Built in...