PURA VIDA After Tamarindo we had to head to the capital, San Jose, in order to get anywhere else, so spent a day there enjoying the standard dirty, smelly, polluted and scary capital common (it seems) to all Central American countries. We did manage to arrange one of the things top of my (Matt) wishlist.... The following day we were picked up bright and early and driven to the the start of a section of the Pacuare river towards the carribean coast. We were fed...

Hey, So the map should show that after Granada we spent a night in San Juan Del Sur at the southwest tip of Nicaragua, just before the border. It had been recommended to us as a great place to surf and hang out, but annoyingly the Lonely planet write up of the town meant that prices were extortionate in order to do anything or to go anywhere with waves. We just chilled, had some rum, watched Nighmare on Elm Street in a bar (in spanish, which apparently doesnt m...