Dear all, what a trip! You cannot imagine how much effort it took us to do this trip - and basically because the information in the Lonely Planet is incomplete about this part of Colombia. So we had a small inside in how it used to be traveling before this guidebook existed (we summarize our experience below / last section of this blog entry). We have written you before that we were traveling together with Patricia and Juan, which was great because with fou...

Dear all, we had to take a hard decision: Go to Colombia by boat or by plane (over land is not advised)??? The sailing trip is supposed to be pretty..but it is the worst time of the year to do it because of strong winds. But the decision got easier when we met someone who had done the trip and told us that he was unable to distinguish ceiling from floor during the 3 days on the open ocean. So we decided for the plane... At the airport we met a spanish coupl...

Ola a todos, We just got back to Panama City after spending 3 days on the islands of the archipelago San Blas - or short the paradise. White sandy beaches, turquoise coloured water and a lot of sunshine. But that is not how our trip through Panama started... Because of the kind of horror stories we read about trekking in the national park Corcovado in Costa Rica we decided to give it a try elsewhere: across the border in Panama. Although we got up at arou...

Dear all, we would like to share a short funny story with you: In Granada (about two weeks ago) when we left the hotel to head for Ometepe we had quickly gone out for breakfast. When we came back we found that our bags had been opened (in the locked hotel room). We noticed it because some clothes from Maarten were lying on Annas backpack...Going through our valuables we could not identify anything missing. We told the owner anyways because we were sure someon...

Ola a todos, quite a bit to pick up on: So, we liked Nicaragua a lot and went to Leon. Leon is a colonial city, a little bit like Antigua and Granada, but more original. This means there are more Nicaraguans actually living in Leon than in the other cities just mentioned that have become expensive because of tourism. We stayed in a nice hostal outside town, run by a french couple. Good food, very pleasant place and just lovely. We enjoyed the environment and ...