7/2/10 - day 60. got up about half 8, down to the market and bought 2 bags of melon for breakfast as i did the previous morning from the same woman. watched the chelsea vs arsenal game at 10am and after that went to the food fair for lunch. feeling really lazy (and quite deflated from the football result) so after eating a pile of meat i just lazed around in the pleasant surroundings of the hostel all day; reading in a hammock, using their internetand hangi...

6/2/10 - day 59. up at half 8 and went to the market just a block from the hostel where a bought a couple bags of melon fro breakfast. at 9am i left with monica, tomas and the 2 argentina girls id met in santa ana to go to los chorros de caderas. this is a series of waterfalls a couple km's walk away that we'd organised the day before as you need a guide to take you there for safety reasons. didnt actually go under the falls but they were moderately impress...

5/2/10 - day 58. got up at 8am, and went to catch what javier had told me was the 9am bus to, the awkward to pronounce, Juayua. it didnt leave til 9.45 and had a hardcore bible basher on it who stood up at the front for a full 30 minutes giving a hell of an animated performance that involved singing, praying and having a presumably fictional conversation, using a definitely fictional ear piece, with jesus. he was well annoying and very loud but what confused m...

4/2/10 - day 57. up at 7 to get the 8am bus to parque nacional los volcanos where there are 3 volcanoes, 2 of which you can climb. we were going to climb volcan santa ana which is the taller of the 2 at 2300 metres. me and 3 other swiss people from the hostel all went together and for the hike you had to have a mandatory guide and 2 policemen as assault apparently used to be a problem so you can no longer go alone. the hike started at 11am and took just over 3 ...

3/2/10 - day 56. woke up feeling awful. sick, dehydrated, hot and sweaty pretty much sums it up. got up about 10ish and me nick went into the centre to get breakfast. had a toilet attack on the way there, and it was a photo finish. had a big warm, saucey, beef salad sandwich for breakfast from a street vendor which made me feel better oddly enough. i was stopped in the central park by an ice cream vendor who really wanted to show me his collection f foreign coi...