Cities We've Been

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Rest of Central America

After Chris and Erin’s wedding, we lost some of our blogging mojo, but here is a quick wrap-up of the rest of our Central America trip; Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala.


- Hiking, kayaks, and riding horses with birds and monkeys at Charco Verde on Isla de Ometepe on Giant Lake Nicaragua; reminder there is more to riding a horse than left, right, and stop. Vana gets a bad case of traveler’s shoulder from pulling her busted suitcase down the dirt road.


- catching our breath in pleasant Granada, Nicaragua; beautiful Hotel El Club, one of our best finds yet.



- The joy of family food and hobbies; Aneilka’s Mom’s tamales and her Dad’s farm in Managua.

tamales in Nicaragua style - Nicamale!

New life on the farm

- Tagging along with two Israeli dive instructors from Managua to Utila, Honduras, and receiving expert travel assistance by skiff when the ferry is broken.


- Diving the crystal blue Caribbean on the north shore of Utila, with the sun and surf crashing above. Dive masters debate the names of fish while Vana edits pictures in the seaside bar.

puffer fish with crazy eye color

Shirmps

sea horse

giant moray

nudibrach


night dive

- Mayan ruins, friendly locals, and street eats in Copan, Honduras. - Scoping out the Spanish school scene in Antigua, Guatemala; loving the Yellow House with cheap clean rooms and awesome breakfast.


- after Kevin left. I studied Spanish in Antigua, Guatemala for 6 weeks. I had an amazing time there, made friends with locals and other international students! me gusta Antigua y Guatemala!

learning how to make tortilla from locals

mis amigos

hiking on active volcano, Pacaya. Amazing experience!

lovin Antigua

party in El Salvador during x'mas

6 comments:

Kevin and Vana said...

HI Vana,

Good to hear from you again. I checked out your Smugmug photos, which are amazing, and found out that you are in Middle East now! Wow. You guys have incredible life time experience tasting all these different continents, countries, cultures. It is fascinating.
Maybe one day when our son is an adult and independent and we save some money, my husband and I will be able to do some extensive traveling too :-) Meanwhile I will travel to all those countries through your blog. Keep it writing!

Otherwise nothing new. j2 still the same, actually getting worse.
This morning at 4am we were woken up by 4.4 earthquake, which scared me a little bit after hearing about all the big earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, Japan... Hopefully the big one will wait for couple of years.

Take care, say hi to your hubby and be careful!
Jana

Kevin and Vana said...

These are great pictures, thanks for sharing.
Are you ever, ever going to stop traveling

Have fun, be careful.

Darren

seth said...

that one of you and the live volcano is beyond epic!

Kevin and Vana said...

笑笑:你好!

好久没收到你的邮件了,只是听你妈妈说你去了埃及。今天又收到你的邮件,看到你在巴拿马等地的照片,看到你开心的笑脸,真高兴!

你现在还在周游列国吗?春天来了,正是四处走走的好时候。祝你旅途愉快,保重身体!


想念你的小姨

Kevin and Vana said...

笑笑,
近来可好?到了埃及没有呢?发点儿照片回来我看哈。
我和罗叔叔5月要来参加望舒的毕业典礼,若那时候你旅行完了就能看到你了。我想把奶奶带来,家里的全部人都反对,说是怕出危险。奶奶就是有个糖尿病还有就是有一只腿股骨骨折后按的一只假腿,其实我觉得完全没有多大的关系,只是路上要坐十几个小时的飞机可能比较恼火。但是所有的人都发对,主要是吕叔叔也不同意。所有,我真的是束手无策。
问候KAVIN,在埃及耍好哟。
你空的时候随时可以给我打电话15922929455,这是我的新手机号。
小孃孃

Kevin and Vana said...

笑笑,

虎年的第一天你出发去中东旅游, 一路上顺利吗 ? 己经到埃及了感觉怎样? 有什么好风景和当地民俗. 埃及是个很古老的国家, 有很多古文物, 建筑可参观。
希望你保重身体, 注意安全. 虎年吉祥如意。

妈妈 2/16