Ruta de Las Flores – Adventures in El Salvador
The Ruta de Las Flores is supposedly the number one tourist attraction in El Salvador’s burgeoning tourist scene. That being said, we still hardly saw any other foreigners traveling it! The route includes three small towns up in the coffee-growing hills of western El Salvador. Good food, quaint markets, and beautiful scenery were the highlights. […]
Laguna Verde Guest House in Apaneca, El Salvador
Laguna Verde Guest House in Apaneca, El Salvador Laguna Verde Guest House is located in a quiet and rural setting up the road from Apaneca, El Salvador. It’s on he Ruta de las Flores which is one of the biggest tourist attractions in El Salvador and is packed full of rolling green hills, delicious coffee, […]
The Isla Ometepe – A Volcanic Paradise in Nicaragua
The Isla Ometepe is a magical place in Lago Nicaragua full of animals, beautiful flowers, friendly local people, and great hiking. Unfortunately we were only able to spend a couple days on the twin islands, but in that time we were able to see a lot. Both volcanoes are about the same height, about 1,600 […]
Volcano Boarding Nicaragua Style
Cerro Negro, the youngest volcano in Central America, began forming in 1850 with its first eruption. Since then there have been 11 more eruptions forming the ever-growing volcano that stands 726 meters tall today. Eventually some guys from Australia made up this thing called “volcano boarding” which involves sitting on a wooden board and sliding […]
2/3 of our South American Travel Highlights – Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador
So, due to our crazy schedule changes, we’re actually past the 2/3 mark on our trip :-(. But, since we just left South America and are heading to Central, we figured now would be the most logical time to do our “Close-enough-to-2/3rds” superlatives! Days in South America: 168 Dollars Spent (not including flight): Countries Visited: […]
Quilotoa Loop, Part 4: You Probably Will Think That This Is Gross
So this tale starts on day three, after Carrie’s knee gave out and we almost had to sleep with the llamas. We were so hungry from not eating lunch, luckily our hostel (it should have been called a HOTEL since it was the most expensive place we had stayed so far on this trip. Hooray […]
Quilotoa Loop, Part 3: Chugchilan to Laguna Quilotoa…and back.
Some days you just don’t have any luck. This was one of them. After the previous day’s 14km, we were not super excited for another big hike. We heard that walking from Chugchilan to Laguna Quilotoa was pretty grueling, with a 900m elevation gain, but that there were buses there that we could take and […]
Quilotoa Loop, Part 2: Ecuador Hiking from Isinlivi to Chugchilan
After a wonderfully healthy and filling breakfast at Hostal Llullu Llama, we headed out for our second day on the Quilotoa Loop, Ecuador hiking. We had some directions from the hostel, which we had been making fun of the night before (with a guy who had just done the hike in reverse). There were many lines […]
The Cañon del Colca and Our Big Day
We left Arequipa in the morning and the road worked its way northward, past Volcán El Misti and the other snow-covered peaks, and out into the open country. There were many local people on our bus, which is normal, but the women were dressed differently than how we were used to, more colorfully with tons […]
Inca Trail: Day Four
The horrifying hour of 4am came WAY too soon. We had been dead to the world in our unexpected hostel bed and trying to pull ourselves out of bed was extremely difficult. Not only because of how tired we were, but because our leg muscles were practically incapable of motion after the grueling 22km of […]