I Leon, Nicaragua nåede vi at tage på tur til vulkanen Cerro Negro som man kan surfe ned ad. Man kan vælge om man vil sidde på kælk eller stå på surfbræt, men da ingen af os er overdrevet erfarne surfere valgte vi at kælke ned. Det var en smuk tur, som startede ud med en 1,5 times gåtur op ad vulkanen, lidt vandring rundt på toppen hvor man kunne se damp komme op af jorden og forskellige lag af lava, og til sidst turen ned som tog cirka ét minut. Vi er glad for vi valgte at kælke ned, for man fik pænt meget fart på alligevel, og de som havde valgt at surfe ned kørte til sidst og var yderst ynkelige at se på, så denne ydmygelse slap vi for.
Det var svært at få ordenlige billeder af selve kælkningen, men man kan billedgoogle 'volcano boarding leon' og selv forestille sig Søren og jeg kælke dér. Nedenfor er der dog lidt billeder som jeg tog med min telefon på vejen op.
I Leon var vi også heldige at finde en rigtig god restaurant hvor man kunne få vegansk (!) mad - det skulle selvfølgelig udnyttes når maden i Mellemamerika ellers generelt er yderst veganeruegnet, så vi endte med at spise der to gange selvom det var en smule dyrt.
Derefter gik turen videre sydpå til Costa Rica med bus. Turen var lang, og vi havde på forhånd besluttet at kun tage én overnatning i San José, hovedstaden, fordi der er dyrt, så jeg håber ikke vi gik glip af det helt vilde. Dagen efter tog vi så videre med natbus til Panama City, og taxachaufføren prøvede også her at snyde os ved at tage os til et meget dyrt hotel først, selvom vi sagde vi skulle på et billigt hostel. Han blev lidt frustreret over at skulle køre en ekstra tur, men mest fordi hans bil var sænket så undervognen skrabede mod alle bumpene i de gader han havde taget os ud i. Se, så kan man lære at ikke sænke sin bil for at se smart ud.
Vi endte heldigvis på et rigtig godt hostel som havde egen bar og gratis cykler man kunne bruge. Fedt, tænkte vi, for så kunne vi lige drøne ud og kigge på Panamakanalen, og efter 7 måneder væk hjemmefra har jeg virkelig også savnet at cykle. Men nej, det var en dårlig plan, for ikke nok med at byen er total cykeluegnet kunne man heller ikke komme ud til kanalen, da der kun var motorvej i den retning. Da vi kom tilbage til hostelet ville vi så undersøge hvordan vi kunne komme derud med bus, men fik at vide, at bussen ikke stopper, men barer kører direkte hen over broen. Vi endte så med at se kanalen fra en sluse lidt længere væk fra byen, som også var det hele værd. Vi nåede lige at se et containerskib blive trukket gennem slusen ved hjælp af små tog på begge sider.
Turen hjem gik helt perfekt og smertefrit bortset fra et lille økonomisk problem, så vi er nu hjemme i lille Danmark igen.
Det har været nogle helt fantastiske 7 måneder af mit liv som jeg aldrig vil glemme, og jeg har oplevelser nok til mange år. Jeg vil gerne takke jer som har holdt ud og læst med på bloggen - i skrivende stund har den fået knap 2100 besøg !
KH Niels
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In Leon, Nicaragua we made it for a trip to the volcano Cerro Negro which you can surf down from. You can choose to sit on a toboggan or surf on a regular surf board, but as neither of us are super advanced surfers we chose to hop on the toboggan. It was a beautiful trip which started out with a 1.5hr hike to the top, a little walk on the top where you can see steam coming up from the ground and different kinds of layers of lava, and in the end, the boarding down which took about one minute. We're glad we chose the toboggan cause it went pretty fast anyway, and those who chose to surf down went after everyone else and looked extremely pathetic, so we were free from this humiliation. It was difficult to get any proper pictures from the ride down, but you can google image 'volcano boarding leon' and imagine Søren and I in those pictures. Below, there's a few photos from the hike that I took with my phone on the way up.
In Leon we were also lucky to find a really good restaurant where you could get vegan (!) food - of course, we had to take advantage of that as the food in Central America is extremely non vegan friendly, so we ended up eating there twice although it was a little pricy.
After that we went on south to Costa Rica by bus. The trip was long and we had already decided to only stay one night in San José, the capital, because it's expensive, so I don't hope we missed out a whole lot. The next day we went on to Panama City, and also here the taxi driver tried to rip us off and first taking us to a very expensive hotel although we asked for a cheap hostel. He got quite frustrated from having to give us an extra ride, but mainly because his car was lowered so the bottom of the car scraped on all the speed bumps that were in that part of town. See, that's what you get for having to look cool.
Luckily, we ended up staying at a really nice hostel that had its own bar and bicycle you can use for free. Great, cause then we could go on a ride to the Panama Canal and have a look, and after 7 months away from home I really missed riding a bicycle. But no, that turned out to be a terrible plan cause not only is the city super non bicycle friendly but also there's only highways in that direction. When we got back to the hostel we wanted to see how we could take a bus to get there, but apparently no buses stop there - they all just cross the bridge. Then we ended up having to see the canal from a sluice a little further away from the city, which was all worth it. We got there just in time to see a container ship being pulled through the sluice by few little trains on each side.
The trip home went just perfect and without complications except from a minor financial problem, but now we're back home in little Denmark again.
It's been 7 really fantastic months of my life that I will never forget, and I've had enough experiences for many years. I want to thank each and everyone who's been holding on and reading my blog - in the moment of writing it has had almost 2100 hits !
Best, Niels
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