Wow. Today was a doozy.
We woke up at 5.45 to ensure all of our stuff was packed and ready for the massive 12hrs ahead of us.
We started off with a 5hr bus ride with some stops along the way. Almost everyone slept until our 7.30 breakfast stop!
From there it was another 1.5hrs to a waterfall, along the way we played my music (we have a system where people get bullied to play their music) so everyone enjoyed the Taylor Swift and other embarassing Pop songs I had!
The waterfall was pretty but only 4 people went in, I think the rest of us didnt want to spend the next 8 hrs wet on a bus!
From there pretty much everyone slept until our first boarder crossing from Costa Rica to Nicaragua. It was a massive ordeal, we were lucky we were prepared with our exit taxes or we would have been waiting 2-3hrs in line for that. It took about 30mins to leave the country then we had to walk across the boarder!
The walk was only about 500 meters so not too bad, we got Ebola checked which was pretty exciting!!
The worst part was being stuck in "no mans land" for around 2hrs while Ricardo took our passports to process for our visas into Nicaragua.
Finally, after a few hours he returned back and we had to pass through the most unofficial immigration ever. 2 men in a uniform guarding a gate... which went into a market!!
The "Chicken Bus" or public bus was next. They use old American school busses and cram as many people as they can on. We got really lucky and all got a squishy seat. We were on there for an hour and saw the 2 volcanos of Ometepe.
After a 45 minute ferry ride we FINALLY arrived at our destination of the island of Ometepe at which we got to see an amazing sunset.
We met the families we are staying with and went home. Em and I are staying with a non english family which make chatting to them difficult. We ended up going to bed at 7.30 and watching Mamamia as we didnt know what else to do!
Tomorrow is going to be interesting ...
- K x
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