Note: Pics will become available in 2 days at the latest… this is about the time it takes to upload them ;)

Once again, sorry it took a while to post something new here but internet connections are just not too big in my favour in the places I visited… guess there´s no need to explain :)

San Juan Del Sur was big fun, and although the original plan was to connect to Isla Ometepe from here, I ended up meeting some very nice traveling companions which sort of caused me to change my plans (again ;)); we headed off to Granada, a large colonial city at Lago de Nicaragua. It´s a nice place and all and blablabla… see photos (to be posted) and locals seem especially friendly over here. We made a 2-day trip to a nearby lake called Lago de Apoyo, supposedly this contains the cleanest water in Nicaragua and it does look like a huge blue swimming pool from the lookout point we visited. The hike up there brought us to a village that had locals bullfights scheduled for the night… if only the bulls didn´t escape while we were there :D

Back in Granada we hooked up with locals, visited a school which is run on a voluntary babse where local kids learn to do all kinds of stuff to make some money. This includes breakdancing, really impressive. And … for the first time in my life I´ve been a real ´children´s friend´ as these did not seem to be afraid of me ;) Next day we visited Isla de Ometepe, an island consisting of 2 volcanoes in Lago de Nicaragua. The place looks like a picture from a fairytale book from a distance and its scenery (and local inhabitants) are really impressing. It keeps striking me this place is so different from what I´ve seen until now… hope these pics help explain so :)

Write soon again (hopefully)!!

Update 07-Dec: Forget about the pics for now, internet has barely been invented in the place I headed to (Jiquilillo)… I`ll soon put up a new post with lots of `em… promise! ;)