These are a few shots from one of the most gorgeous places I've ever been to - San Pedro La Laguna on the Lago Atitlan.The Lago Atitlan is at an altitude of 1500m, and the lake is 320 m deep, making it the deepest lake in Central America, and a popular spot for altitude diving. San Pedro La Laguna is a small town on the lake... it's not as much of a tourist town as Panajachel (where they drop off ...
Photos from Antigua and the nearby Volcan Pacaya, which we did a day trip to.
I didn't do much in Antigua, but I'll write more later....
Check out the video Cale and Joel, my Aussie friends made.. that shows a bit better what the volcano was like than my...
So after spending a fantastic weekend in Tegucigalpa with CISVers, I headed to Utila, part of the Bay Islands off the Carribean coast of Honduras. The Bay Islands are famous for the cheapest scuba diving in the world - the perfect place for a penniless, ocean-addicted backpacker such as myself. Utila had a culture that seem so far removed from Honduran culture, it wasn't even funny. It seemed as t...
So after several days at the beach in San Juan del Sur, I hopped on a chicken bus and set out for Leon. Leon is a colonial town in northern Nicaragua, slightly more run down than Granada, but still very cute.
I stayed at the Big Foot hostel in Leon, where my friend Kim from SJDS was getting a job. Despite being new, the Big Foot hostel is well-known for its volcano boarding tour. So Cale, Joel (...
