Howdy!
I’m in San Juan Del Sur at the moment and my pictures are taking forever to upload. I’ll put as many as can up on my Flickr page and the rest will have to wait until I get to another internet cafe once I leave San Juan Del Sur.
The town of San Juan Del Sur is a bit of a backpacker’s ghetto. White college students with dreadlocks and expensive backpacks walk the streets with tired eyes and different degrees of sunburn. Pizza places and sandwich shops seem to occupy every other storefront. Organic smoothie shops. Surf shops. Clothing boutiques. There’s even a solar powered internet cafe.
Not much about San Juan Del Sur feels very Nicaragua-ish. Instead it feels as if a chunk of England/Australia/America has been dropped down on top of a once-quiet fishing village.
So I’m not staying in San Juan Del Sur.
Instead, I’m staying just off the beach in a small cove 10 kms outside of town at a place called Maderas Beach. For $4 a night, I’m camping on the sand 150 meters from the water. The cove is serene and undeveloped. I’m going to stay here for a week to relax and try to flush the exhaustion from my body.
My trip to San Juan Del Sur was absolutely insane. I’m going to spend time this week writing about it and other things that have happened recently. Because there is no internet and barely intermittent electricity out at the cove, I’m going to wait to put more posts up until I leave the beach and make my way into the next town down the road.
Hope everyone had a great New Years!
Andrew
Posted in Bike trip: Nicaragua
