We’ve lived in Costa Rica for nearly 6 years and have only crossed the border into Nicaragua once! Grant and I had first visited in 2018 while backpacking Central America and then once we moved to Costa Rica we went […]
I had been wanting to visit Ometepe for years! Grant and I were supposed to go on our 2018 backpacking trip through Central America but plans changed when my grandmother passed away. Then we were going to visit when I […]
Nicaragua is a must stop when traveling through Central America. It has a variety of landscape and activities. Part of its charm is that it is less popular and touristy than Costa Rica and Guatemala. It still seems a bit […]
We expected San Juan del Sur to be a cool Nicaragua surf town, but we did not expect it to be a such a great party spot with fantastic food and shopping options. We expected to like San Juan del […]
After a long journey from Antigua, we arrived in Granada, Nicaragua! The city is pretty with its Spanish colonial influence but it also has a Caribbean flair (despite it being closer to the Pacific side.) Granada reminded me a lot […]
Total Time: 19 hours (plus overnight stops in El Tunco and Leon) Total Cost: $81 ($65 shuttle + $16 border crossing fee) Getting from Antigua, Guatemala to El Tunco, El Salvador We used Gekko Explorer Shuttles to book our trip. […]