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San Juan del Sur – We got stuck…
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 11 April 2011
San Juan del Sur is somewhere we planned to stop for a few nights and ended up staying nearly a week, and I still can’t quite put my finger on why. It might have been the relief to be out of the very expensive but lovely Costa Rica, it could be that we both love [...]
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Playa Maderas – Nicaraguan Beach Life
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 6 April 2011
Playa Maderas was our first stop in San Juan del Sur. It is about 10km from the main town and although we opted to stay there overnight it is a great option as a day trip. It costs US$15 by taxi and there is also a shuttle that runs from town three times a day. [...]
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Sorry, Travel Snobs: San Juan Del Sur Is Amazing
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 4 December 2009
It’s weird, the way people can look at the same thing and see something so different. We were on our way to Costa Rica, we weren’t yet ready to leave Nicaragua and we badly needed a break. We thought that one of the Pacific coastal villages would be best, and we decided that San Juan [...]
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San Juan del Sur - Nicaragua
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 3 December 2009
Making our way from Ometepe we headed for Rivas bus station to get a bus to San Juan del Sur. Getting a bus from a bus station is a pretty normal thing to do. But when you have a crowd of taxi drivers telling you a variety of things like the bus doesn't leave for hours, or it takes many hours to get there, you almost start to think you're doing something abnormal! And my disinterested looks and short firm answers they took for haggling. Their price must have halved and halved again, but what they didn't seem to understand was that its not a long journey and we really weren't in a rush.
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