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The Nicaraguan border

17/11/202528/05/2022 by Marcia

After two weeks in Honduras we felt it was time to go continue our journey South and go to Nicaragua. Now you can’t just drive up to border when it comes to Nicaragua. Ten days before you want to enter you have to fill out an immigration form. I don’t know … Read more

Bugs

17/11/202526/05/2022 by Marcia

We were camping at a lake not to far from Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. It was late afternoon and I was doing the last load of laundry, wanting to finish it before it would be dark. I noticed a group of moth like creatures flying just above my head. I … Read more

April 2022

17/11/202519/05/2022 by Marcia

After our not so fun experiences in Mexico in March, we needed time to think what to do. We drove to a campsite we had found through ioverlander to think. This was the first decent campsite we had come across. With working toilets, great showers, a pool, electricity available at … Read more

Honduras

17/11/202517/05/2022 by Marcia

After spending about a month in Guatemala, we drove in to Honduras early May. We had a slight hick up at the border as this was our first border where you can only pay in cash and not with a creditcard. And there were no atm’s either. We exchanged every … Read more

March 2022

17/11/202513/04/2022 by Marcia

So… was March better than February? Yes. But only slightly, as you can read below. At the beginning of March we went to Rio Lagartos where we saw some crocodiles in the mangroves near the ocean. Followed by a short trip to the yellow city Izamal with its Mayan pyramids … Read more

Las Aguas

17/11/202505/04/2022 by Marcia

We’ve visited Agua Azul and Agua Caliente, both in Chiapas. Agua Azul is a river, the Xanil, and a series of waterfalls where the water has an azure blue color. If it hasn’t been raining upstream that is. Which it had been doing for a couple of days so the water … Read more

Mayapan and Palenque

17/11/202503/04/2022 by Marcia

Both are ancient Mayan cities. Mayapan is situated in Yucatan, not to far away from Merida. It is considered the last great Maya capital, the last standing civilization before the Spanish arrived. It once had a population of about 12.000 people within its city walls. The city was founded around 1000 … Read more

Water

17/11/202514/03/2022 by Marcia

In the Netherlands you can drink water straight from the tap and it is of good quality. Most of the countries we have travelled through you could also drink the tap water but sometimes you could taste the chlorine. A lot of the countries also had free, clean drinking water … Read more

February 2022

17/11/202507/03/2022 by Marcia

So… February sucked! Fortunately it is a short month, as is this blog. After all the problems with the shipping of the van, Kilian finally arrived back in Cancun on Wednesday the 23rd. Just in time to celebrate his birthday the next day. Although we spend most of that day … Read more

January 2022

17/11/202502/02/2022 by Marcia

As you’ve already read in our December blog, we spend the first part of January driving to the harbor of Antwerp. We parked the van at a secure parking lot, from where it got driven on to the boat to Cancun at the 16th. We took the train to Tilburg. … Read more