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 flag   Route Map    Rio San Juan to El Castillo, Nicaragua   »  December 15, 2012

San Carlos, 7:50. I am boarding a panga to El Castillo. It's a slow ride. Tere are two boat services to San Juan del Nicaragua, which is also called San Juan del Norte. Another name is Greytown. I think these were two merged into one settlings.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  El Castillo, Nicaragua → Boarding the panga.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  El Castillo, Nicaragua → All ready to go.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  El Castillo, Nicaragua → And we are moving! It will be about two and a half hours to El Castillo.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  El Castillo, Nicaragua → I wouldn't say the boat ride is very exciting in comparison to let's say Mekong in Vietnam and Cambodia, or other boat trips in South East Asia. But it's OK.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  El Castillo, Nicaragua → There pass some dwellings along the way.

San Carlos - Nicaragua

Photo:  San Carlos, Nicaragua → The far right end, a woman doing loundry.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  El Castillo, Nicaragua → An occasional boat.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  El Castillo, Nicaragua → There were many stops on the way, dropping people off in seemingly middle of nowhere. Also, the military check points. Too many of them. During one stop I snapped this photos of plants living on a tree. There is an amazing variety of parasitic plants growing on trees, and they seem to hetting along well, without any bad effects on the host.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  El Castillo, Nicaragua → A local with a bunch of belts and other stuff for sale. Nicas with wads of belts, hammocks, watches, sunglasses and wahtever they can carry for sale are a quite common sight in parks, boats and buses.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  Boca de Sabalos, Nicaragua → We went into a smaller river to our major stop before El Castillo - the capital of the area, Boca de Sabalos.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  Boca de Sabalos, Nicaragua → The pier at Boca de Sabalos.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  Boca de Sabalos, Nicaragua → A short stop, and we are moving again.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  Boca de Sabalos, Nicaragua → Full throttle on Rio San Juan.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  Boca de Sabalos, Nicaragua → Half an hour and we are arriving at El Castillo.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  El Castillo, Nicaragua → The first photo of 'el castillo' - the fortress build by the Spanish to stop the French and Dutch pirates.

Rio San Juan boat to El Castillo - Nicaragua

Photo:  El Castillo, Nicaragua → Here we are - the panga pier at El Castillo.

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