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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.
Photo: El Castillo, Nicaragua → Boarding the panga.
Photo: El Castillo, Nicaragua → All ready to go.
Photo: El Castillo, Nicaragua → And we are moving! It will be about two and a half hours to El Castillo.
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.
Photo: El Castillo, Nicaragua → There pass some dwellings along the way.
Photo: San Carlos, Nicaragua → The far right end, a woman doing loundry.
Photo: El Castillo, Nicaragua → An occasional boat.
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.
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.
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.
Photo: Boca de Sabalos, Nicaragua → The pier at Boca de Sabalos.
Photo: Boca de Sabalos, Nicaragua → A short stop, and we are moving again.
Photo: Boca de Sabalos, Nicaragua → Full throttle on Rio San Juan.
Photo: Boca de Sabalos, Nicaragua → Half an hour and we are arriving at El Castillo.
Photo: El Castillo, Nicaragua → The first photo of 'el castillo' - the fortress build by the Spanish to stop the French and Dutch pirates.
Photo: El Castillo, Nicaragua → Here we are - the panga pier at El Castillo.
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