We left Barillas for a two day trip to the Puesta del Sol Marina in Nicaragua. We stopped overnight in Amapala and arrived in Puesta del Sol late afternoon.
These are the large fishing boats you see as you pass down the coast.
They are covered with birds, as you can see, and are rusty old hulks although it is hard to see that from these shots.
Puesta del Sol is also up in the mangroves. We'd see these rough-hewn dug-outs every day. This is one of the better ones.
Here we are in the marina. That is Zephyrus on the opposite side of the finger from us.
This is the view from the "not quite infinity" pool. It was meant to be that, but the water wasn't filled to the edge and overflowing...I know, I know...whine, whine, whine!! Actually, the part I found the most difficult was the fact that you couldn't see your feet so, I'm guessing, they didn't really keep up the chemicals. However, it was so hot there that we used the pool and I tried not to think about it!
This is another view, including the restaurant. We had a couple of hamburgers here...but nothing was cheap!! We brought our own drinks to the pool.
While staying in the marina, we bit the bullet and took the $20 van ride into the town of Chinandego. We were very glad we did. It was quite different from anywhere else we'd been.
They had hundreds of these little rickshaws. So, since we had about an hour to kill we rented one (for $3) and he gave us a tour of the town. Since we were in a rickshaw, we decided to have chinese food for lunch after the tour.
Everyone seems to use these as their means of transportation. They cost about 25 cents a ride, normally, I think.
On the tour, he peddled us down through the market area. It is always a very interesting place to visit.
They seem to love the big plantain bananas in all of Central America...even the small bananas are very beaten-up!
Garlic anyone??
We stopped at the local "Bomberos" (firemen) to see if we could buy a couple of T-shirts for our kids. No luck getting anything in their size, but we got a couple of crests for sewing on shirts.
Amazingly, we always see the firemen smoking here...what's that all about anyway??
It is certainly one of the more third world countries we have been to, it appears, as we saw lots of carts, some with oxen, and many with wooden wheels.
They were digging up the road here, but our rickshaw made it through. We thought this was a great shot.
Not sure who this little guy is waiting for??
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