http://travelwithnatnee.com Travel Blog Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:50:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We mostly just played in the water and tried to relax so that we'd be rested when we got home. Natnee and I did a short mangrove tour on our last day there. It was disappointing, but we did get to see some animals. We did it mainly ... http://travelwithnatnee.com/archives/271 The Jardín de Celeste really was the best hotel in the area. We looked. :) It had cozy cabins nestled in the hillside surrounded with beautiful plants and flowers. They owned a 270 acre coffee plantation and had a small petting zoo consisting of a few ducks, some sheep, and ... http://travelwithnatnee.com/archives/236 We were undecided for a long time of where we wanted to go for our fall trip. We initially thought we'd go out west, but finally decided on El Salvador since it had a nice beach, mountains, and some interesting foods. So, off we went on September 30. We stayed ... http://travelwithnatnee.com/archives/222 Sorry this post has taken err... six months to get posted. Things like this seem less important when you're home. Anyway I left off in San Cristobal; from there we booked a tour to go to the Sumidero Canyon for the day before we left. It cost 14$ each (although ... http://travelwithnatnee.com/archives/219 Upon arriving in San Cristobal, we wandered through the market for awhile, bought some mexican roasted corn with mayonnaise, chili powder, and lime on it, empanadas stuffed with potato and beef (4 for 30 cents) and then bought some tangerines. Now usually in the states if you go to a ... http://travelwithnatnee.com/archives/212 On arriving in Antigua, we finally found rooms with HOT WATER! It had been awhile, and I had forgotten how nice it felt. Of course, it was a tad chilly in Antigua so that explains why. And my bathroom wasn't exactly what you'd expect. In fact, it was the smallest ... http://travelwithnatnee.com/archives/172 So said the T-Shirt on Val Kilmer's character in Real Genius (or was it surf Nicaragua? Oh well). So I decided to take him up on the idea. Getting into El Salvador was almost too easy. We walked across the border. Looking for the usual immigrations department, forms, fees, etc. ... http://travelwithnatnee.com/archives/170 So after getting over my rapturous delight at finding real, cheap, food again - island food was getting old - we went to Copan Ruinas, the best preserved site in Honduras for seeing ruins. On our way, we stopped at the local market. As usual, I almost missed it - ... http://travelwithnatnee.com/archives/163 Upon arriving at Utila we were bombarded by people trying to get us to go to their dive shops. There are more dive shops on Utila than people. So we just put our heads down and ¨dived¨ through the crowd (so to speak) and got away from the hubbub. We ... http://travelwithnatnee.com/archives/153 So we got to Granada next, which was nice enough, but I wasn´t that impressed. Just another big town. We did find some unique foods - like fried cheese with honey on top. Which was... not as good as it sounds. And we found a food I´d been craving for ... http://travelwithnatnee.com/archives/149