“Aqui en la playa” Yoni’s photos around San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua (aquis hotel san juan)
Preview of Yoni’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua Entry Title: “Aqui en la playa” Entry: “June 15, 2008 Panama City, Panama Our plan is to leave Panama City and go to San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua on the Pacific coast. We have heard that the beaches there are very nice. We leave the Panama bus station at 11:40 AM. We reach the Costa Rica border at 6 PM. The strange thing at the border is that Panama goes through a time consuming search of our luggage including a drug sniffing dog. At least we thought the cute little cocker spaniel was sniffing for drugs. But why would Panama care if we were taking their drugs out of the country? When we entered Panama by sea no one checked our bags. We could understand if they wanted to stop us from taking antiquities or national treasures from their country. But Panama doesn’t have any national treasures. Shouldn’t this search be taking place on the Costa Rica side of the border? And sure enough when we carried our bags over to Costa Rica they did again search our bags. As a result of all this line standing and bag searching it took 90 minutes before our bus was underway again. Costa Rica time is 1 hour behind Panama time. We are surprised to learn that the Panama C**** is east of Florida. June 16, 2008 San Jose, Costa Rica We arrive in San Jose at 1:30 AM Central American time …