Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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P for positively surprised
Some travelers tried to dissuade us to go to San Juan del Sur as it was ugly, overcrowded and dirty but we decided to head there anyway to relax for two days – read: do (absolutely) nothing to avoid spending money before crossing into Costa Rica. At first, we were not sure of our decision…
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O for Omotepe: a two-faced island
When we boarded the ferry to Omotepe island in San Jorge, we didn’t know what to expect. Yes, we had done our usual ritual: googling and asking other travelers about the island but this somehow didn’t help much. There were unfortunately too many contradictory opinions (‘it is great’, ‘it is boring’, ‘so many things to…
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N for Nicaragua: the country we have trouble to fall in love with…
Yes, we had amazing days in Somoto, Las Peñitas, Little Corn Island and Matagalpa, yet, we are struggling to fall in love with Nicaragua. Our hearts are refusing to warm up to Nicaragua the way they did for El Salvador and Honduras. M and I have been discussing a lot about it and we have…
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Tuesday yumminess!
Throughout Central America, we have been fed with tamales. At first, I was skeptical. I mean seriously, THIS. DOESN’T. LOOK. APPETIZING. But after my first ‘unwilled’ bite (M literally force fed me. Pfff, I was not impressed) in the Honduran forest (which I would have called a jungle but this is a different story), I…
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M for marvelously marvelous and marvelously relaxing
Since it seems that most of our boat rides have given us exciting (yet terrifying) memories so far, I didn’t expect anything less from our boat ride to Little Corn island. We had reached Big Corn Island by plane as the road plus boat option was too time consuming and we were eager to get…
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L for Live, love and laugh
With 3 countries involved, 12 hours on 7 different buses and 4 border crossings (out El Salvador, in and out Honduras and in) to reach Nicaragua, it’d better be a good one, we bitterly thought. We were pretty bummed out to leave El Salvador behind (to say the least) and cranky… Those 4 border crossings were…
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Tuesday yumminess
60 days of exploring already?! I can hardly believe that I’m celebrating my second monthversary on the road but I apparently did it. I have survived mosquito bites allergies, hitchhiking, chicken buses, local food, heat waves and most important the unknown (a small step for the backpacking community but a giant one for me!). Time…
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K for kindness or the Salvadorian quality the world fails to see!
After riding many more chicken buses, hitchhiking (sorry, mom!) and traveling to the Northern, Western and Eastern parts of El Salvador, we would like to confirm that our previous statement was spot on: this ‘Don’t go to El Salvador, it is dangerous’ is bullcrap and before someone shouts (people tend to shout at you on social media…
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J for j’adore!
Ok, it has been a week, 11 different towns/villages, 16 chicken buses rides and I’m not gonna lie to you: I was really tempted to copy / paste my post on Honduras… What? Yes, it would have been pure laziness but it was sooo tempting! But since I’m (lowering my voice) unemployed *coughing*, I figured…
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Tuesday yumminess!
Since I unfortunately had to say bye to my beloved baleadas, I desperately needed to find another local dish that could help me go over my slight baleada addiction. While strolling on a street in the one of the most dangerous countries in the world (I’ll come back to this in my next post…), a…
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