
Things are Looking Up – Naadam and Road to Kharkhorin – in maps
Having made the decision not to do a big packrafting trip, the relief was tangible. Finally I felt like I could do things I really wanted to. And I wanted…
Having made the decision not to do a big packrafting trip, the relief was tangible. Finally I felt like I could do things I really wanted to. And I wanted…
And here is the video for the second half of our Nicaraguan packrafting adventure. From the confluence of the Rio Bocay, we paddled down the Rio Coco passing several Miskito…
There’s no doubt about it. Packrafting in Nicaragua was one of the highlights of my journey through central America. Apologies for not yet finishing the blog of the trip. I…
…And so we survived our first day and night on the river. But who knows what the new day will bring… It brought crocodiles. The day started calmly. The early…
So there we are, a-floating down the river. Calm water through a tunnel of trees. Walls of silence through which nothing passes. Just a white-noise buzzing in the background of…
The packrafting trip began long before we reached the put-in point on the Rio Bocay. Crowded chicken buses from Somoto to Esteli and on to Jinotega. The inevitable sit-and-wait at…
Or, A Poco Loco on the Coco? The idea: To packraft down a river somewhere in central America. We had the packrafts, so that just left a river to find.…
We bought 10 days of food in Jinotega, up in the highlands of northern Nicaragua. We figured this would be enough food to keep us going (although we only had…
El Salvador is a small country, and we were not there long. Of course, I have stories to tell… of drunk teenager thieves and trying to wake a deaf and…
The plan was simple. Take a rucksack with supplies for a couple of nights and packraft down the Rio Dulce to Livingston on the Caribbean coast. But not everything always…