February 21-23rd: Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua.

Lake Nicaragua is among the largest lakes in the world. The lovely island of Ometepe was formed by two volcanoes, Concepcion on the left and Maderas on the right. The lake is home to the world's only species of freshwater shark. When we took a kayak out to explore the lake, we found the aptly named monkey island but no such luck on the shark fins.


They've got some small horses over there. These poor guys struggled a bit on our four-hour journey to the San Ramon waterfall. Sure made the trip easy on us, though. That is, until we woke up the next day and realized that our backs had been rendered virtually immobile.

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