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This is a detailed report on that trip: * Panama to Costa Rica: 19 hours, $25, Borders fee $10 * Costa Rica to Nicaragua: 8 hours, $10, Borders fee $10 * Nicaragua to San Salvador, through Honduras 12 hours, $25, Borders fee $20 * San Salvador to Guatemala: 6 hours, $8, no borders fee * So entire bus fee was $68, borders fee was $40 and it takes 45 hours.

Central America (part IV)

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-22 18:46:53

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In a couple places on the beach the vendors sell excellent oysters, $1 a piece. They look and taste like famous Belon oysters with strong slightly metallic taste. Sellers poor juice out of oysters down to the sand and then wash oysters in the bucket with murky water. I asked them not to do it with my oysters. Restaurants do not sell oysters because most tourists are Americans who prefer hamburgers and steaks.

I saw funny restaurant advertisement: A taste of Italy:
Pastas
Submarinos
Hamburguesas

Mexican idea of food is pretty funny. They cut everything in small pieces, insert it inside the tacos and cover it with fiery sauce. They have lobster tacos and oysters tacos for example. It is impossible in Mexico to get plain fried eggs. Unless you have tied the cook's hands behind his back, the cook will cut fried eggs in small pieces and mix with something else. I always was curious, if somebody cut piece of ribbon, cover it with fiery sauce and give it to Mexicans, will they be able to notice that something is wrong.

From Puerto Valarte I took the overnight bus to Los Mochis, the starting point of the famous Copper Canyon Rail Road. The bus arrived at 6 am just one hour before the train departure. Somebody may think that it is too hectic a schedule, but it was fine with me. I wisely selected a good bus seat and slept all night with help of my already mentioned sleeping pills. The best seat is the window seat in the last row. It is best because your neighbor has to sit next to the toilet door. Nobody wants that seat. So while the bus was almost full, I had two seats to sleep comfortably.

Copper Canyon Rail Road is a famous tourist attraction. It is built through the area of deep canyons. Three of them are bigger than the Grand Canyon. Scenery is great and I enjoyed it very much in spite of constant fights with conductors. That rail road may be a great engineering achievement, but it is the worst managed ...