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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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there would always be a few guys (not necessary drunk) trying to cross this huge wall of boiling water.

Traveling helped me to understand Russian mentality, in comparison with others. Russians like challenges and if they see something which is difficult to climb, of something from which it is difficult to jump, they do it. I do not want to say that the people of other countries are un-adventurous, no. But they prefer to do it in more civilized way.

So as the only representative on this beach I decided to try it. I have been fighting with rough water like mountain rivers or ocean waves for all my life. It started a long time ago when my friends told me a story of the girl who fell in the mountain river and drowned, while her fellow travelers ran along the shore and tried to save here. My experience with rough water unexpectedly brought me financial success back in Russia. In Altay mountains I swam across the white water river to the almost un-inhabited territory and found there a good deposit of mumie, a valued folk medicine in Russia.

So, I swam across the crushing waves of the Pacific ocean and back a couple times, see attached picture. This unusual activity attracted the attention of a few people on the beach. They asked me how I did it. I explained to them that when you go to the ocean you have to dive under the coming waves. When you go back you have to swim as fast as possible, then, when you get in that super jacuzzi area, where the waves are crashing, you should get in fetal position and protect your head. As soon as a wave stops for a second before going back, you should run to the shore like crazy in order to not let the next wave to catch you.

I decided to swim around the Land's End from the Sea of Cortez to the Pacific side and finish on Pacific beach, which I just tested. On my way I passed a colony of sea lions, who lives on that southern tip. When I approached the beach a little crowd collected there. ...