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Traveling Central America
#23815789 - 11/09/16 10:17 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have been blessed with the opportunity of a lifetime- to backpack central america for an indefinite period of time. February 23rd a very close companion and I will be buying one way tickets to San Jose, Costa Rica. We will be attending envision music festival on the 26th, then bussing from there to Forest Dance Costa Rica, a 6 day sacred fire dance. http://www.heartbeatcollective.org/forestdance/costa
From there we will be traveling to the various hotspots around the country, thankfully with two other friends who understand the culture and speak fluent spanish. We will be traveling with them for about a month, at which point they will be going south to Panama and us North to Nicaragua. This will give us the opportunity to reach an acceptable level of spanish and integrate within the society.
In nicaragua we plan on visiting leon, doing a homestay or two, seeing the volcanoes and I definitely want to see ometepe Island at the very least.
Then to Honduras --> Guatemala --> (potentially) Belize --> Mexico. We may end in guatemala though, depends on how we are feeling. We could easily be staying 6-12 months in Central America.
My questions to you is:
Have you ever done something like this before? Do you have any tips? How much did you spend and how long did you stay? Do you have any spots you recommend?
Originally it was supposed to just be a one month in Costa Rica type of thing, at least thats what she wanted. But she phoned me yesterday from the mountains saying she wanted to do a whole tour so now im in the beginning stages of planning this trip.
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: TheMovement] 3
#23815809 - 11/09/16 10:23 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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yeah go to columbia everyone there is really nice they'll take good care of u and acapulco in mexico is a must visit afterwards theyre mad chill
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: Sheekle]
#23815863 - 11/09/16 10:44 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I said Central America.
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: TheMovement] 1
#23815904 - 11/09/16 11:03 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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TheMovement said: I said Central America.
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: stzacrack]
#23816066 - 11/09/16 12:13 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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According to the UN,Mexico is part of Central America.
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: TheMovement]
#23816083 - 11/09/16 12:18 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Costa rica is touristy and overpriced imo, but naturally beautiful.nicaragua is cheap and super chill the cities are more sketch than the pueblos, (as with everywhere else in the world), but if you speak a little spanish you'll be fine. Guatemala is amazing for the indigenous culture and the ruins, mexico is great too, don't beleive the media, the mafias will punish people for robbing tourists in tourist areas worse than the police will, they dont want the tourists to stop coming and buying shit, as the economy revolves around tourism and selling drugs to tourists on vacation...
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: TheMovement]
#23816762 - 11/09/16 04:21 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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My brother went to Costa Rica he said it was great stayed at a hostel.
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rickpsfuckyou said: Costa rica is touristy and overpriced imo, but naturally beautiful.nicaragua is cheap and super chill the cities are more sketch than the pueblos, (as with everywhere else in the world), but if you speak a little spanish you'll be fine. Guatemala is amazing for the indigenous culture and the ruins, mexico is great too, don't beleive the media, the mafias will punish people for robbing tourists in tourist areas worse than the police will, they dont want the tourists to stop coming and buying shit, as the economy revolves around tourism and selling drugs to tourists on vacation...
Yeah i've heard mixed reviews about costa rica, beautiful but pricey. Right now it's seeming like the best option is to work our way north through Mexico rather than stopping in Belize. I've heard its beautiful there.
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mexico is great too, don't beleive the media, the mafias will punish people for robbing tourists in tourist areas worse than the police will, they dont want the tourists to stop coming and buying shit, as the economy revolves around tourism and selling drugs to tourists on vacation...
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Costa Rica was pretty nice.Went there for a week for my birthday 5 years ago.My dad and I went to San Jose for 2 days,then we stayed in Guanacaste for 5 days.Went river tubing where we saw howler monkeys and ziplined and went to the beach there.There's so much stuff to do there.Would like to go back someday.
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bumpity bump bump!
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: TheMovement]
#23846579 - 11/18/16 08:32 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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up to the top lets get the vagrants of the shroomery posting.
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: TheMovement]
#23847700 - 11/19/16 08:16 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I stayed in Chiapas for a week. It's very different than northern Mexico. It's almost entirely an indigenous population. Saw the ruins in palenque.
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: TheMovement]
#23847725 - 11/19/16 08:24 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Good luck man, I hope you don't get kidnapped. One good thing though, if you do get kidnapped, they don't like to murder whites, just hold you for ransom, those brown brothers want good relations between the USA and their neck of the woods, so wont kill you based on that alone.
Picking shrooms in such an area would be an amazing experience, not just active species, but any type of shroom.
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: Lucis] 1
#23847733 - 11/19/16 08:26 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Kidnapping is really not that common in Costa Rica
I swear, Americans can't even keep their stereotypes straight...
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: Crystal G]
#23847740 - 11/19/16 08:29 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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To get from Costa Rica to Mexico you need to traverse two of the most dangerous countries in the world. He won't be kidnapped but it's doubtful he'll survive.
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: Crystal G]
#23847747 - 11/19/16 08:33 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Crystal G said: Kidnapping is really not that common in Costa Rica
I swear, Americans can't even keep their stereotypes straight...
Shhh, you're ruining my post, I am trying to scare the boy.
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: koods]
#23847748 - 11/19/16 08:33 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I thought it said he bought a one way ticket to Costa Rica?
Oh shit, I didn't see his itinerary after that. Yeah Belize is risky. Mexico is risky.
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: Crystal G]
#23847760 - 11/19/16 08:38 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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He will be OK, but there's a list of the worlds 50 most violent cities on a business oriented site, just search 50 most violent cities and it should come up.
Most are in Mexico, Central/South America.
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: Lucis] 1
#23847770 - 11/19/16 08:41 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Not to mention all the endemic diseases. Have you ever seen that show "monsters inside me?" Every other story is about some horrific parasite someone picked up traveling from Costa Rica to Mexico. Themovement already looks emaciated. I doubt he could survive a bought of malaria or dengue fever. And he'll definitely pick up zika and end up leaving a trail of tiny headed babies in his wake.
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: koods]
#23847776 - 11/19/16 08:45 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fennario said: He will be OK, but there's a list of the worlds 50 most violent cities on a business oriented site, just search 50 most violent cities and it should come up.
Most are in Mexico, Central/South America.
Yes I'm aware, but Costa Rica is not one of those countries. It would be a legitimate fear in a place like Mexico or Brazil though.
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koods said: Not to mention all the endemic diseases. Have you ever seen that show "monsters inside me?" Every other story is about some horrific parasite someone picked up traveling from Costa Rica to Mexico. Themovement already looks emaciated. I doubt he could survive a bought of malaria or dengue fever. And he'll definitely pick up zika and end up leaving a trail of tiny headed babies in his wake.
Believe it or not it has always been my dream to get infested with botfly larvaes inside of me, I feel like it would be so satisfying to squeeze one of those out of you, like popping the biggest pimple of your life or something.
Or at least let me come across a dog with botfly larvae crawling all over him.
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#23847794 - 11/19/16 08:51 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Maybe themovement can stop by on his way back and you can pop his botfly lesions.
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: Crystal G] 1
#23847816 - 11/19/16 09:05 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Crystal G said: it has always been my dream to get infested with botfly larvaes inside of me

I'm pretty sure you can get infections and allregic reactions from these things.
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Yeah but it's nothing a couple antibiotics and some ointment cream can't cure. It's not like you'll get gangrene and your arm will fall off from one of those botflies, unless you're really unlucky or in filthy deplorable conditions.
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Buy a bag of keyhangers with the name/picture of the city/state/country you are from. It can basically be anything you want but I think something that is sorta personal works best. Have one hanging on your backpack at all times. Then, when you have a cool interaction with some locals or other travelers (somebody gives you a ride or whatever) you give them this awesome token you have been carying with you for all this time. They dont know you have a whole bag of the things.
People will be so stoked to get something like that
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Re: Traveling Central America [Re: koods]
#23848379 - 11/19/16 12:06 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Tripsurfer said: Buy a bag of keyhangers with the name/picture of the city/state/country you are from. It can basically be anything you want but I think something that is sorta personal works best. Have one hanging on your backpack at all times. Then, when you have a cool interaction with some locals or other travelers (somebody gives you a ride or whatever) you give them this awesome token you have been carying with you for all this time. They dont know you have a whole bag of the things.
People will be so stoked to get something like that 
I love this idea.  Quote:
koods said: To get from Costa Rica to Mexico you need to traverse two of the most dangerous countries in the world. He won't be kidnapped but it's doubtful he'll survive.
eh, i'll be fine.
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Crystal G said: it has always been my dream to get infested with botfly larvaes inside of me

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