Friday, 25 September 2009

Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua

We arrived on Isla de Ometepe after a 4 hour boat journey at about 10pm. The island is made up of two volcanoes which have erupted and the hardened lava has joined them together. We found a guide to take us to climb Conception (the active of the two volcanos) the following day, We were told it was going to be a 12 hour hike starting at 5am.The walk to the start of the hike took about 45 minutes. We passed the hut where you pay a fee and were told we didn't have to pay because the guy was sleeping.
The walk up was a steep rocky climb and took about 4 hours 30 mins. It was quite hard work and we were going at a really quick pace.


At the top of the volcano we were surrounded by horrible weather, it was really windy and loads of rain so we couldn't see much and didn't hang around for long. As we started making our way back down Deb realised her legs had packed in and she had full on jelly legs. With no way back but getting down herself she kept having hysterics because she felt so helpless. Using two sticks as crutches, Forest Gump style, she hobbled her way down. We didn't get back until 5pm. I don't think Deb will be climbing any more volcanoes for a while!




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