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Distance Samara-Santa Elena au Costa Rica
by Juliefleurie · 2005-12-05 · 8 replies
Bonjour!!!

Je vais au Costa Rica bientôt et j'aimerais savoir si, en se levant tôt, il est possible de partir de Santa Elena (monteverde) en voiture pour se rendre jusqu'à Samara en une journée. Ce serait bien sur une bonne journée de transport, mais en passant par le pont et Hojancha, y arriverais-je? Connaissez-vous un bel endroit à Samara pour les fêtes du 31 décembre?

Merci infiniment!!!
Vol Lyon ou Paris pour San josé au Costa Rica
by Gilbert04 · 2005-11-14 · 11 replies
je prépare mes vacances 2006 recherche vols de lyon ou paris pour San josé au Costa Rica quels compagnies sérieuses merci
Besoin d'un visa pour la Chine depuis Hong Kong?
by Alexla · 2005-11-02 · 14 replies
Bonjour à tous,

Je vais bientot partir étudier à Hong Kong pour 6mois, je vais avoir un Visa étudiant pour Hong Kong et je voudrais avoir si avec ce visa je peux voyager dans la Chine continentale où dois-je refaire une demande de visa une fois sur place ? De plus, combien de temps faut-il pour renouveller un Visa à Hong Kong ?

Dernière petite question, quels vaccins dois-je faire obligatoirement avant de partir ?

Merci pour vos réponses !
Euro ou dollar US en Afrique de l'ouest?
by Yankadi · 2005-08-25 · 10 replies
Je pars en janvier prochain pour un voyage de six mois en Afrique de l'Ouest. Je compte visiter, à coup sûr, le Sénégal, la Gambie, la Guinée-Bissau, la Guinée Conakry, le Mali et le Burkina-Faso. J'ai une carte VISA mais je sais que ça ne marche pas partout (sûrement pas dans la brousse...) Pour les billets, qu'est-ce que c'est mieux pour échanger avec les monaies locales : euros ou les billets verts d'Oncle Sam? Merci de vos précieux conseils.
Costa Rica avec échappée au Panama en un mois?
by Nessie2 · 2005-07-26 · 21 replies
Un mois pour parcourir le costa rica sac à dos, en prenant les transports locaux, en novembre est-ce que j'aurais le temps de voir la plupart des parcs et des plages les p lus renommées ? Sinon se rendre au Panama est ce que ça faudrait le coup, est ce compliqué, ect... je suis toujours à la recherche de quelqu'un qui voudrait bien m'accompagner, mais les candidats ne se font pas nombreux ?
conseils pour 4x4 au costa rica
by Zann · 2005-04-25 · 5 replies
Nous serons 4 au costa rica en juillet; merci de nous conseiller sur le choix d'un véhicule sûr, mais pas trop énorme...et pas trop trop cher! nous voyageons avec 4 sacs à dos. Connaissez vous des loueurs de confiance? tous vos avis serons les bienvenus!!! merci
Meilleure période pour le Costa Rica?
by Hankalis · 2005-04-01 · 8 replies
hello,

d'apres ce que j'ai pu trouve sur internet, les meilleures periodes pour visiter le costa rica sont octobre-novembre et avril-mai parceque parait il ca permet d'eviter a la fois la saison des pluies et les les grosses hordes de touristes.

vous confirmer ou pas?!?!?
Adresses d'hôtels au Costa Rica
by Partimonkiki · 2004-10-26 · 8 replies
Hello,

Mon mari et moi partons dans 10 jours au Costa Rica et nous recherchons des bons plans pour dormir à moins de 40 euros mais sympa avec si possible possibilité de cotoyer la population, soit petits hotels, soit chez l'habitant du côté : du volcan Arenal, de Quepos/Manuel Antonio, de Poas ou de Tarcoles / Carara. Merci infiniment à ceux qui auraient de bonnes adresses à nous indiquer.

D'autre part, n'étant pas longtemps sur place, nous envisageons de louer quand même un 4x4 et ne pas nous déplacer uniquement en bus. Y a-t-il des choses à savoir lorsque l'on loue ce véhicule ? On pense le louer en arrivant à San Jose, si qq'un avait une agence de location à nous conseiller...

Merci bcp pour vos précieuses aides
Billet open jaw Europe/Panama retour Guatemala/Europe
by Lavalentine · 2004-08-20 · 12 replies
Salut les gens,

Je compte partir début Février en Amérique Centrale pour quelques mois et cherche un open jaw d'europe à Panama pour l'aller et de Guate à europe pour le retour. Les seuls que j'ai trouvés de pas cher sont au départ de london avec escale au retour à Houston, aéroport G. Bush que j'aimerai bien boycotter !!!! Des tuyaux ? Merci aussi de me faire part de vos impressions quant au Panama et Salvador... Merci !!!

😛

Sylvie
Péninsule d'Osa au Costa Rica
by Maud58 · 2004-02-24 · 2 replies
Bonjour

Je souhaite me rendre sur la Péninsule d'Osa 4 jrs pour faire Isla del Cano, le Parc Corcovado....

Mais je ne sais pas ce qui est le point de chute le + sympa et le + joli : Bahia Drake, Carate, Matapolo, Puerto Jimenez?

Votre avis m'intéresse, de même que vos bons plans.

Merci à tous
Budget de 15/20 euros par jour pour l'Amérique Centrale?
by Zanaah · 2004-02-17 · 5 replies
😉 nous voulons partir en amerique centrale pour un mois, d'ici une semaine a deux, avec un budget de 15 a 20 euros par personne et par jour.on a envie de plages, de nature, ballades, ...on cherche sur internet et nous sommes perdus .

guatemala n'a pas l'air sur;costa rica on se demande par rapport au budget et si c'est pas trop touristique, americanise.et panama on sait pas trop, c'est sympa???

merci pour toutes infos susceptibles de nous faire choisir.🙂
Location de moto au Costa Rica?
by Marcpouliot · 2004-01-30 · 13 replies
Bonjour, je pars pour le costa rica seul en mars ou avril...1 semaine seulement je crois que je vais m en tenir à montaverde et les environ..p-e un peu de surf.j aimerais avoir vos recommandation svp!! j' habite la rive sud de montréal..pour les intéressés!! J' aimerais savoir si on peut louer une moto au costa rica..? est ce dispendieux?......... est ce dangereux pour le vol des locations qu on fait? ou vais je trouver des cabinos ?? puis je facilement partir en expédition seul ds le parc ?? et revenir pour dormir??

merci
2 semaines au Costa Rica
by Erika2 · 2004-01-22 · 5 replies
Bonjour Tout le monde...je vais au Costa rica a la fin avril et j y vais durant 2 semaines. Je voudrais savoir si 2 semaines c est assez long pour profiter du pays! JE voudrais savoir aussi si cest dispendieux de faire du bungee, canopy, plongée sous marine et si ej devrais reserver d avance pour ces activités????
Deux sortes de destins...
by Titania · 2003-12-16 · 35 replies
Le grand écrivain ivoirien Ahmadou Kourouma (Allah n'est pas obligé), amoureux de la paix et de la liberté, vient de mourir. Il avait écrit que

" Il y a dans la vie deux sortes de destin. Ceux qui ouvrent les pistes dans la grande brousse de la vie et ceux qui suivent ces pistes ouvertes".

Lequel de ce destin pensez-vous être le vôtre (ou souhaitez que soit le vôtre) et pourquoi ? Comment interprétez-vous "la brousse de la vie" ? Dans quelle mesure pensez-vous que le voyage ouvre ou suit des pistes (autres que la piste ou voie de sa propre vie que chacun décide un jour de suivre ou pas).
Costa Rica: voyage organisé ou individuel?
by Lo83 · 2003-02-19 · 9 replies
Bonjour 😎 je voudrais partir au costa rica mi juillet pour une durée de 15 jours. J'hésite entre un circuit aventure (15 participants maximum + tour opérator) avec visites des réserves par le biais de différentes activités : marche, VTT, rafting, cheval, parcours à la cime des arbres ... ou partir sans tour opérator et donc trouver un vol abordable + hébergement sur place + déplacement (bus locaux ou location de voiture ?). Nous serions 3 ou 4 personnes à partir mais nous ne parlons pas espagnol. Selon vous quelle est la formule la plus intéressante financièrement parlant ? Dans l'attente de vos conseils. Laurence
Obtention du visa chinois en Thaïlande?
by Croustade · 2011-11-15 · 29 replies
Bonjour

Il semble qu'il y ai des mesures spécifiques à l'obtention de visa pour aller en Chine à destination des français. Je suis actuellement en Thailande et j'aimerais me rendre en Chine d'ici peu.

L'ambassade chinoise me demande : -ticket aller retour d'avion - réservation d’hôtel - justificatif de ressources - attestation d'assurance

De plus, il n'y a pas de possibilité de faire une visa en express pour les ressortissant français.

Pffff

Bref, je n'ai pas envie de payer un billet d'avion, ni une quizaine de nuit d'hotel pour me voir refuser mon visa.

J'imaginai fournir de fausses réservations d'hotel et de bilet d'avion. Trés facile de nos jours à l'aide d'un ordinateur. Pensez vous que c'est envisageable? Est ce que les autorités chinoises vérifie réellement la véracité des réservations? Ou est ce une très mauvaise idée?

Mille merci de vos éclaircissements ;)
Africa: A Heartfelt Love for a Continent
by Taamaden · 2026-05-06 · 7 replies
“When the Whites came to Africa, we had the land and they had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed: when we opened them, the Whites had the land and we had the Bible.” Jomo Kenyatta (p.7)

The Maggi cube, an unchallenged hegemony, and so much more

“The hopeless continent,” headlined The Economist, a British magazine, in July 2000 about Africa. Eleven years later, the same magazine headlined “Africa rising” instead. Images of Africa in the prosperous North constantly oscillate between apocalyptic scenarios and enthusiastic projections. A key issue with such images lies in the generalization they entail. If you look at the continent, considerable contrasts emerge depending on space and time. It’s no surprise that a region of the world encompassing such diverse ecological zones, maintaining such varied ties with other continents, comprising nearly fifty nation-states in sub-Saharan Africa alone, and characterized by a great diversity of languages, belief systems, and historical paths, doesn’t share a single destiny.

And yet, for many people outside Africa, as well as for many Africans, the continent constitutes a single entity, defined by criteria such as skin color, a colonial past, poverty, and the art of survival. Until now, these perspectives were generally accompanied by the idea that Africa had to—or should have—followed a single path together, sometimes called development, sometimes modernization, sometimes liberation, then a market economy. None of these paths delivered on their promises.

The two writers Alain Mabanckou and Abdourahman Waberi—one from Congo, the other raised in Djibouti, both long settled in France and now professors at renowned North American universities (Los Angeles, Washington)—have had enough of pessimistic scenarios: “We are aware that Africa is in the world and the world is in Africa. The same goes for all other continents, as our destinies are inextricably linked for better or worse. We refuse to see Africa as a reservoir of misfortunes or a continent cursed by atavistic misfortune and characterized by ethnic conflicts. [...] It’s this passionate flame we wanted to capture in a book [...] a kind of stroll through African cultures, without any demands, each letter of the alphabet leading us to a notion, a practice, a concept, a moment in history, literature, painting, politics, economics, cuisine, etc.” (p.10-11). Africa, they write, is on the verge of “imposing a signature, a style, a way of being in the world and in relation to the rest of the world.” (p.11) To put words to the continent’s diversity and dynamism, the two authors created a “rambling ABC,” a kind of portrait—or more precisely, a mythography—that lets you see and feel the pulse of a vast continent whose cultural power is unfolding before our eyes. Once marginalized or even mocked, the voice and importance of the Continent in global affairs are now undeniable” (p.11), containing over a hundred entries, mostly concise, written in a relaxed and casual style. The optimistic, even exuberant tone is set from the brief introduction. The duo of authors wants to “sing a love song to the cultures of our continent, to its inhabitants past and present, to its exceptional resources and its spectacular globalization despite a certain pollution that still clouds our skies due to the unmatched duration of dictatorships in some of our regions.” (p.12) In doing so, they don’t want to be too distracted by today’s Afewerki-Biya-Bongo-Déby & Co. ...

Of course, you’ll find tributes to great precursors like Frantz Fanon (“[...] it was a love story and admiration that wasn’t dimmed by the four decades separating his birth from ours. Let’s add that we were born while the native of Fort-de-France had left the world’s stage four years earlier, in the prime of life” p.141), Mongo Beti (“You must read and reread Mongo Beti, a genius who used his fame to support often just causes in Africa, like defending oppressed groups. His place is already in History. His oppressors, like the dictators Ahmadou Ahidjo and Paul Biya, can’t compete in the same category” p.64), the Malian Amadou Hampâté Bâ

(“Posterity remembers him mainly as an tireless defender of African cultures. His plea for the collection and preservation of traditional African knowledge remains a major event for all men and women of good will. One day in 1960, at the UNESCO podium, the native of Bandiagara sounded the alarm: ‘[...] Since we’ve admitted that the humanity of each people is the heritage of all humanity, if African traditions aren’t collected in time and written down, they’ll one day be missing from the universal archives of humanity.’” p.51),

Kwame Nkrumah, “one of the founders of Pan-Africanism, father of Ghana’s independence” (p.239), as well as the historian Cheikh Anta Diop, the writer, poet, and politician Aimé Césaire, and the economist and thinker Samir Amin, but also very warm tributes to certain contemporary African intellectuals like Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Achille Mbembe

(“A few years ago, in dominant economic circles, a rumor often resurfaced, usually disguised as a cold and scientifically proven analysis: Africa is useless. It’s a burden for the rest of the human community. With its 2% share in world trade, it would disappear from stock market radars without anyone noticing. So? Maybe it’ll be pulled up by other continents. Wanting to surpass itself is a crazy bet for Africans, they concluded. Arrogant or clueless, President Nicolas Sarkozy declared before an audience of students and teachers at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar: ‘The African man hasn’t entered history enough [...] He only knows the eternal repetition of time marked by the endless repetition of the same gestures and words.’ That was in 2007. For decades, armed only with reason, an intellectual often steps up to debunk prejudices, lazy readings, and dishonest frameworks used as false fronts by those who, like Nicolas Sarkozy or former journalist Stephen Smith, out of ignorance, contempt, or condescension, distort African reality. This intellectual is none other than the historian and political scientist Achille Mbembe. This heir of Frantz Fanon, Amílcar Cabral, Jean-Marc Ela, and Fabien Eboussi-Boulaga was born in 1957 in Cameroon, in the Bassa region. Marked early by the upheavals of a fratricidal war, Achille Mbembe became the guardian of the memory of martyrs. After brilliant studies in Paris, he went on to teach at the best American universities, but the call of the Continent was stronger than anything else. In Dakar, he once directed CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) before joining the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Even though the author of *Critique of Black Reason* (Éditions La Découverte, 2015) spends a few months at Duke University in North Carolina, his observation post remains South Africa. From Johannesburg, Achille Mbembe scrutinizes Africa and the whole world. A lucid observer with an elegant and generous pen, Achille Mbembe knows how to blend big and small history: ‘I was born one day in July, as the month was drawing to a close. It was 1957, in that part of Africa recently named ‘Cameroon,’ a memory of the wonder that seized Portuguese sailors in the 15th century when, sailing up the river near Douala, they couldn’t help but note the presence of a multitude of crustaceans, and named it *Rio dos Camarões*, meaning ‘River of Shrimp.’ I grew up in the shadow of this nameless land, since, in a way, the name it bears is only the product of someone else’s astonishment: a lexical mistake, if you will.’ From this mistake or wound, he made leaven, a springboard to compose a rich work, recognized worldwide. To denounce barriers and barbarians too. But that’s not enough. Among his peers in circles of thought and action, Achille Mbembe passionately and consistently defends human dignity and the beauty of the world. In doing so, he fulfills the mission Frantz Fanon entrusted to him.” (p.227-229),

as well as entries dedicated to lesser-known artists and intellectuals, like the French journalist and activist Rokhaya Diallo, daughter of Senegalese and Gambian parents, or the Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima, who has long lived in the United States. Other names from politics, sports, music, art, and literature: Kofi Annan, p.36; Barack Obama, p.243; Thomas Sankara, p.277; Ousmane Sow, p.285; Yambo Ouologuem, p.250; Léopold Sédar Senghor, p.282; Muhammad Ali, p.30; Nuruddin Farah, p.146; Salif Keita, p.203; Ahmadou Kourouma, p.206; Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, p.236; Winnie Mandela, p.224; Kylian Mbappé, p.226 ...

The authors, who resolutely commit to a “mythography” (p.11) of Africa, also pay special attention to local social movements, cultural events, and aspects of daily life. *Y’en a marre*, “which also meant ‘we’re fed up with sitting on our hands’” (p.320-321), emerged about a decade ago in Senegal as a citizen movement of peaceful resistance and symbolizes, the authors emphasize, the fact that African youth are increasingly fed up “with the political circus deployed in Africa since independence, as our parents would say, ‘since the White man left’...” (p.321). A full entry is dedicated to the Maggi bouillon cube, which has flooded African markets for about forty years and enjoys immense popularity (“It’s everywhere in Africa, from Dakar to Djibouti, and from Tangier to Cape Town. It’s in every pot, every stew. Little hands put it in every sauce, every local or adapted dish. An unchallenged hegemony! You’ll find it in diasporas too. The culinary strolls in Paris, in the [...] neighborhood” p.90). Critics blame it not only for impoverishing the aromatic diversity of local dishes but also for being harmful to health. And yet, “he poorest Africans, those who eat only once a day, a few spoonfuls of white beans and a ball of *foufou*, for example, are the most fervent users of the magic cube.” (p.92-93)

For *fonio*, “the new trendy cereal. [...] From the millet family, fonio is probably the oldest cereal cultivated in West Africa, and mainly in its sub-Saharan part, for millennia. [...] Easy to grow, water-efficient, fonio grows everywhere except on clay soils. Long neglected because it was considered the poor man’s crop, fonio is now a source of pride for the farmers who cultivate it and cherish it like the apple of their eye” (p.156-157), the authors immediately offer a detailed recipe, letting the reader know that “e can’t resist sharing this fonio with chicken recipe from Mali with you:

Ingredients: 1 chicken 3 large ripe red tomatoes 4 tbsp tomato paste 4 large onions 1 garlic clove 1/2 cup oil 2 Maggi cubes or salt 2 large carrots 1 turnip 1 large cabbage 2 large potatoes 1 celery stalk 1 packet pre-cooked fonio 4 okra (or okra powder) salt, pepper

Preparation: 1. Prepare the sauce: wash and cut the chicken. Peel the onions, garlic, and vegetables. 2. In a pot, fry the chicken pieces. 3. Dice the onions, tomatoes, carrots, and turnip very small and add them to the pot. 4. Add the tomato paste, salt, and pepper. 5. Simmer for 15 min, then add 2 L of water and the cooked chicken pieces. 6. Simmer for 30 min, then add the crushed garlic and celery, plus the cabbage cut into 4 and the potatoes cut in half. 7. Prepare the fonio: cover it with warm water, let it rest for 15 min, and cook it over low heat. 8. In a small pot, boil the okra and crush them. 9. Mix the crushed okra with the cooked fonio, then salt. Serve hot.” (p.158-159)

The comedy *Black Mic Mac*, released in French theaters in 1986 and addressing France’s increasingly restrictive immigration policy at the time, also gets an entry, as do *Tintin in the Congo*, the popular comic, and *Jip’s Café* (“[...] a little Africa in the heart of Paris, with passersby stopping to admire the ‘ambianceurs’ on the dance floor or attend the cultural events offered by the place” (p.194), an African establishment in Paris that Alain Mabanckou already immortalized in one of his novels.

The duo of authors also tackles thorny subjects like jihadism (p.119), the Rwandan genocide (p.272), the CFA franc (p.82), and dictatorship (p.110). While the two strike the right tone here, many entries leave a slightly bitter taste. Two examples: why doesn’t the text on Barack Obama mention the great disappointment of many people in Africa, who expected more from the African policy of the first U.S. president with African roots than just occasional warm words? Why do the comments on Winnie Mandela gloss over the fact that she was a highly controversial icon of the anti-apartheid movement due to her involvement in kidnappings, acts of torture, and murders of alleged apartheid collaborators? Instead, there’s a compassion that brings tears to the eyes: “She was often reduced to a secondary role, the wife of a great man” or “When victory came, she didn’t taste its fruits. Divorced, isolated. She would never be a ‘first lady’ in an evening gown, posing before a bed of chrysanthemums. They’d keep her far from the circles of power” (p.224-225). At this point, I would’ve liked the authors to take a slightly more critical stance...

That said, these “weaknesses” (if you can call them that) shouldn’t overshadow the book as a whole. It remains an informative, sometimes very entertaining, and often even original work in its own way.

Book information (the original French and the German translation):

Alain Mabanckou/Abdourahman Waberi. Dictionnaire enjoué des cultures africaines. Fayard, 2019. Alain Mabanckou/Abdourahman Waberi. Der Puls Afrikas. Eine Liebeserklärung von A bis Z. Reclam, 2022.

Hery
From Avignon to Casamance Without Flying
by Olive842 · 2026-04-10 · 18 replies
Hi there,

Last February, I made a trip using "public transport" from France to southern Senegal via Spain, Morocco, Western Sahara, and Mauritania.

It’s a journey of about 5,000 km, where I took trains (as far as Marrakech), ferries (to cross Gibraltar and then to reach Casamance from Dakar), and mostly buses on the long desert straightaways. I hadn’t planned any stops in advance or booked any hotels, except for the very first train to Spain, which left plenty of room for the unexpected. Why travel by land and sea? In recent years, flight-free travel has been gaining popularity. On social media, posts explaining how to cross Europe by train as quickly as possible go viral. Traveling without flying—and making sure people know about it—has become a great way to earn a badge of eco-responsibility: an essential totem for anyone wanting to prove both their dedication to the ecological cause and the wisdom of slow travel. I haven’t flown in years, and this journey to West Africa could easily be filed under "responsible travel." But it wouldn’t be honest to say that: in reality, it wasn’t really my aversion to flying that motivated this long trek. I see overland travel primarily as a way to experience the world’s geography at a grounded, earthly pace—the pace of the locals. Besides, I’ll be flying back, which disqualifies any claim to being a model of sustainability. So no eco-badge, and no adventurer’s badge either: you won’t find any heroic tales of camel rides in lost lands or mineral train wagons in this account (popular with influencers, the Mauritania iron ore train now attracts tourists from all over the world, turning "the experience" into something you "have to do at least once in your life"). This five-part story, written on the road, has no other ambition than to recount a journey through places and people, and to share the thoughts they inspire in me. As simply and, I hope, as humbly as possible.

I’m posting the episodes here, which you can also find on my blog (with more photos) at the following links:

Episode 1: Spain, from Avignon to Algeciras

Episode 2: Morocco, from Tangier to Tarfaya

Episode 3: Western Sahara, from Tarfaya to Guerguerat

Episode 4: Mauritania, from Guerguerat to Nouakchott

Episode 5: Senegal, from Rosso to Saloulou

To help those who might want to make the same trip, I’ve also put together a summary of the route with recommendations—you can read it at the end of the story and on the blog: From France to Senegal Without Flying: Route and Itinerary Recommendations

Happy reading, and safe travels!
One-month trip to Nicaragua – feedback
by Chantalram · 2025-03-13 · 15 replies
Hi everyone, There’s not much info out there on Nicaragua in general, which is why I posted my questions here on the forum... but didn’t get many answers since it’s tough to find any anyway. It’s a stunning country, but my experience was mixed. There are areas with very few tourists (which is exactly what we were looking for), but as a result, there’s almost no way to get around (unless you walk, and even that’s not easy or always possible) and no real tourist infrastructure. Finding info is nearly impossible—there’s practically nothing, so it’s hard to know what you’ll find in a given place, whether it’s worth taking a 12-hour bus ride across the country, only to turn around 48 hours later. The easy and pleasant spots: Granada, Ometepe, San Juan del Sur and the Pacific beaches, León, and the Corn Islands. These are the places mentioned in guidebooks (the rest is jungle to the east, not many roads south of the lake, and no boats on the lake either—except for the Rivas-Ometepe connection). Venturing off the beaten path is really tough. The Caribbean coast: aside from the Corn Islands (which are very touristy but not easy to reach by ferry from Bluefields), or if you want to take a flight with La Costeña, book in advance—there are often very few seats! The rest isn’t particularly satisfying, especially Pearl Lagoon, where swimming isn’t possible due to unsafe water. Don’t expect a postcard-perfect setting. But everything’s worth it if you have the time... Buses: there are plenty, and they’re super cheap—but be warned, they stop everywhere, take forever, and are loud (though kind of charming in a vintage way). Too many buses can ruin a trip. Lodges: affordable on a small budget, except in Managua and along the entire Caribbean coast! For example, beaches like El Tránsito (which is gorgeous) charge at least $50 or $60 per night for a basic room. Good to know. In Matagalpa, we tried to rent a motorcycle to get around—impossible. I asked everywhere, but there was no way. So we cut our stay short because once you’ve explored Selva Negra, there’s not much else to do (an 8-hour bus ride to see a waterfall? No thanks). These might seem like small details, but they really matter when you want to enjoy where you are and discover nice spots—you end up stuck. Bring plenty of mosquito spray + oral antihistamines: mosquitoes and bites are a *serious* nuisance. (I got over 200 bites in one go during a trip to a humid tropical forest, even though I was covered and protected.) All in all, it’s an adventurous, exploratory trip. The people are great, and we never felt unsafe (even though some travelers have had *really* bad experiences). I thought there’d be a carnival since it was the right time of year—nothing. No dancing, not festive at all (compared to Brazil, for example, it’s the complete opposite). We saw animals, but no toucans, for example! For a beautiful, pristine, and well-organized trip, everyone agrees—go to Costa Rica, but be prepared to pay a lot more. Nicaragua is something else entirely. For surfers, though, it’s amazing! Personally, I love watching fish in clear, calm waters, hiking in nature, and swimming—I think I picked the wrong destination, but I’m glad I got to experience this totally wild side of Central America! :-)
Pourra-t-on faire des croisières avant cet hiver?
by Madmax001 · 2020-04-07 · 27 replies
Croyez vous plausible que l'industrie de la croisière soit en conditions pour un démarrage en toute sécurité pour ses vacances d'été ? À entendre le secrétaire d'état aux transports, qui déconseille toute réservation pour cet été, on est pas prêt de voir ces grosses villes flottantes qui peuvent accueillir jusqu'à 6000 passagers......se balader dans nos ports en Méditerranée cet été. Désolé pour ceux qui comptaient partir (moi le premier). Heureusement j'ai pas réservé encore. Pour moi ça sera en dernière minute .....si jamais

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