Happy Passover

OK... so it was like 2 weeks since my last update, and I spent them in Cancun and then back to the most amazing place so far, Playa Del Carmen and back again to Cancun for the Seder.

In this 2 weeks John (the Canadian guy) left back home, and I met Alon, good ARS guy from Bat-Yam. We had some snorkeling in stalactite caves, too many crazy parties, girls, too much alcohol and we even snicked into 5 stars hotels using there jacuzzi, watching the dolphins, eating steaks and drinking champagne, in 2 words Great Fucxxxx Time.

I was also went to a great show of bullfighting, a big bull turning into a steak, you could see the blood sparkling all over and how the bull is bleeding to death until the Matador stick the sword right in the center of the bull´s head. After the bull is totally dead they cut the ears and throw it to the crowd, so I hold the bleeding ears and took some photos with it.

The Lel Seder (Passover) was ok but not as I accepted it to be, I had to pay 18 dollars as a student else its 33 (well, you can pay less since its like a donation but then they give you the bad eye). It was in 5 stars hotel really cool place but the plates, glasses and SAKUM was from plastic and the food was horrible, actually when I think of it there was no food only chicken soup and chicken as main dish, with no side dish. well one good thing the Mazot was the best I have ever ate and the wine definitely maid the job. The Rabai read the AGADA, DEY BE HAUA and we sang some songs. It was really nice to meet once again all the israelis I met in other places in Mexico.

Very regretfully, since there was no food and I was still dead hungry, I had to end up my day with a Hot-Dog (probably even maid from pork). haa... and also the beers I had that day, so not even couple of Kosher hours for me.

Finally after a long journey, over too many electricity stores and checking around I found myself a small tiny, second hand camera, (probably stolen, but who gives a shit) just as I like. I found it in some dangerous street where all the drug addicts that steel stuff come to sell it for cheep. So now I have a cool IXUS 60 with 1 Giga SD card for only 140 bucks.

Hag Sameach from Cancun, Mexico
Eran

A picture is worth a thousand words - Cancun

Party time....

Well, wow... Playa Del Carmen, the most crazy party place ever in the world, even crazier than Thailand.
The drunkenness American and Canadian girls are so fucking crazy when they get drunk and oh... boy the stuff they do...!!!
So...I have been in almost every bar, club, disco and party over there and getting drunk until 06:00 AM every single day for 5 days.
Besides dealing with the hang over each morning my day was pretty boring, until the night after.

But in my last day in Playa Del Carmen I went to some Cenote (kind of lake) place which is similar to the SACHNE in Israel, I was snorkeling over there and also jumped from 4 meter cliff. I got to Cancun which suppose to be really dangerous at night, (I met a guy who almost got beaten to death, all his face is blue and purple) but I was walking there all by my own and felt really secure.

I went to the Coco Bungo club, more then 3000 people in a huge club with shows of the Matrix, Michel Jackson, Queen, Guns n Roses, The Mask and so on...
Great party, great dancing and once again tons of Americans, it was awesome.
The day after I hang around the beaches of Cancun, and took the ferry to Isla Mujeres.

 

In Isla Mujeres I rented a bicycles and explored the whole island, there is a turtle farm with huge sea turtles and also a cat shark that you can go and swim with it in the water.

I was holding the shark and a sea hedgehog (kipod yam) and had some pics with it.

 

Isla Mujeres is a quite tiny island with many israelis and a few israeli restaurants, good atmosphere that you can hooked to it really easy. Basically what we did is there is getting drunk, watching movies, soccer games and even the Maccabi game on the internet.

 

chao till next time,

EK

Viva Mexico

So, after being in Lanqin playing volleyball, chess (and yeah... wining once again, Elad), and doing the tubes, Me and Dotan (israeli guy I met on the hostel) left to Flores another town in Gutemalla. We went to see the temples of the MAYA people at the sun rise which mean to get up at fucking 02:30 AM, we got to the site at 05:00 and because of a lousy weather with too much fog, we couldn't see the sun rise but we heard all the jungle animals waking up, which was really nice. Then we explored all the Tikal site for 9 more hours and on the way we saw some monkeys, toucans and even a tarantula that I hold on my hands.

The Foggy Day at 05:00 AM

The day after me and Dotan left to Mexico, we took a shuttle bus that goes all the way throw Belize. Belize border was fucking expensive they charge from Israelis, Japanese, Swiss, and Brazilians 50 bucks (all the others nationalities can cross for free) for visa to get throw and yeah... only for one day pass so now if I´ll go there I will have to pay 50 dollars again.
On the way out from the country they charge 15 bucks more but this they take from all nationalities. well it was very expensive country for a very short visit.

Viva Mexico, ho yeah baby, if I said on Roatan - Honduras heaven on earth I guess that was only the intro, since Tulum and Playa Del Carmen are THE BEST PLACES EVER.

Take the best postcard you have ever seen in your life add to this girls in tiny bikinis, topless MILF, music, pineapple, bananas, nachos and corona beers, is there anything else missing in that equation, well I guess not.

We (Dotan, John and me) spent 4 days in Tulum on the beach, snorkeled and visiting the Maya ruins in Tulum then we moved to Playa Del Carmen, which is just like a normal American town with Starbucks, Wall Mart, MacDonald's and fancy hotels. ¨Back to Civilization, baby...¨ as John define it.

Adrenaline Day

OK, dudes I had today the most crazy day ever in my life, oh boy what a day...

I went to Samuc Champey fucking awesome place, at first we went inside a cave half full of water, it's totally dark inside so you get a candle that always dripping on you hot wax (which is kind of nice :->, if u know what I mean). You have to swim inside the darkness with one hand holding the candle and you always get stack in sharp rocks.
You can actually feel how Rambo felt on the movie Fist Blood in 1982, when he hide in the cave from the maniac sheriff.

Anyhow, after swimming, climbing on some waterfalls (still inside the cave), we get to the highlight of the cave which is jumping from a cliff to a small tiny pool. And yeah... as you all probably guessed it, me and my stupidity judgement, I had to jump it. It was totally craziness shit, and some how I managed to survive. (relax, many did it before me, although many others didn't, well the guide said it's safe). aha... and yeah I was the only stupid israeli who did it.

After the cave we did the tubes (ABOVIM), which was also nice since there was high current because it rained the day before.
Then we went to a 6 meters bridge and only the crazy mother fuckers jumped from that bridge even tough the rough current, and yeah once again I fucking did it (Sorry mom, dad & Savti, for not keeping my promise).

It wasn't the end since after all that crazy stuff we did, we went to see the rough waterfall, swim in the amazing turquoise color pools, and hike to the view point where you can see them all from above.

In conclusion, fucking adrenaline day !!!

Happy Purim

Hola, so... I spend more than a week in San Pedro a tiny village full of Israelis. I ate in a resort called ZooLa (the palace where Yehoda & Ninet crashed in when they were in Guatemala) almost every kind of israeli food you can think off, like Falafel, Humus, Sabij, Jerusalem Mix and Shaksuka.

Lake Atitlan with the locals of San Pedro doing the laundry.

San Pedro is a very chip town you can retire and go out pension, most of the day you are spending by watching movies, football games, drinking beer and parties at night in the Buddha Bar.

And when you get bored from that you just rent a kayak, going hiking and riding a horse.

And if that took too much pressure on your mussels you can just go and do the Hot Stone Massage which was the most relaxing experience I have ever had, by a cute girl named Andrea from Canada. (Elran you should go there only for massage).

After San Pedro I went to a nice local town, Panajachel which is also located on lake Atitlan, it was full of local tourists and it was totally full because of the Semana Santa which is the most holly week in the year, even more than Christmas. It was a big operation to find hotel for a decent price, but wow... the parties over there was awesome.

Right Now, I am in Lanquin, a tiny village located on a river, I'm staying in a El Retiro a great resort totally green and with ecological bathroom, which mean you have to dump into a hole and after to throw some lime powder on it against the smell. I guess they use it not to pollute the river.

This morning I also explored Lanquin Caves, which is a 500 meters long with full of bats.

till next time,
Nos vamos,
Eran

Bienvenido a Guatemala

Hola from Guatemala,

So... I have been in Antigua, which is a nice city and they had the Santa Semana holiday while I was there which was totally cool.

Tons of Guatemalan people that came for the holiday, 3 times bigger than our independence day.


I also went to Volcano Packaya which was awesome, you get really close to the lava you actually can touch it, I brought with me some lighters, hot dogs and marshmallow.

I trow the lighters to the lava and it maid great explosion, I baked hot dogs on the lava and even maid some good marshmallow.

Movie from the Pakaya: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ5XHJhS6tI

The lava is floating like in the movies and it almost melt my shoes and fell all over me.







John a friend I met in Nicaragua came to meet me here and we went to San Pedro a small hipi´s town, that sits right next to Atitlan Lagoon, it´s full of Israelis, and I even found here a good Humus and Falafel.

up until next time, Shalom,
EK

The Last week in Honduras

So... the last week in Roatan was totally great I met Felix from Germany, Anna from England, Nico from Italy and Leo from Guatemala.
The last guy Leo was totally cool, smoking joints for breakfast and pretty much all day long. Nico always cooked for us Italian food, pizza and pasta, and even Felix and Anna cooked for me dinner once, also pasta with great red wine.

One of my day I even burn on a 6 hours chess games with a very old guy from Canada named Gee, he lives most of the year on this island, and already traveled in half of the world except Israel (but I guess he will come over after what I told him).
Anyway, yeah Elad I even manage to beat him few times, and he said I am a good competitor.

After Roatan island and my diving course, me Leo and Nico left to Copan Ruinas to see the Maya temples, which was nice I guess, but only to said been there done that. The day after I went to lovely spa place on nature, hot burning waterfall, which was fucking amazing.

The day after I took a shuttle bus for a 6:30 hours on the road, it was a nightmare but I guess much easier than the last borders I crossed on local buses. I got to Antigua in Guatemala at 18:30 and found out that my fucking giant bag got broken, so I had to carry it on one shoulder. (looks like a sign to finish my trip and come back home). But don't worry I won't come back so soon because of a bag, I found today a tailor (actually he was SANDLAR) and he fixed my bag, (it was only one plastic that got broken) so I can continue traveling.

From first site of one day around the city, Guatemala looks pretty much as all the other center America cities, but one good thing then the other cities I have been so far it reminds me Thailand since they have here lots of restaurants that shows the latest movies from the cinema.
And... actually I just found myself the great American restaurant in the whole wide world... oh yeah, I bet you guessed it, the one and only Macdonald's. They have it all in here, TV showing the champions league soccer games, 5 computers free of charge Internet with LCD screen, and of course great delicious meals.
What can a man ask for more ?
Well, they did give a mess a bit, since I had to find how to cross over their firewall that blocks the entry of all kind of web based email, so after reading a while and doing homework I managed to log in to my GMAIL.

More from Guatemala will come up soon, up until then adios,
EK

Bienvenido a Honduras

Hola from heaven on earth, Roatan Island.

 

Where the sand is white and shine like gold, the water is clear and transparent more the Mei Eden bottle and the tourists are rich American with tons of dollars. Yeah, it's not a backpackers place but it's definitely a great nice island to visit and to make a diving course.

 

Oh yeah, I took the diving course which was fucking amazing, great adventure with lots of practise underwater what to do in case of emergency like you have no air, no mask or if you losing all you gear.

I even had to read a huge book in English and to had an exam, I nearly failed, I got only 76 while the pass is from 75.

Anyway, the reef here is great, nice giant fish with tons of colors, and the feeling is like swimming in aquarium.

 

My first night in Honduras was in the capital city Tegucigalpa, I met 3 Israelis that just came from this haven (Roatan Island) and they told me not to miss it. So basically we talked and played cards all the evening and then at 23:00 we felt hungry and I suggested to go out to have some food even tough the lonely planet says be careful it's a dangerous city and all that shit.

The other Israelis didn't like the idea but I managed to convince the guy to come with me and that we will bring some food for us and the girls that was too afraid to come out with us. So after the guy took a pepper spray (GAS MADMIAA - in case we will get attack) of his girlfriend, we went out from the hostel and started to walk 25 meters, then I saw a nice decent guy, looks good with cellular and asked him in Spanish "Besculpe Senyor donde esta el comida?" (Excuse me sir, where is food?) he didn't look at me at the first time so I asked more loudly the same question, then he just put two fist in the air and get into a combat position like he want to attack me. When I saw this I got panic and cross the street, after 2 seconds the police came out of no where.

At first I was so happy, wow what a great protection and safe city, but then 3 police officers came out of the car and each one of them grabbed one of us (one on the local guy, and two on me and the other Israeli guy). The police did a body search on us, and we felt like Arabics in the SHTACHIM. The police asked us for passport and we both didn't have it on us, I tried to convince them in my broken Spanish to come to our hotel which is only 25 meters from the incident, but with no luck. They wanted to arrest us and take us to the police station, but after 10 minutes of explaining to them that we are sorry and it will not happen again and it's my first night in Honduras and I just went out to grab some food, and my passport is not on me because it's dangerous to carry it on in this danger city, and all that shit. I just told them ok let me go back to sleep, I'm sorry and they just let us go. We had luck somehow but unfortunately we went to bed hungry and on empty stomach.

 

till next time, Adios,

EK

Last night in Nicaragua

Long time no speak since my mind was busy on other things.
Carmel left me to Costa Rica, and I´m all alone once again but I hope only till my next stop in Honduras.
I wanted to cross the border today but it was too late, so I had to stay the night in small local town that seems like I am the only tourist in here, but for the first time after 2 months I found myself a giant room with Hot shower (yeah, up until now since Montaverde in Costa Rica I was showering in cold water).

In the last week and a half me and Carmel was in Granada and San Juan Del Sur. In Granada me and Eddie found some good night life and discotechs which was really fun, and we went to one of the lakes of Nicaragua and played some chess, yeah, once again I won.

San Juan Del Sur is an amazing place with great beach and we spend there the last week, nice clear very cold water and beautiful beach. Most of the time me and Carmel got ourselves drunk with beers, slept the afternoon and watched movies in our great room that I used to clean everyday.

In the weekend we had a huge party of Harley Davidson bikers from all over america, it's was so cool to see there pices and many came from all over central america. Finally a good party like in israel that you pay entry and then have free drinks all night.

see ya,
EK

Nica - Ragua

Hola mi amigos, ¿que paso? (Shalom my friends, MA KORE ?)
Aki para Nicaragua todo bien (here in Nicaragua everything is good).

So...my last week was so chilled out and Tranquilo, Carmel (a cute girl I met in Israel that came to travel with in Nicaragua), me and Eddie (Turkish guy that lives in Munich and we met in the hostel) got hooked up to the Lazy Bones Hostel, because of the swimming pool.
But...since I can´t sit to much on my ass while doing nothing I went to sand boarding which was suppose to be real fast and cool but I lost my balance all the time and rolled over in the sand couple of times and lost all the momentum, even though it was pretty nice view of a volcano and good attraction.
The day after I took them by force (since I got so bored sitting all day on the air mattress in the pool and reading a book I got from Tomer, Israeli guy that had so much weight and couldn´t carry his bug) to Leon Vicho (the old Leon city that got ruined after the volcano explode) it was nice and it´s was nice expirence to see the poor village of Nicaragua.


The weekend we spent in Los Paintes nice peacful village that sit right on the beach, we had fucking close room to the water you could hear the waves all night (MAMASH BE MERCHAK YERIKA ME AYAM).

It was so peacful and quite, I almost finished the book I got (as you all know I never ever read a book in my life!). In the rest of the time we played checkers with one of Nicaraguan employee that always bits us, and chess between each other (me & Eddie).
BTW: 4 wins in a row, so prepare yourself Elad!
We also drunk lots of cocktails & beers while getting tan and listening to mp3 music.


Right now, we are in Granada another city that I already been here but never had the chance really to travel in it. Granada really reminds me the classic Europe since it all looks like from the middle age (YEMI ABENAEEM) just like in Amsterdam, Barcelona or even Paris, but of course they have here tons (as many as we have street cats in Israel) of street dogs dying for food and a lot of dirt and sewage that floating in the middle of the street.


thats all for now,
EK

The living in Nicaragua

Till now Nicaragua looks so much different from Panama and Costa Rica, it's a poor country and lots of kids here are working in the streets selling food, drinks and anything they can, just to make a small profit. The other kids just will walk around you until you gonna give them a coin, unfortunately many of this kids are sleeping in the streets.
Lots of women here are also selling almost anything while they carry the basket on their head with no hands, basically it's like a mobile PIZUZZEIA (you can find in the basket fruits, drinks, chocolate bars and cigarettes).

In the last week (I spoke so much English until my teeth hurt) I went with Andy (the Canadian guy) to Masaya and we saw the active Volcano of Masaya which was pulling out so much gas and to some caves that maid after the last explosion of the mountain in 2002.
For the first time in my life I even saw a baseball game, (the national sport here) between Managua (the capital city) to Masaya it ends up 6:0 and Managua won the championship.

After Masaya city we went to Leon, another great city which was the Capital city of all the Latins America countries, until one of the wars.
I have here the best hotel I have ever had, (since I landed in the area) with swimming pool, pool table, free international calls, hammocks all over, 5 pc´s for free internet and last but not list a cable TV with DVD for only 6 bucks a night in dorms.

Yesterday I catched another chicken fight and gambled a bit (with some German guy). I won twice and one was drew, this time the place was authentic but I came with an organized tourists group (I took it only because of the atmosphere and the free booze that was include in the package). But... as a big idiot I went their on empty stomach (which was probably good because that's why I didn´t had anything to puke) and got my self so fucking drunk from beer and some other see trow local drink. In the end I found myself with all the tourists in a restaurant while they were eating I was sleeping with head on the table and they loughed at me on how israelis good in gambling but don't know how to drink.

till next time, adios
Eran

Welcome to Nicaragua

OK, so as you all probably know I left Santa Cruz (the Rodeo town in Costa Rica) and saying good bye to the two chicks Isabel and Xaviera that told me about this great town and also from Yaron the israeli guy I was traveled with for the last month.
BTW: I got a free massage from Isabel which is her profession and learned some new dancing moves in salsa from Xaviera.

Anyway, I was heading to the border in the public bus which was a nightmare ride, because there were no tickets for the tourist bus.
when I was getting the border, I had to walk like a 1km by foot with the all the bugs and to wait in a huge line. Surprisingly they even had some duty free shops but the price of my camera I wanted was damm high.

After 12 hours on the way (plus waiting for buses) I got to Granade in Nicaragua which happened to be a real nice Colonial City with lots of character.

I met here Andy (a guy from Canada) and we were going to Masaya which is another city not far a way, we were in the market and also getting to a cock routsh fighting (which means chickens fights), it was so fucking cool to watch two roosters chickens fighting until death.
They were pecking each other and heading to each others neck, plus they had a small knife so they could kill more efficiently.
The gamblers in the fight keeps yelling in Spanish: Vamos (come on), kill him, finish him, and they starting to yell each other after the fight end. Every 5 minutes there is a short break so the chicken can rest a bit and getting clean her from the blood (actually they sucking and spiting out the blood from the injury chicken neck) and making her ready for the next round.
When we asked what they do with the dead chicken they said eating it !!! fucking gross !

After the fights we went back to our hotel on the roof of a bus, because there was no space inside. All the way we had to save our heads from the trees but it was so fucking fun.

Till now Nicaragua seems like really interesting place, it´s also the second (after Haiti) poorest country in all the west side of the globe.

Rodeo in Santa Cruz

Hi there,

 

long time no speak since I didn´t want to bored my stupid friends (Elad and Yoav - Antoine).

 

Anyway, in the last week I have been in Tamrindo a great beach town with lots of rich Americans that coming there for a short visit as we in Israel are used to go to Turkey.

 

Most of the days I spent by lying on the beach or walking miles on the beach to other beaches, surfing and dancing salsa at night.

 

After Tamrindo we went to Playa Samara a small chill out town, on the way we met 2 local girls that told us about a big Festival that taking place these days on Santa Cruz.

 

So after visiting in Samara and chill out for a while we went to Santa Cruz a cowboys town with only Costa Rican people that came for the Festival. it was a mess to find a room here  since it was full or too much expensive, but with some help of Isabel (the local girl we met on the bus from Tamrindo) she found us a lousy room for a descent price.

 

The atmosphere here in this town is amazing loud music every where you go and tons bottles of Imperial beer (the best Costa Rican beer), open market that selling bunch of stuff, and a Luna Park.

 

Now to all that add the Rodeo Arena that taking place in the middle of the town.

We went to a show of the bulls and saw many people get injured, flying in the air by the bull or just getting ran over by the mad bulls.

Today we even got inside the arena while the bulls are inside, it was so fucking amazing and you could fill the Andernaline in your bones crossing by.

 

Yaron, even got injured in the leg from the bull but I guess he will survive. I also touched the bull (only when it was tied up) and arras him a bit :-)

 

At night I used my dancing lessons in Salsa that I took in Israel and showed off on the Costa Rican girl.

 

till next time, adios

Eran - Santa Cruz

Snorkeling in Playa Del Coco

Ok, so playa del coco was our last destination of the 4 of us together before the splitting (Alex back to New York, and Ofir to Mexico).

we went to a small town which was suppose to be good for diving but I guess Merfi´s Low is catching us every time, since the visability was sucks for diving.

But I did manage to snorkel a bit and see some nice colors in the water of fish and plants.

In the evening we went out and separated from Ofir and Alex, now it´s me and Yaron and we just got to big beach town called Tamarindo.

 

Surf baby surf....(and not on the net)

ohhh yeah baby, I surfed on the waves of Santa Tereza.

We rented a surf board and trying surfing on the waves, it cost me and Ofir a lot in our body injuries but... I guess we survived.

 

I got the board in my head few times and even in the chin which make me spit some blood, and drink tons of sea ocean water.

Ofir also got few blue injuries (Shetef Dam), but we both ok, I guess.

I even managed to catch few waves for couple of seconds, and it was so fun. 

 

Happy New Year - 2008

oh....yeah, as you all guessed up, I did get drunk as horse.

 

We went to the biggest party in the area, which was 1 hour far but only 14 kilometers because of there bad roads here.

I met 2 Argentinian girls that brought good authentic alcohol (wine and vodka) from Argentina, and we all started getting booze together.

We drunk it all plus much more in the party, I got myself so damm drunk but manged to control it and not threw up (on hilla's leg :-)).

Somehow I even managed to take a taxi and come back home (hotel) safely.

 

BTW: as I promised the pics staring to come, so check down and see the canopy I did in Monteverde.

 

Muntezuma

Hola mi amigos,

I'm in Muntezuma now, a great place for parties, relaxing and lying on the beach while doing nothing.

We (Alex, Yaron, Ofir, Casy) will be here till the new year since there is a big giant party on the beach right next to us, hope it will be great over there.

today we hiked to see 2 nice waterfalls in the nearest park.

till next time, I wish a Happy new year, and that all your wishes come true in this year.

Eran

P.S: no pics until Alex go back to the states which will be on the 07/01/2008.

Playa Manuel Antonio

Merry Christmas,

 

Me, Yaron and Alex came to Playa Manuel Antonio which suppose to be the second beautiful beach in the world as some american girl told us.

 

It's really nice place tough very expensive and boring at night since there are lots of American families coming to travel here.

 

Most of the time we are lying on the beach and getting tan, I even got my self really burn from the boiling sun.

 

There are lots of monkeys here even on the main street which is really nice, but it's too quite for me so we gonna leave tomorrow to somewhere else with much more action.

 

BTW (Elad): The class 4 rafting I did was really dangerous since it was heavy rain most of the time.

 

I wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year.

 

EK

woooo haaaaa...... what a rush !!!

oh man, oh man, oh man, what an excitement. Me, Yaron and Alex (2 israelis I met) went today to do the Rafting (Class IV), on the best river in Costa Rica. The floating in this river, Toro is so fast like you can not imagine (not the bullshit stuff for family trip in Kfar Blum on Ramat Hagolan).

Me, Alex, Yaron

The raft is for 6 people + a guide, that suppose to give instructions on how to paddle. We had a young instructor that had several mistakes and made us fall over to the rough water twice, plus we lost some team members all the time since they fell off, after every bump into a big rock. It was a very cool, danger river and a very extreme experience.

The crew members

We were the only team that where upside down twice, while all the other teams were rafting regularly.

Me after the first falling while one the guides yelled at me: ¨Swim mother fucker swim¨


Me, Yaron and Alex (israeli that lives in New York) got ourselves few bruises while getting hit by the big rocks, but I guess we will live.


I have lots of pics during the rafting that one of the crew members took all the time and I gonna share it as soon as he will send it to me.

BTW: The day before yesterday we went to see the lava of the Arenal Volcano during activity, and it was nice to see kind of fireworks from the mountain.


Merry Christmas from Costa Rica,


Eran

La Furtuna - Areanal

two days ago I went to see the wild life in the cloud forest, it was a bit frighting since there are lots of Tarantula and other species but we did managed to catch some living in the woods.
The day after I left to a town called La Furtuna that has a big volcano mountain.
I will go hike on this mountain this afternoon, and yesterday I spent my day in relaxing at the Bladi hot springs (something like Hamat Gader but much nicer).

Monteverde & Santa Elena

OK, so I left David as you wanted me to do, and I took a 5 and half hours bus to Senta Elena which was a nightmare after getting used to a comfortable air con 4X4 jeep.

I found myself the cheapest room ever, 5 bucks for single room + hot water.

Santa Elena is a small town that located 6 km from the biggest rain forest of Costa Rica.
I woke up really early today and took a trip to that rain forest which called Monteverde.
At that trip I took the Canopy (Omega), which was so amazing plus there was a Tarzan Swing (kind of free fall from side to side) which was fucking awesome.

I got some digital pictures that a french guy took for me and he will send it to me in 10 days.After that I took the walking path which has 8 high bridges at the height of the trees so you could see the forest from above.

The Nature of Costa Rica

Yesterday night was Festival De La Luz, a walking parade with people from all around Costa Rica that came to wave to the crowd.

 

I taught it will be like a mini carnaval but it was very much boring.

 

Anyhow, this morning me and David went out to see a Volcano but we didn't get it so we just walked to one of the waterfalls we found in the way. We walked all the way down to the river and then realized I left my swimming suit back in the car.

but... it did not stop from me to get inside to the cold refreshing water since I put off all my clothes and getting my self all naked.

We waited for some 'Kosiot' to come over and warm us, but the nature was cruel to us and we were all alone with pure nature and lots of bugs.

 

BTW: Costa Rica is so far behind in technology (they still sell the huge monitors for computers) so all the digital cameras here are so old models and fucking expansive.

So I bought myself the good old fashion camera (for 15$ including 2 films of 36 pictures), totally manual and it even works with no batteries.

Pura Vida - Life Is Good

Pura Vida is the saying everybody says here in Costa Rica which means "Life is Good".
I'm in San Jose now - the capital of Costa Rica, just got here like 2 hours ago.

The last 4 days I was in Bocas Del Toro a great island in Panama, but it was sucks since I lost my camera on the first day over there plus it was raining everyday, all day. :-(

I had like 3 or 4 beers for breakfast, so I kind of lost my mind and put my camera on the bench in the fire department (yes, it's also a bar) of Bocas Del Toro, I left the place and like 5 minutes after I remembered it was there but... the bastards already took it.
I asked them and they all deny it had been left over there.

Anyhow, the fireman that drank with me beer said it's there but he can't give it to me since he has pressure on him from above (probably his boss) and told me go to the police. So I did it, and it took me like 3 hours to give a statement and all the bullshit around.

BTW: the fireman got arrested also to give a statement and he was locked up for a day since he was stoned from marijuana.

So, I was going the fire department and the police like everyday to ask about my lovely tiny camera but with no luck.
It looks like the police took my case as primary issue since they brought the Panamanian FBI to the island and they had a few lead of investigation.

Even Ronald's (fireman) mom got involved and she invited me to her house and said she will investigate her son and see how she can help me to solve the problem. I do want to believe it will come up someday and I will get an email, "We found your camera", but I guess I should be realistic and buy myself a digital camera with all the new gadgets inside since it will never come up.

beside that pity incident, the rest was quite fine (except for the lousy weather), there were tons of Israelis and we celebrate Hanuka, and had few parties. after Bocas Del Toro, me and David drove to the border of Costa Rica and met the bureaucracy way of Panama, it took us a day to fix the car paperwork, but eventually we managed to cross the border.

Till now, the people of Costa Rica looks really nice and the girls here are much more hot than in Panama. Me and David swam today on nice beach in Costa Rica, but since there was no sun and the wind was so rough, the waves was really really high and David almost got drown.

more stories will come soon, till then Buenus Nuches from San Jose, Costa Rica.

EK

Happy Hanukkah

Happy Hanukkah from Panama City,

 

Yesterday was the first candle but I we couldn't find any candles to lit up.

Today we called to Beit Habad and asked them when are they lightning the Hanuckaia but... we didn't get invited.

 

I met yesterday some Israelis that went to the Beit Knesset, they asked for their passport to prove the are really Jewish and after all this procedure they didn't got invited inside for the pray.

 

It's a fucking closed society and they are not want any strangers even though we are Jew, so all I can say is fuck holidays and fuck the religion.

 

But at least today I found a Dunkin Donates store and I bought myself 2 donates (Sofgania) and I celebrate Hanukkah in my own way :-)

Kassco Veiech - The Old Panama City

OK...so well shell I start, yesterday evening I went with David to the old city and over there I asked from old Panamanian man to take us photo, than he started to ask from where am I and we heard I´m Israeli he and his friends was thrilled and we had a small chit chat.

He offered to take us around and showed us all the historic places and told us the story that was behind each exhibit, building and street.
It´s was great and so much fun to travel with him until he offered us to go up to hotel he knows the manager, and he will allow us to go up the top floor and see the view of Panama City.

We were thrilled and took the offer, and all 5 of us (me, David, Old man, his friend and his wife) went together to the elevator plus the guard of the hotel.

we pressed the top floor which happened to be only 4, and in the middle between 3 to 4 we got stuck.
the woman that was with us happened to had klastropopia so she got stress a bit and prayed to god. her husband has High Sick (Pachad Gvaeem) and when we open the moving door and looked down he got panic. The old nice man suffers from high level pressure and he started also to panic and sweat and he took his short off. The guard was quite was you could see he his in stress, and David got panic because of the old man that almost died on us.
And I was so chilled out and looked at everybody losing there minds, and loughed to myself.
David tried to break the door, and the old man tried to bread from this door to get some fresh air.

While they are trying to use their cellulars and called for help, Candy a nice English girl came for us and brought us some water with plastic bags.
After more than half an hour the police, the fire department and the technicians of the elevator came for the rescue mission.

All of us survived and their stress gone over, we drunk Coca-Cola together and lough at what just happened. As you can all guessed probably we didn´t go the top floor and I never got to see the city from above.

BTW: send me some updates about what´s going on Israel, stock market, sports, when is Hanukkah, family, friends, Tambour and all the shit.

Adios Amigos,
Senior Eran

Trip to Taboga and to the Casino

Yesterday morning I wake up really early to catch the boat to Taboga an island that is near by Panama City.

but... as usually me and David missed it by 3 minutes, so we had to wait another 2 and a half hours. This island is really really nice and with clean blue water. It reminded me Koh Phi Phi in Thailand.

We rest and getting tan there most of the day, then we went to David's friend an old American guy that lives on this island with his dying wife. We drunk beer together, swim in his pool and had a few loughs about the bad system in America and how it's so expansive to live in the states.

In the evening I went to the casino (because on Sunday some how all the clubs are closed) for first time in my life a real casino, It was great experience, I started at the Black Jack table with 15 dollars and I won few rounds but lost it all in half hour. Then I took my quoter's and started to play on the slots machines, and on my second try I won 50 coins :-) i was so happy but after I calculated how much it is I realized it's only 12.5 dollars and I'm still behind with what I came with. So I continued to play on a poker machine and the horse race and all the casino but with no real luck and then out of nowhere I become broke again :-(

In the end I lost totally 20 bucks, but at least I got 2 free drinks so yeepee to me.

Some other Israelis that I met there lost 65 dollars each, so I guess I had luck I didn't went out with all my money on me that day.

December First

Hooo boy what a day, a bad one.

Me and David planned to go to an island with his car and by boat.

But...as usual we got lost and got ourselves to a bad neighborhood, luckily we managed to get out but then we got lost the way again and the started to fell apart.

we decided to go back to the city and go to a mechanic to fix it, but.... we took the wrong direction of the road an a police officer stopped us.

we asked for his mercy, that we are new in town and all the bullshit stuff but it didn't work till he checked my passport and saw I'm Israeli and i have a birthday today.

he started to like us, and he helped us to find a mechanic. before he left he came to us and said "Come to drink coffee with me" in other word he meant give me some bribe.

anyhow, as a good Israelis we just thanked him and shacked hands.

than most of the day spent in the garage in traveling all around the city to look for the part that got broken.

The day is not over yet, but worse than this morning i guess it can't be.

Everyday i find myself here on the computer fixing and updating and I even helped them yesterday to install the wireless network.

wow... right now David came with his car fixed.

we will see how the day is gonna change now.

see ya,

EK

BTW: Elran, yes the slippers were great on the flight, and even after the long walk in new york and panama city it felt so great.

As you can see my day did change for good cause I met her

Second day on Panama

Ok, so yesterday morning I started by meeting the 3 religish israelis guys that reminded me how to "PUT THFILEEN" and pray to god.

 

I did it in order to start my trip on "REGEL YAMIN". 

 

After that I went out and saw the ugly side of the so fucking polluted city, In the evening I met David Israeli business man that do dental stuff and we ate a "GRAN DE" (big) fish (with bones and the head and all the stuff that I never used to touch) in a good restaurant.

 

Today I have been in a nice clean area of 3 islands that are connected by a road that the Americans built.

 

I also been in the "New Panama" the richest side of Panama City with lots of shopping malls, big skyline building that made by the Jewish mind people.

 

The people hre in the guesthouse are changing here everyday, till now there were 6 Israelis, 4 french guys, 1 italiano, 1 Venezuela, and 1 from England.

 

Tomorrow is my birthday, and i don't know how will i celebrate it.

 

Adios till next time.

 

EK

 

 

 

 

 

Hola from Panama City

I just woke up here and its raining now. hope it will change later.

Ive been in new york and it was great, my legs are still dead from how much i walked over there.

I saw ground zero, the fifth Ave. the librety statue, time square and so much more.

Gilefsky... I also been in the J and R store. haaa.... by the way I played the Wii and its cool i actually played boxing and made a sweat.

I also played the XBOX which looks great just as the PS3, the Wii was the more fun then the else.

anyhow, right now im in a place that reminds me the army, its free internet and there are some israelis they are all a sleep now.

i will keep in touch, Adios Amigos

EK

The night before the flight

It's 03:16 now...

I'm dead tired and still on my fucking computer can't leave him alone for a moment.

still downloading, updating and doing stuff that he will not miss me.

My bag is not ready yet, and my room is so fucking mess and I have to get up early tomorrow morning to finish the last arrangements.

Anyhow, till the next time that probably be in "The big apple" - New York or Panama City,

I'll say to you Adios.

EK