Route: Bus from Costa Rica to Border (Penas Blancas)- San Juan Del Sur - Granada -Managua - Honduras

Total Number of Days: 5
***See below for breakdown

Budget
Overall Average Per Day: $27

Interesting Expenditures:

• Cost at Border (Visa and Other Fees): $8
• Average Cost of Room: $8.80/person
• Average Food per Day: $7.30
• Average Spent on Water Each Day: $1.03
• Average Spent Alcohol Each Day: $2.10

Food and Drink: We didn’t have a lot of time to find or try Nicaraguan specialties, and they weren’t easy to find in the gringo-areas where we were staying.  We tried the fried cheese but weren’t big fans; however, we were told that other types of cheese were better fried than the one we had been served.

Must Eats:

• Gallo-Pinto is a rice and beans breakfast specialty that we liked.  You can find it on almost any breakfast menu.
• Flor de Cana Rum: This is a Nicaraguan Rum and it’s very tasty. 

Highlights: 

• Making it over the border safely with Jenny and Jerry
• Surviving a black out over rum drinks with Nikki and Jess
• Pigging out on American food in the air-conditioned Road House Grill in Granada

Best Deals: 

• Flor De Cana Rum: Usually hard liquor is out of our price range, but Flor de Cana wasn’t, especially when shared among friends.  You can buy half bottles of it with two cokes for $7 in a bar.  We split a half bottle four ways and it was enough.

Calendar of Events:
June
30 - Liberia, Costa Rica to San Juan Del Sur

July
1 - Bus to Granada
2,3 - Granada
4 - Granada to Tegucigalpa, Honduras