Again… the pick up arrived early in the morning. The drive to the border took 3 hours. For leaving the country you have to pay a fee of 7-10 US$ (no one knows why and how the amount changes from day to day), we ended up with paying 8 US$. The broder crossing took only 1 hour and a chicken bus was ready to go bringing us straight to the ferry for the lake Nicaragua crossing to Isla Ometepe. Chicken busses are old American school buses which get sold at auctions when they get too old. Many of these buses are bought and driven to Central America where they live the second lifes.
The Ferryride to Ometepe takes around 1 hour. Ometepe is an island formed by two volcanoes rising from Lake Nicaragua. The two volcanoes Concepción and Maderas form one island in the shape of an hourglass. Ometepe is 31 km long and 5 to 10 km wide.
The following 2 nights all of us had a home stay ( = staying with an local family). It’s a Planeterra-supported homestay experience. Planeterra is a non-profit organization that helps empower local people to develop their communities, conserve their environment, and provide supportive solutions to local problems (www.planeterra.org). The next day Niels and the other guys got picked up at 5:30 am for hiking volcano Concepción (post will follow soon), which is one of the highest volcanos of Nicaragua and also one of its most active ones. Since 1883, it has erupted at least 25 times (its last eruption was on 9 March 2010). While the guys hiked the Volcan Concepción the girls relaxed in the village.
Apparently exhausted from hiking the guys came around 6 pm. After having dinner and relaxing on the beach at the campfire we all called an early night.
First sight of Isla Ometepe from the port of San Jorge
Exhausted from the last days most of us took a nap on the ferry
Our room in the Planeterra-supported homestay. On our Veranda we had breakfast and dinner with our local family
Some impressions of the neighbourhood and the village …
The cute puppies from the neighboure came every day for a stroke and play
The right transporation for Eva
Dinner is not yet ready
Unbelivable, its mango season at the moment and they just fall from the trees and go off because the locals can´t eat all of the mangos 🙁 We had mangos every day and also took some with us. They were delicious!!!
The commone area were we relaxed in the hammocks and enjoyed the campfire at the beach 
Chicken bus
Someone needs alot of chocolate