Where Lake Nicaragua meets the Rio San Juan, the pueblo of San Carlos, home to 10,000 people is located.  This town can only be reached from Managua by a 10 hour bus ride, a 6 hour speed boat, 9 hour regular boat or 1 hour plane ride. We opted for the plane ride....and we were in for an adventure! Fom San Carlos we intended to head 3 hours down the river to El Castillo an old fort, and then onto the Indio Maiz Reserve. Our journey started out by a weighing session at the airport in Managua, to ensure that we would not overload the plane and ended with a bumpy landing on the dirt runway.  Below Rick weighs in To the right is an aereal shot of San Carlos

The landing strip (below)...also the equipment manager for the airport preparing for a flight arrival...

Above is a picture of the plane that we took off in...Rick and I were priveledged enough to get front row seats...just behind the pilots....we got to see all the landing action first hand.

Above is El Castillo one of the main attractions of the Rio San Juan

Ana and Christina

Above: Brian is pretending he is a wild boar, apparently the little benches constructed throughout the trails in the Reserva Indio Maiz are supposed to be a safe haven for hikers from wild boars...luckely we did not see any !!!

Right: Are the roots growing from a tree, in this case the roots grow out from the trunck down into the ground. Unfortunatly we did not catch the name of the tree....too busy thinking about the wild boars I guess  :)

Tom, Keisha, and Rick (above); Brian (below)

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