back to nature was for the english girls very dissappointing. it was not what they expected because the village was a bit boring, like some seperated houses and less infrastructure. wasn't easy to find a good place, the recommended hostels were full and we stayed in a only room hostel the first night. chilled around and played some cards. in the middle of the night tom wanted to eat something, we borrowed the Scooter from Pedro and went to the next closed hostel. tom droped the moto on the ground and i decided to be the driver after that. the little Morgans hadn't any food aswell but tom invited me to the promissed beer and we talked with some american girls.
the second day started with a run throug the 'village' and on the Beach. we moved to hostel Santa Cruz, which has the same Name as the village. it was better and after breakfast the englisch girls, Charlie and i considered to rent a Scooter. the only local bike rental had only one cross bike, so Charly made the Shuttle service for us to ojo de agua. ojo de agua was a nice spring with two big pools. i met Dany there and we talked a bit in german, i liked it in that moment. we swam in the clear water and drank a coco loco, thats a coconut with rum and evaporated milk, delicous! in the evening we played cards and Steve showed us funny card Tricks.
the hike on the vulcano maderas wasn't a walk in the Park. we started at our hostel at 7:30 h and hiked up 4 h. it was partly very humid and wet and muddy. we slid through the deep djungle between rocks and trees and sometime it was near by climbing. on the top we had a beautiful view on the lake in the crater. this view is often Misty and you cannot See anything, the guide told us. we went happy back and the guide said that we can go by our own and we did it. sounds easy, but it wasn't because we didn't find the way back. surprisingly we went through some farms and over cow patures and asked the locals for the way. i stayed one more night and went with the guys from the hike to a very alternativ hostel with big fresh pizza. a girl told us about her how to change the world project far in the future....
