New Years!!! After making the split decision to stay in Nicaragua and learn spanish for a month it was finally time to leave. Ingrid and I spent new years on the beach at Poneloya with fireworks and Champagne.
The next morning was a new year and it was time for me to find a new country. After a difficult and heartfelt goodbye to Ingrid I started my journey towards South America. Apparently everyone else in Central and South America began their journeys at the same time, because every bus I had to take was already booked. In Managua, Nicaragua all buses were booked to Panama and Costa Rica. But after waiting in the terminal from four in the morning I managed to get a standby bus ticket to Costa Rica. Arrived in San Jose around 5 pm on the 2nd to find that all buses to panama were booked. I tried to do standby for the 10 and 11 o´clock buses without luck. So I slept in the bus terminal, took a taxi to another bus station at 4 in the morning and caught a bus to the border at 5 am. After 2 hour of arguing at the panamanian border I managed to get into the country with a printout of a fake plane ticket from expedia.com (thanks for that tip Ben). Two buses and a taxi later I made it my hostal in Panama city at 1 am on the 4th. I spent the 4th trying to arrange a boat to Columbia. While waiting for replies from several boat captains I took a few hours to visit the Panama Canal.
All boats to Columbia were full except for the one with the drunk- theif captain. I gave up and bought a plane ticket. So after exactly three months of travelling I left Central America and arrived in Columbia on the 5th of January.
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