{"id":1016,"date":"2014-10-27T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palarran.com\/log\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2014-10-27T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:58:10","slug":"volcano-boarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/palarran.com\/log\/volcano-boarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcano boarding."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After leaving El Salvador and a brief one week stop in Honduras. We checked in to Nicaragua. Our port of entry was a small industrial town of Corinto. We left the boat anchored in an Estuary near a place called Paso Caballo and took a bus to Leon, Nicaragua. Pretty cool little town. They totally have their fingers on the pulse of the tourist\/backpacking hostel crowd there.<\/p>\n<p>We found a hostel to stay for a day or two and then found a guide company to take us up to the top of the nearest volcano (Cerro Negro) to do a bit of hiking and then once at the top, &#8220;snowboarding&#8221; down. When I say snowboarding I what I mean is, the exact opposite, in every way.<\/p>\n<p>Snow = Volcanic rocks<br \/>\nFluffy = hard<br \/>\nWhite = Black<br \/>\nCold = Hot as balls<br \/>\nFast = Not fast<br \/>\nSoft fully snow = Black hot as balls volcanic rock.<\/p>\n<p>The hike up was very cool, awesome views of the other surrounding volcanoes and the flat green planes stretching out for miles in every direction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/pxWfu3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3944\/15457601810_8b5b5ea6c9_z.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0007\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once at the top a small rain storm rolled through (of course). After about a 15 minute wait for that to clear up, we started down the mountain on our volcano boards. <\/p>\n<p>But not before putting on our awesome volcano boarding suits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/pxTniY\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5605\/15457039438_b93ebdf718_z.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0015\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took a few videos and edited them together. I&#8217;ll warn you now, if you are prone to epileptic fits, sea sickness or have any sort of aversion to shitty videos, do not watch this. It is shit.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_25079\"  width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OBrIx4edEDo?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the view from the bottom where the truck picked us up. Look at the steam coming off the rocks&#8230;.just look at it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/pQkjfc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3950\/15643165975_74bdf7482a.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0017\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After leaving El Salvador and a brief one week stop in Honduras. We checked in to Nicaragua. Our port of entry was a small industrial town of Corinto. We left the boat anchored in an Estuary near a place called &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/palarran.com\/log\/volcano-boarding\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/palarran.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/palarran.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/palarran.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/palarran.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/palarran.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/palarran.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"http:\/\/palarran.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/palarran.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/palarran.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/palarran.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}