Help locals and travel smart!

Welcome to Elena’s Restaurante

Elena - Love & Food in San Pedro La Laguna
Elena – Love & Food in San Pedro La Laguna

On a volunteer initiative, my roomies Romina & Johana repainted, reorganized and helped-out with the menu of Elena’s restaurant in San Pedro La Laguna. We also rent rooms from Elena & her family. The restaurant is looking fresh & nice now and we are organizing a body paint party this afternoon to celebrate the work done and hopefully buy an oven with the benefits 🙂

Travel-Smart means immersion travels: Live like locals, let a positive impact behind you and have interest, respect and love towards a new land and it’s people. Not only take, but also give; to the earth, to the community,to the locals, whatever way you feel as doing so, creating connections between local & international populations, leading to projects, schools, friendships, families 🙂

If you come to San Pedro La Laguna, come down to Elena’s restaurant, located 2 minutes away from the Panajachel dock!

Our volunteers team of painters
Our volunteers team of painters
My new neighbours: Chaïto y Shentya
My new neighbours: Chaïto y Shentya (click to enlarge)

 

 

San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua (live video)

First day in San Juan del Sur

San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua

San Juan del Sur (locate it on Google Maps) is a wonderful city on the Pacific ocean that never sleeps. It is very touristic with lots of hotels and apartments for rent. It has also a typical life far from the beach.

I just arrived today and I already found bars, fiestas, excellent food, good prices, a lot of tourists from everywhere, surfers, prostitutes and a lot of marijuana and cocaine. I was speaking with a drug dealer and he confirmed to me that tourists take a lot of drugs here and especially cocaine. He also confirmed to me that the police doesn’t annoy them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0l0fqPsIEs