We started off in Little Corn Island on the East coast. Little Corn is a tiny tropical island in the Caribbean sea. It's so small in fact that there's no roads or cars just a few footpaths for people to walk or ride a bike around the island. Due to this fact, things are pretty chilled out on Little Corn and it's a really nice place to hang out and share stories with other travellers.
We were here for a week and took advantage of the very reasonable price to do the PADI Open Water diving course at the local dive shop to become qualified divers. We had lots of fun learning to dive, we did a night dive, and saw lots of marine life including a nurse shark, a reef shark, sting rays, an octopus, lion fish, turtles and many types of other fish and coral.
During our shallow water dives practicing our newly learned skills, there were LOADS of small jelly fish swimming around and stinging us. Unfortunately Mai had a bad allergic reaction to the stings and was uncomfortable for more than a week. Like any good, devoted husband, I kindly offered to wee on her (to relieve her pain), however to my surprise she declined my generous offer in favour of rubbing vinegar into her wounds!
Due to the Caribbean influence, the food on Little Corn was really good and also cheap! As our accommodation had no kitchen so we were eating out all the time, but would probably only spend as much in an entire day as we would on a single meal in most of South America.
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