Vishnudas (centre, in white) celebrates his last day in San Jose, Costa Rica with people from the hostel he was volunteering at

The Nicaraguan roadblock in former journalist Vishnudas Chapke's circumnavigation trip has finally been cleared. Chapke's almost 50-day ordeal ended on Monday night, when he finally managed to enter Nicaragua by land. Crossing the border into the Central American country was nothing short of a miracle for Chapke, who had been stuck in Costa Rica because his visa for the Nicaragua took forever to come through.