Nicaragua Travel Blogs

... were very happy with the result. When the volcano erupted, it threw huge rocks out of its core and these landed in Lago de Nicaragua a few kilometres away. They now make up Las Isletas, a group of 350ish little islands on the lake. Next day we went to ...

A travel blog entry from Ometepe Island by hanscottclaire
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... in a dust bowl of a town, and continue the next morning for yet another snail pace marathon. At the border between Honduras and Nicaragua the locals are playing "spot the gringo." They see us as soon as the bus roll into the station at the border. Dozing ...

A travel blog entry from León by stevefn
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We arrived in Nicaragua two days ago. It´s in the high 90s both in temperature and humidity! The people seem very warm and open, tourism is on the small scale here, just the way we like it. At the border crossing between Honduras and Nica we were stung ...

A travel blog entry from Leon by dospollos
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Julie Said: So, exchanging our surfboards for borders and our colones for cordoba, we crossed the border from Costa Rica to Nicaragua. Although prior reports suggested that it could take up to 6 hours to cross the border, it only took us two hours ...

A travel blog entry from Granada by globedecker
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... will be in Leon awhile. It is a nice town, full of people, not so full of tourists. It is the liberal center of Nicaragua, and so far we have seen on murals: a CIA serpent being beheaded, Uncle Sam being crushed by the outline of Sandino, and graffiti ...

A travel blog entry from Leon by andrewandjacque
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... , but now it also caters for tourists from around the world. Hence it's probably the closest you get to a beach resort town in Nicaragua. 10km north of San Juan del Sur, only reached by boat or a bumpy ride along a muddy track, I once again find myself ...

A travel blog entry from San Juan del Sur and Playa Majagual by stevefn
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According to our Spanish teacher, it is the hottest place in todos de Central America. She says it is due to the Spaniards chopping down all the trees and shipping them to Peru (actually, indigenous slave labor did the actual chopping, the Spaniards just ...

A travel blog entry from Leon by andrewandjacque
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... in a few days, ....not. Corn Islands are two islands (Big Corn and Little Corn) on the Carribean coast of Nicaragua. It's starting to become popular among backpackers, but because it's pretty hard getting there overland (by bus and boat) and because ...

A travel blog entry from Corn Islands by stevefn
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... ocean and chatting away in Creole or heavily accented English. The people look and sound very caribbean, very different to S Nicaragua. The boat ride was pretty calm considering our expectations and about 30 mins later we arrived on Little Corn. ...

A travel blog entry from Little Corn, Corn Islands by emanddave
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So, costs here in Granada: Andrew has discovered that you can buy: 20 oz. water 33 oz. beer 16.5 oz. of 70-proof cane alcohol (aguardiente) 1 bowl of vigoron (fried up pork skins served with steamed yucca and vinagrette coleslaw) 2 thick ...

A travel blog entry from Granada by andrewandjacque
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Well I finally know what I will be doing while Casey is saving the world at EPI. I accepted a volunteer position with the Pacuare Nature Reserve. I will be a research assistant with the sea turtle program. It is located near Tortugero NP, right near where ...

A travel blog entry from Corn Islands by casey_matt
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... almost all the farmland and who are each supporting a different political party. Despite the fact that in America Haiti and Nicaragua are much poorer, the differences between rich and poor are the biggest in Honduras. At the end of the sixties Honduras ...

A travel blog entry from Nicaragua and by jotraveller
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... and head to Isla Ometepe. Isla Ometepe is an island formed by 2 conjoined volcanoes (hence the figure eight shape) in Lago de Nicaragua (also known as Cocibolca). The lake is really really big, and despite what you would guess from looking on a map, it ...

A travel blog entry from Isla Ometepe by andrewandjacque
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This past weekend, my friends from Leon and I went to Granada for the annual "Feria" or street festival. We figured all the tourists that would sign up for hikes would be there and not here so we should be there too! This place is by far the coolest ...

A travel blog entry from Granada by jeffsadventures
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... of Masaya. After Tasha recovered from a bout of Gallo Pinto poisoning we eventually moved on to Isla de Ometepe in Lago Nicaragua. This was definately our favourite place in Nicaragua. The lake is the largest in Central America, and home to some of the ...

A travel blog entry from Ometepe by dospollos
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... , climb the volcano (Concepcion that is), kayak to Monkey island, cycle around the half island, visit the local school... Nicaragua really became a little bit my favorite destination during my travel and I really plan to come back here sooner or later.( ...

A travel blog entry from Ometepe Island by jotraveller
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... , not that any of us were big rum experts, but it was good! So after quite a while in the Leon area, we are anxious to see other parts of Nicaragua with our few remaining weeks of travel and will be heading next to Leon´s historically rival city Granada.

A travel blog entry from Leon by casey_matt
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Julie Said: For me, the highlight of Managua was meeting William, an uncle of a former student of mine. I had been looking forward to this part of the trip since we arrived and I was not disappointed. William, and his daughter, Ilsa, met us at our ...

A travel blog entry from Managua by globedecker
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Isla de Ometepe is a picture perfect volcanic island in Lake Nicaragua, formed by the now extinct Volcán Maderas (1394 meters) and the dormant Volcán Concepción (1610 meters). Carmen had to leave for the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica while Steve and ...

A travel blog entry from Isla de Ometepe by stevefn
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... while Managua most definitely does not...we were happy not to go there. Granada is a beautiful town, on the edge of Lago Nicaragua. There are many spectacular old buildings, and it is fun to just wander around here. William Walker, a nasty man from ...

A travel blog entry from Granada by andrewandjacque
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... took a bus into town to a copy center, copied it and had to return it. Great fun looking back on it all. Now, it´s just a paperwork and waiting game to get my new cards here to Nicaragua and the stolen funds returned ... they had time to use each card once.

A travel blog entry from Leon by jeffsadventures
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... here. The time I spent in Leon has been great but there´s so much more to see in this amazing country. As I write this, I´m in Granada and will use this as a home base for exploring some other parts of Nicaragua until I cross the border into Costa Rica.

A travel blog entry from Granada by jeffsadventures
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... the beach. It was another great day in island paradise. The 11th was a baseball day. Yes baseball, apperently it is very popular in Nicaragua even way out here on the island. On our walk over to the field we chatted with a player and he filled us in on ...

A travel blog entry from Big and Little Corn Island by casey_matt
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Alex: Our plan for the next morning in Managua was to go to DHL to FINALY try to sort out our claim. We set off thinking the 1km walk would be safe in daylight but we had hardly walked 2 blocks when we came across our first and last gringo in the city who ...

A travel blog entry from Isla de Ometepe by alexndean
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... to Nicaragua. Change some money into Cordobas which is about 35 to the pound. Then walk across a Japanese sponsored bridge into Nicaragua with bicycles going past with locals carrying nothing as we trudge with our over-full rucksacks. We arrive at the ...

A travel blog entry from Leon by emanddave
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Very Merry Christmas and A fabulous 2007! We are having an internet ´break´ for the next weekish on a Carribbean island but will obviously return with our Christmas adventures. In the meantime, have a great one! Em and Dave

A travel blog entry from Leon by emanddave
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... looks as though we might escape our weekly encounters. Estelí and León are the only cities that consistently vote pro-Sandista in Nicaragua. Estelí is nice, if a bit boring. There are a lot of language schools here, but not much else. Mostly, we ...

A travel blog entry from Estelí by andrewandjacque
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... seco and patacones. In Costa Rica he discovered jerked fish and casados. And then Little Andrew found himself in Nicaragua. Now, Nicaragua is both a poorer and larger place than either Panama or Costa Rica. But it was here that Little Andrew ...

A travel blog entry from Leon by andrewandjacque
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Alex: Managua was just a one nighter to break up the trip to Isla de Ometepe - thank God! Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in CAm and you could tell. The countries we have visited so far have been fairly poor, lots of shacks in the countryside ...

A travel blog entry from Managua by alexndean
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... . Today was a pretty mellow day all and all. We walked along Granada's neglected Centro Turistico along the shores of Lake Nicaragua and wondered why it wasn't a more happening place, sipped refrescos from the kiosks in the center square while catching up ...

A travel blog entry from Granada by casey_matt
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