Country Info
- Managua
- Capital
- Cordoba Oro (NIO)
- Currency
- 4,918,393
- Population
- NI
- Country Code
Nicaragua Slideshow
Top Hotels in Nicaragua
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Hotel Barcelo Playa Montelimar All-Inclusive
310 reviews -
Hotel Barcelo Managua
46 reviews -
Hotel Real Inter-Continental Metrocentro Managua
101 reviews -
Crowne Plaza Managua
41 reviews
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Hotel Holiday Inn Select Managua
52 reviews
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Hotel Princess Managua
60 reviews
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Hotel Camino Real Managua
82 reviews
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Best Western Las Mercedes Managua
103 reviews -
Norome Villas Granada
59 reviews
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Legends Hotel Managua
20 reviews
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Hotel Alhambra Granada
48 reviews
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Hotel Plaza Colon Granada
216 reviews -
Mansion Teodolinda Managua
10 reviews
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Hotel El Conquistador Managua
3 reviews
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Parque Maritimo el Coco San Juan del Sur
8 reviews
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Hotel Casa Real Managua
4 reviews
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Hotel Campestre Plaza Azul Managua
2 reviews
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Hotel Los Balcones De Leon
28 reviews
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Royal Chateau Hotel San Juan del Sur
15 reviews
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La Casona de los Estrada Granada
19 reviews
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La Princesa de la Isla Big Corn Island
33 reviews
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Hotel D'Lido Managua
21 reviews
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La Perla Hotel Leon
115 reviews
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Hotel Casa Catarina Masaya
11 reviews
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Casa Iguana Little Corn Island
107 reviews
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Hotel El Almendro Managua
16 reviews
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BW LAS MERCEDES Managua
1 review
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Hotel Suyapa Beach Leon
21 reviews
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Hotel Ivania's Masaya
10 reviews -
Hotel Los Delfines Little Corn Island
20 reviews
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Estrella Hotel Managua
5 reviews
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Hotel Real Leon
19 reviews
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La Mariposa Spanish School and Eco Hotel Masaya
120 reviews
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Hotel Terrasol Granada
164 reviews
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Lobster Inn Little Corn Island
8 reviews
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Europeo Hotel Managua
21 reviews
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Hotel Internacional Managua
76 reviews
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Buena Vista Surf Club San Juan del Sur
172 reviews
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Madera's Inn Masaya
12 reviews
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Casa Vivaldi Granada
15 reviews
Nicaragua
Travel Blogs from Nicaragua
Rainy season is go, go, GO
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Spot the Gringo.
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Leon
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Bus trips, ferry, taxis, and Bambi
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Power Cuts in Granada
This is a top pick! ... : 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 ...
Leon is Hot Hot Hot
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Hang loose in surfers town.
This is a top pick! ... of is, 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 ...
Buccaneers and drug runners.
This is a top pick! ... mainland 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 ...
Thoughts on Food, Drink, and Costs
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The Stresses of Caribbean life
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Nicaragua, Honduras
This is a top pick! ... own 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 ...
Figure-8 Island
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Pipe Bombs, Bull Sharks and Nicatamales
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Back north again, first stop Nica...
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
Weekend get-away
This is a top pick! 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 town ...
Hanging with the locals
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Beautiful City
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Missing tourists.
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Still alive and well....
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Farewell León
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Isla de Ometepe
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Bob Marley and the Buses
This is a top pick! ... spent more time on buses than most Canadians do in their entire lives. Ellen wanted to fly from the city of David, Panama to Managua, Nicaragua. The cost was $273.00. "But we won't see the people, experience the flair." I said. She relented and is now ...
He´s still got that burnin feeling
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The Concepcion Volcano of Ometepe
This is a top pick! From Granada we got an early afternoon chicken bus South to Rivas, from here we caught a boat to Ometepe Island and stayed in the main village of Moyogalpa. The journey again was an eventful one and transport at home will never be the same and will ...
More heat and yet more colonial splendour
This is a top pick! ... ; 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 ...
Wishing you a............
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Managua
This is a top pick! 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 ...
And now, a parable
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Central America comes to an end
This is a top pick! San Juan del Sur; Nicaragua's premier surf town and a cool little drinking village where the locals like to go fishing. This is where I chose to spend the last couple weeks I have here in Central America; relaxing and trying to improve my surfing ...