Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua Travel Blogs

Missing tourists.
Nov 25, 2004 (7 photos)

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 ...

Isla de Ometepe
Oct 9, 2006 (12 photos)

... not admitting to not knowing where something is and just guessing! Next it was a chicken bus to Rivas to get the ferry to Isla Ometepe. Chicken buses vary from quite good fun to a bit intimidating, Managua was the latter. As always when you get to the ...

Dave's Sick Again!
Jul 29, 2006 (5 photos)

... in and filling out the forms (tab system) I ordered some BBQ chicken for lunch and went off for a walk to the lake. Lago de Nicaragua isn't the cleanest water I've ever seen, it's brown, but here in Merida it was far clearer. Clearer than the river I swam ...

Isla de Ometepe - The Limit of Physical Endurance
Mar 13, 2004 (3 photos)

... what a stunning centrepiece Volcan Concepcion, and to a lesser extent the adjoining Volcan Maderas (which together make up the Isla de Ometepe), make on this huge body of water. Dan and I, together with a number of other backpackers and several locals, ...

Heading for the border...
Nov 4, 2004 (7 photos)

... people selling crap you don't want and other scams, I am going the long way. Currently, I'm on Isla de Ometepe, a large island in the middle of Lake Nicaragua formed by two volcanoes, one still active. From here, I will use a 12 hour overnight ferry to ...

Road Trip From Hell!
Jul 30, 2006 (1 photos)

... , and a couple of visits to see how Dave was doing I went to bed early. Dave should be discharged tomorrow so we'll be leaving Ometepe on the earliest ferry possible. Not the sort of stay I had in mind for this island and I'd love to go back one day and do ...

Volcano Islands
Jul 27, 2006 (4 photos)

... choose to stay here for a while to learn some essential Spanish if I returned. We were going to Isla de Ometepe today, a volcanic island in the Lago de Nicaragua, but the question was how and when. We could either leave early on a bus to Rivas and ...

Island of Volcano´s
Mar 27, 2007

We arrived at Isla Ometepe, an island in the biggest lake of Central America (Lago Nicaragua) formed by two volcano´s next to each other. The view from the boat as we approached the island was great, tomorrow we ll go and explore it!

Lago de Nicaragua
Dec 21, 2001 (1 photos)

... quite an effort considering most of our clothes in our backpacks were dirty. Today we took the ferry from Grenada to Isla de Ometepe, the beautiful double volcanic island in the middle of Lago de Nicaragua. This was a twice-a-week ferry that crossed ...

Perfectamente!
Nov 4, 2009

... an hour and a half away. Here, we took a quick taxi to San Jorge, where we caught the hour long ferry to the Isla de Ometepe. (All the legs of our trip were about $1.) Ometepe is an island formed by two giant and beautiful volcanoes rising out of Lake ...

The funniest cycle ride home....
Nov 23, 2009

... seat and stood infront of us all, just as we wanted to enjoy the view of the volcanoes... and we finally arrived. Isla de Ometepe is formed by two volcanoes in the middle of lago de nicaragua, and they are pretty spectacular. We were bombarded by taxi ...

Let´s Get EXTREME!
Nov 6, 2009 (11 photos)

... me. I had no idea what I was going to do. Um, I´m on the side of a volcano in the middle of an island in Nicaragua with a bent finger. What?!! Realizing this, I started really crying and Teddy just kept telling me, ¨You´re a hero, Sue.¨ Manny didn´t really ...

Isla de Ometepe pictures
Oct 26, 2009 (11 photos)

Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua
Jun 3, 2006

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Isla de Ometepe
Jun 16, 2006 (1 photos)

Time to get slightly off the beaten track with a visit to the Isla de Ometepe in the middle of the Lago de Nicaragua. The island is formed from two volcanoes and is home to several small Nicaraguan towns. We stayed in a small town just north of Volcan ...

Volcano Island - Isla de Ometepe
Jul 1, 2007 (3 photos)

Our final stop in Nicaragua was to be Isla de Ometepe, an island formed from the volcanic rocks and sand of two volcanoes. We decided to stay south of one of the Volcanoes, La Conception, which is still active. I actually didn't realize until after our ...

Volcanoes Floating a Lake
Dec 29, 2007 (10 photos)

After another short 4 hour trip, we arrived at the edge of  Lago de Nicaragua, also known by Colcibolca or 'the sweet sea', the largest lake in Central America. It is 177 km long and 58 km wide and has an average depth of  70 metres. The lake is ...

More volcanos
Jan 14, 2007 (21 photos)

Our first stop in Nicaragua was the little island of Ometepe.  A very magical little island in the middle of Laga de Nicaragua which was formed a couple of hundred years ago from two volcanoes, one still slightly active, and ...

Isla de Ometepe
Mar 2, 2007

Isla de Ometepe. Volcanoe-climb attempt and failure. Nice beaches/beautiful walks through the rural roads. Knocking down mangos right off the tree...

sacred isle of Ometepe -- one volcano on each end
Mar 8, 2009 (30 photos)

oh, the adventures here too! this island had an volcano at each end -- and one was active!

climbing the Concepción Volcano
Jan 30, 2009 (25 photos)

... : naar onder scrollen A true giant among the Nicaraguan volcanoes, the Concepción (1610m) dominates the western side of Ometepe Island. Climbing the Concepción is a great challenge, but definitely worth the effort. Yesterday evening we made an appointment ...

Kayaking to Monkey Island
May 25, 2009 (19 photos)

... days rather than thinking about the conclusión of my travels... but it isn`t easy to do!  Staying here on Isla de Ometepe is certainly a big help!!! Isla de Ometepe is a wonderful island that was formed by two volcanoes rising from Lake Nicaragua.& ...

Hanging out in Monkey Island
May 25, 2009 (9 photos)

... days rather than thinking about the conclusión of my travels... but it isn`t easy to do!  Staying here on Isla de Ometepe is certainly a big help!!! Isla de Ometepe is a wonderful island that was formed by two volcanoes rising from Lake Nicaragua.& ...

Finally leaving Leon, on to Granada
Apr 19, 2006 (4 photos)

... I lost nearly all of those photos in a later internet cafe disaster.... ) Next we headed south to the famous Isla de Ometepe, in the huge lake Nicaragua, the 10th largest lake in the world. Each half of the island has its own volcanic peak with a low ...

Kiteboarding Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua
Nov 21, 2007 (25 photos)

... spots I decided after a not so promising forecast to make the 4 hour boat trip from Granada to Isla de Ometepe in the middle of Lake Nicaragua. My friend Itay went with me as well. After spending the night in Altegracia we switched location to the nice ...

Loving Isla de Ometepe
Jun 10, 2008

Moving on from San Juan del Sur, we headed for Isla de Ometepe on Lago Nicaragua, first travelling to Rivas on a local bus (an old American yellow school bus), and then hopping into a taxi to take us to the ferry terminal at San Jorge. The journey was ...

Nicaragua - Isla De Ometepe
Mar 7, 2008 (14 photos)

... a ferry (or "lancha", more like a privately owned large fisherman´s boat) across to the geographically unique looking island of Isla De Ometepe. As our ferry approached the island, it began to look like a scene out of the Lord of the Rings trilogy ...

Isla De Ometepe
Jan 14, 2008 (7 photos)

ISla De Ometepe

Santo Domingo Relaxation
Aug 16, 2009 (43 photos)

After driving from Leon with our new friend, Taylor, we all (including Wesley) jumped on the Che Guevara ferry to the Isla de Ometepe.  It's an Island formed by two Volcanos in the middle of a large lake in Nicaragua.  This lake is soooo large it took us ...

Nicaragua
Nov 9, 2007

... absolutely nothing, I enjoyed this break. After San Juan del sur I headed to Rivas where I took a ferry to the Isla de Ometepe on the Lago de Nicaragua. This is the only lake in the world to have Reef Sharks in it. It is also the largest lake in the ...