Lago de Apoyo, Nicaragua Travel Blogs

Day 25 - Choluteca Honduras to Nandaime, Nicaragua
Oct 21, 2007 (5 photos)

... at customs.  The feeling has been very good and the people genuinely want to help.  Again, our helper at the Nicaragua border was prepared with our paper work before we arrived which made things go as smooth as possible.  The main roads are ...

Gregory.......Porcupig!
Dec 11, 2008 (26 photos)

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Excursions to Masaya, Catarina and Laguna de Apoyo
Jan 27, 2009 (29 photos)

... en donde hay cientos de nidos de murciélagos. Los caminos varían en distancia entre 1.4 y 5.9 kilómetros. La Laguna de Apoyo es una de las más antiguas de Nicaragua. Esta se formó cientos de miles de años atrás, luego de la erupción de un volcán cuyo cono abierto ...

Swimming in Spanish
Oct 26, 2007 (9 photos)

... Andy and I decided that we were up for another week of Spanish school, so we took a shuttle to the Proyecto Ecologico at Laguna de Apoyo. It is quite an amazing place as the laguna is actually the crater of a volcano and measures up to 200 metres deep in ...

Swimmin´ in the Volcano
Jun 10, 2008 (11 photos)

... life" list: swim in a volcano lake. Done that, been there...and it was a nice and relaxing day! The Laguna de Apoyo is a few kilometres away from Granada going towards Managua. There are plenty of organised trips for gringos leaving from the hostels ...

Relaxing in a Crater Lake
Apr 11, 2007 (7 photos)

Laguna de Apoyo is a beautiful crater lake just outside of Granada.  The lake is clean and blue, measuring 48 square kilometers and 200 meters at the deepest point.  The water is refreshingly cool to swim in.  Most of the lake is ...

Volcanic Lake
Mar 26, 2008 (7 photos)

The lake in a crater of an inactive volcano nearby Granada was a great place to kayak and goof around in the inner-tubes by day and relax and read by night. As with most places that I have visited I met a smorgasbord of interesting people from various ...

Into a volcano crater lake & an eco-lodge
Feb 24, 2009 (14 photos)

This volcano crater lake had the cleanest water in Nicaragua. To swim in it was healing -- so silky, clean, fresh, soulful, ancient. The eco-lodge was a real trip -- mosquito nets and lizards everywhere.

Popoyo, Popoyo
Mar 19, 2007 (12 photos)

... It pulls over, and it´s full of christian surfer boys, who were happy to give us a lift. Popoyo is a major surf break in Nicaragua, that no one really seems to know about, so they thought it was very strange to see two girls with no surf boards arriving at ...

Spanish School And Chickens Ate My Vomit
Nov 18, 2007 (15 photos)

We arrived at Laguna De Apoyo five days ago where we met our Spanish teachers for what was to become a very intensive and grueling week of classes and activities arranged by the school. The only way to study with no distractions and to be able to totally ...

Laguna de Apoyo
Dec 2, 2008

The lake is deep, but warm because of the volcano. The weather was perfect. The Oasis has a sister hostel there, The Craters Edge - and the Bearded Monkey has a sister hostel there, The Monkey Hut.

Moved to Laguna De Apoyo
Dec 17, 2008 (2 photos)

We arrived at Laguna De Apoyo at 11.30ish, its really quiet and relaxing here, we had a swin in the crater lake and it has the warmest water we have ever experienced, they have a platform that you can swim to and lay out in the sun. During the day the ...

On our own touring everything we wanted
Jul 12, 2007 (28 photos)

... The region is named for the color of their churches.  They are relatively isolated between the Pacific Ocean, Volcan Masaya, Laguna de Apoyo and Volcan Mombacho, are very scenic and can easily be done within a day.  We hit a traffic jam not ...

Laguna Apoyo
Mar 31, 2006

Laguna Apoyo

¡Vivan Las Gringanistas!
Jul 16, 2007 (11 photos)

... I had finally been able to absorb and apply what I´d learned in San Cristobal-- so I was ready to do a little more. Laguna de Apoyo is a fresh water lake in a dormant volcano`s crater. The land around it is a natural reserve and filled with tons of birds ...

Life J-tepe style
Dec 3, 2009

This week is the celebration of Maria's Conception of Jesus. The actual holiday itself does not take place until the 7th of December, however, people here find any reason to party. After a long day of working in the hospitals, I get to come home and ...

Sand, Surf, Sunburn
Sep 13, 2009 (2 photos)

So... I have learn't 4 very important things so far. #1. No bus is ever too full. For anyone who has never seen a standard school bus with 150 people on it, let me tell you, its like seeing fat bastard sweating in a bikini.. busting at the seams ...

cam
Nov 5, 2009 (1 photos)

Nice grounds, views & hammocked deck. Lovely to be staying near the water at the bottom of the crater & it being clean & clear enough to swim in.  Reasonable visibility too & could see plenty of small fish. Tried to arrange a ...

Independence
Sep 15, 2009 (2 photos)

Sept 15th is the Central American Independence Day. In 1821, Honduras, Guatamala, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua all declared the seperation from their ties to Spain and developed their individual governments( at first they wanted to ...

Lago De Apoyo - El Mono Loco y Feliz Nueva Anos
Dec 31, 2008

Took a day trip out to The Monkey Hut on lago de apoyo also owned by the bearded monkey crowd. soooo beautiful. I really loved this place but I didn't steal me away yet.

Volcano diving
Apr 10, 2008 (11 photos)

Laguna de Apoyo is a crater lake around 180m deep, formed about 23,000 years ago in a rather large eruption. It turns out that the area has recently been turned into a national park area and that we are staying at a Biology research station that has ...

Ein kleines Fleckchen Paradies..
Feb 10, 2009 (17 photos)

Was tut sich da auf - eine halbe Busstunde von Granada weg? Ein Traum! Eine Riesencaldera (also ein ehemaliger, eingestuerzter Vulkankegel), ringsum Wald und ein See mit kristallklarem Wasser. Unser Hostel kostete zwar stolze 12$ Mini-Mehrbett-Zimmer, ...