Country Info
- Managua
- Capital
- Cordoba Oro (NIO)
- Currency
- 4,918,393
- Population
- NI
- Country Code
Travel Blogs from Ocotal, Nicaragua
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Lizard lady
This is a top pick! ... sweeping bends around the mountains are a pleasure to ride. The border into Honduras was only 20 or 30 kilometers away from Ocotal, Nicaragua and Des had spotted a nice looking hotel the Hotel Frontera, so we decided to check in for the night, and ...
Country Overview: Nicaragua
... ;Mogoton 2,438m Adult Literacy Rate: 67.5% Unemployment Rate: 7.4% National Anthem: Salve a ti, Nicaragua National Symbols: Coat of Arms of Nicaragua National Animal: Guardabarranco National Flower: Sacuanjoche Famous ...
Bussin north
... my way north. I arrive in Managua early in the morning and decide to make for a town close to the honduran border Ocotal. I get there with plenty of time to spare and spend an enjoyable evening in this picturesque mountain town where the locals ...
Ocotal
Quite pleasant, in very small parts, but even so same lack of restaurants & litros of beer. Another early bus, out to Las Manos, the border, after a bus station ...
Striking Sandinistas
... stop supporting Chavez and Ortega...but that would mean prejudicing the spicy contracts that spanish telecommunications companies have in Nicaragua, etc. Anyway, after all the above. We have really enjoyed Nicaragua, and most of its people are ...
When we thought bulls were scary
Finally able to upload some videos. This is from our first week here when we thought the bulls were scarier than they actually are. PS: That's the dog that ate the pet squirrel. ...
It's just a well
Just a short video of the well on the property. I don't know why I took it, but it's small so it's able to be uploaded easily. ...
Update and pictures of our casa
We made it to Las Mercedes. It was an adventure getting here. We took two buses from Managua and ended up getting off at a different bus stop then we had directions for. That resulted in a 2 hour "adventure", but we made it. Work ...
Pictures show it all
No time to write -- click on the "View pictures" link above. All is well! ...
Trip to the bank
We went to the bank to exchange dollars for cordobas. How could that be worth writing about? Well, the experience started with the two security guards outside the door. They check your bags (I had to leave my camera outside with them). ...
48 Hours With No Running Water
It's been 48 hours since we had running water. At home, this would be an inconvenience at most. Here, it’s a bit more than that. At home, if there were no running water, you would hardly find yourself thirsty. You could run to the store to buy ...
First Week on the Farm
Hola from Las Mercedes! This is Heather. It's been almost a week now of living and working on the farm and we're are doing really well. It's rustic but not bad at all. We have our own room and bathroom, running water, electricity, a good kitchen with a ...
Chapter one- Jornada
4/10/2005 Here itīs been my first week in Murra and there was no time to soak it all in, it seemed there was always something going on. My first day I spent in the Centro de Salud getting to know the staff and creating a work station for myself ...
northern nicaragua
Ocotal is in the northern mountains of nicaragua. But the mountains are incredibly green. The spanish accent here has some similarities to southern spain (no s and shortened words) and I have to stretch my ears to understand. I love the brown naked ...
Decisions, decisions, decisions
... on and so forth until it reaches your friend. I havenīt tried that one out yet but I have used the ambulance that goes into Ocotal to communicate with my buddy there. One of the nurses ran into me this morning and had two letters from home for me (I ...
Waterfall in Murra, work as usual, IndependenceDay
... garden department at ADRA so I asked them to come out and help me. Marlon and Luis Castillo drove all the way out from Ocotal to help these women only to hear them moan and complain that they didnĄĶt understand why they should have to pay when in the ...
Donīt drink the water!
6/12 Well every time I think Iīve found a pattern to my work schedule I meet someone new that influences my work or something comes up, ie. torrential rains, the boss doesnīt show up, someone from another organization needs my help...etc. Now Iīm ...
Wish list included, hehe
... can send me goodies, here goes: Jelly Bellyīs, yogurt/peanut butter covered preztles, any of the packaged trail mix or granola from Trader Joes, reeces pieces, sour patch kids Carrie Martin A.P. 25 Ocotol, Nueva Segovia Nicaragua Central ...
Nicaragua Begins!
... that every last scrap of meat from our chicken bones is being voraciously polished off by an old man and young boy. Ocotal is a pleasant, unremarkable town, with a central plaza and a well-preserved colonial church. We meet Juan-Jose a ...
Rest Before the Border
We just posted up in the little quiet town of Ocotal resting before crossing the border. We'd been high-tailing it through most of the country at a faster pace than we'd been used to. It was finally starting to take a toll on us. Yes, ...
Guess what, there are casinos in Nicaragua
... I got up early and found a new route. This involved taking a bus to Las Manos, a border town, walking across the border into Nicaragua and then getting a local bus from there. We had a nice free breakfast as the hotel the took a taxi to the bus station. ...
Who ever said these people were lazy?
... woke up early enough to squeeze in breakfast and an introductory presentation from the staff of Global Partnerships here in Nicaragua. A very impressive group, with lots of financial experience and the integrity to match. We then jumped on our rented ...
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