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Ometepe Island Slideshow
Ometepe Island
Travel Blogs from Ometepe Island, Nicaragua
Rainy season is go, go, GO
This is a top pick! ... route, zipping from one retreat to another just for a different view of the lake and the two volcanoes that make up the island. You should check out Ometepe on google earth, or at least an atlas, if you can. Its crazy. Its made up of two volcanoes that ...
Back north again, first stop Nica...
This is a top pick! ... I visit the waterfall, 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 ...
The two volcanoes island
We stayed at a beautiful place in the middle of nature, in a little hut with outdoor bathroom (not to recommend for people who are scared of insects, spiders, frogs etc.) they cooked some nice dinner for everone and the stars at night were as bright as I ...
victoria
today i rode a dirt bike around the volcanoes of ometepe. It was beautiful, just like the rest of nicaragua. el salvador was cute and friendly honduras was an exciting little cowboy town. well someones waiting for me, so i probably should have a picked ...
Ometepe - day six
... this fabulous off the grid lodge. I think that Taya may have seen one of her most memorable sunsets tonight looking out over Lake Nicaragua and the volcano. The stars will put on a beautiful show for us tonight. I hope that she sees her first shooting ...
Gilligan's Island... Nica style!
... only had a short ride from the border to the little port town of San Jorge where we were catching the ferry to Ometepe in the middle of Lake Nicaragua (just like the old man from Niely suggested!) The ferry was tiny, but fast, so we were on the island in ...
Charco Verde Reserve at Isla de Ometepe
Brzo rano jsem vyrazil na pohadkovy ostrov Ometepe, na nemz se nachazeji dva krasne vulkany obklopene destnymi pralesy. Na ostrov jezdi dva typy lodi, pricemz ty mensi rybarske barky dokazou cloveka poradnbe rozhoupat. ;) Na ostrove jsem se sel podivat do ...
Ometepe
... bus station in San Jose, and after talking to them for a while at the Nicaraguan border, found out that they, too, were headed to Ometepe. When we got off the boat we hurried onto the last bus bound for Balgue (really not so close to la paloma), but i ...
Ometepe Nicaragua
Hi All, After a long day travelling from San Jose we arrived on the island of Ometepe. This is and island in the middle of Lake Nicaragua, comprises of two volcano peaks that are so close they join together to form the island. One peak "Concepcion" ...
Isla de Ometepe
Heading out from Granada I made my way to the isla de Ometepe. Situated in Lago de Nicaragua(central Americas largest lake), Ometepe is a set of two volcanic islands that look like something out of a movie. While there I met a Belgian by the name of ...
Isla de Ometepe
From Granada take the ferry across the vast lake of Nicaragua to Ometepe, a Lord-of-the-rings-esque island formed by two dramatic volcanoes. The island is quite a sleepy place, with everything pretty much shutting down by nightfall, but this is more than ...
Isle de Ometepe
After two citys I head for a massive stunning lake with two live volcanoes each side for relaxing. I think the whole population of the island is only 2000, I head for a less touristy spot of Merida. It was amazing, the lake a few feet away with a peir and ...
Volcanic Islands - A whole different world
Ometepe Island is formed by 2 Volcanoes (Conception and Maderas) that rise from Lake Nicaragua. Conception is Active and considered one of the most perfectly formed volcanoes in Central America (1610m). The most recent eruption was in 2010. ...
Twin volcano-oed slothness
Approaching Ometepe on the ferry from San Jorge, I almost felt like an interepid 19th century explorer person. Apart from the dozens of dreadlocked guitar playing tourists on the boat too that is, but the island is so hippified and laid back that it's ...
Day Seven - Ometepe
... the dry season. They hope to teach the locals the same so that their dirty water does not just run down the sides of the island and into the lake, polluting everything along the way. A lot of our tour was through the farm. It is mostly fruit trees... ...
Vacaciones - Ometepe
... on! Logan and I, while waiting for my cards to get here, decided to take a week long vacation to see Ometepe and Granada, two places in Nicaragua we had been interested in seeing before heading out of the country. I'm going to break this up into ...
Ometepe Island Volcano
... I would have happily watched them all day but a little boy on horse back came and herded them up and sent them up the hill. Ometepe is still ver un spoilt and rustic, it has a sence of mystery about it with the feeling of total isolation from the real ...
Volcanic Monkey Island
Ometepe is a serene and tranquil place - an island formed by twin volcano eruptions in the middle of an enormous lake. It's still not an ocean though. Sitting on the lake beach and climbing the volcano (four hours each way) and relaxing in the hammocks ...
Big walk and sandbags.
Everyone LOVES Ometepe Island. It has a relaxed vibe, lovely beaches and normally fills up a week of peoples Nicaragua experience. This one canīt fail to increase our enjoyment of this country. Can it! Unfortunately for us and maybe Nicaragua, in ...
Ometepe: volcanic island paradise
... metre high (active) Concepcion and 1394 metre high (dormant) Maderas. The two volcanoes rise out of lake Nicaragua, forming a 276km2 egg-timer shaped island - the biggest volcanic island inside a fresh water lake in the world. We took an hour-long ferry ...
Ometepe and bedbugs
... and exploring until tomorrow and just enjoy another tropical storm and the view from our room to Lago de Nicaragua. On Saturday we toured the island a bit and decided to stay in Moyogalpa at the American Hotel, across the island from Playa Santo ...
Welcome To The Jungle
A nice crossing from the mainland to the island of Ometepe today aboard what they call a chicken boat, like the bus, quite ropey. I took one of my knockout sea sickness pills but the crossing was fine and the only thing that happened was that I kept ...
Climbing Concepcion Volcano at Isla de Ometepe
Dneska jsem si rano privstal a vyrazil na vyslap na vulkan Concepcion, ktery meri 1610 metru. Prvni cast vyslapu prochazi suchym a destnym tropickym pralesem. Mohli jsme tak videt vrestany a pak 'white-face monkeys', coz je druh opice, ktery bohuzel ...
Looking for a Little Bit of Paradise
On New Year's Day I spent all day trying to get to Ometepe Island, a crazy island formed by two volcanoes that rose out of the waters of the Lago de Nicaragua. The buses and ferries were barely running because of the holiday, but I eventually made it ...
Finca Magdalena
... nbsp; Anyway, they came to teach the local kids how to play and actually built three instruments to leave behind on the island. The instruments have a beautiful sound and the kids were really talented. They put on a short concert for everyone ...
Ometepe Island with the fab 5 and the monkeys
... together, most of them are not married. In fact, so far we have not met another married couple! Ometepe Island was a peaceful change from mainland Nicaragua. The place we stayed, Charco Verde, consisted of a restaurant and housing and thatīs it! It is ...