Country Info
- Managua
- Capital
- Cordoba Oro (NIO)
- Currency
- 4,918,393
- Population
- NI
- Country Code
Travel Blogs from Popoyo, Nicaragua
Sort by Newest Best first
Nica Trippn' - Popoyo
... a plan, just the names of the places we wanted to visit. When we arrived in San Juan we bumped into a couple heading up to Popoyo (Nicaragua's most famous surf spot). We decided to share a taxi ride with them and start our trip with some surf. After ...
Thank God Its Not High Tide
... ; high-diving in Lake Atitlan, scuba diving in Honduras, surfing in El Salvador, and hiking volcanoes, hitchhiking, and dirtbiking in Nicaragua. Times I will never forget. The next morning I woke up at 6 am to begin my journey south into Tamarindo, Costa ...
Sweating and Surfing
... hideously lost trying out some back routes along the way) and stayed only 1 night in the biggest tourist seaside town in Nicaragua, although by our standards the town was quaint and not over-developed, but nothing to write home about either... nadya: ...
I promise this is the last beach entry for a while
... the local economy. Condos are a blight on a beautiful coastline. Condos are another way of bringing rich Americans to Nicaragua, without these people ever seeing Nicaragua as it really is, thus reinforcing the existing prejudices that most US citizens ...
Popoyo, Popoyo
... of her trip, so decided after much contemplating that yes, itīs a good idea to see other parts of Nicaragua, so headed north up to Popoyo, last Wednesday. We went for french toast and banana pancakes at our favorite breakfast place that the Colorado boys ...
Popoyo surf
... . In March-May they are bigger, accompanied by howling offshore winds 20-30 knots on average (thanks to the flat expanse of lake nicaragua, and the seasons) August onwards the waves stay just as big, but the winds drop a bit, so you have strong barrels ...
Apoyo, Granada and a much needed week of surfing
... the whole week! We got really good waves most of the week. We were only a ten minute walk to a really good break called Popoyo mainly with left-handers , and a few good right’s that came through every now and then. Santana’s was a ...
Spanish and Surf in Nicaragua
... was founded in 2005 in the idyllic seaside fishing village of playa gigante on the SW of the pacific coast of Nicaragua. We provide one on one small class (2-3 students) instructions for Spanish language students of all levels. Our standards offering is ...
Surfing and that is where our trip ends
... shopping on the way and we stopped for everything else he wanted to do on the way. We didn’t know too much about Popoyo and we didn’t know that there is no public transportation that takes you to the beach. We asked around and where told that ...
Sort by Newest Best first