Country Info
- Managua
- Capital
- Cordoba Oro (NIO)
- Currency
- 4,918,393
- Population
- NI
- Country Code
San Carlos
Travel Blogs from San Carlos, Nicaragua
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The night boat to...
This is a top pick! Tonight we leave Isla Ometepe for San Carlos, at the southern end of Lago Nicaragua. When it leaves, when to buy tickets and how long it will take is unclear though, as we asked 4 different people and got answers of boats leaving anywhere between 6 pm and ...
Nicawesome
This is a top pick! Crossing the Nicaraguan border by boat, we arrived in San Carlos and had a great first impression of Nicaragua. San Carlos is a small fishing village that sits at the headwaters of the Rio San Juan which connects the massive Lake of Nicaragua to the ...
Arrived in Nica
... Rica and Nicaragua at Los Chilies is full of animals, clearly an area most tourists don´t go. I arrived in San Carlos, Nicaragua as the skies opened. I passed through immigration, and was pleased to receive 90 days on my entry stamp. This ...
Río San Juan
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Forced to spend a couple of nights here waiting for the boat to Solentiname but accommodation options were limited to pricey poor value for money or cheap & not cheerful. Paying $15 a night for an average room with bucket shower and one cable channel ...
Nicaragua "niu countri"!
... are catching the 12.30 pm public boat bus to San Carlos which is 1 hour away down the river Rio Frio. San Carlos is the entry point for Nicaragua. Legally while we write this entry we are out of Costa Rica as we have our passports stamped with exit ...
Tales from Junio
... either today or some day soon (when I have the chance). We crossed the border along the Rió de San Juan and arrived in San Carlos to take another boat to our first hotel. We were still on the river the first night and it was an awesome place...a very ...
Welcome back to Nicaragua
It's SO much cooler crossing a border by riverboat than by bus. I don't know why, it just is. San Carlos takes a lot of rap in all the different guidebooks, but I like it. There are lots of mosquitos and you have a feeling of being stranded in the ...
For a fist full of dollars
... a tour to Caño Negro! The howler monkeys were especially noisy during the trip... Anyway, we arrived at the port of San Carlos in Nicaragua, and just getting off the panga is customs. The local military quickly sorted out the paperwork for all the ...
Not your average bus ride.
... . And we did. But there was no sleep to be had on this bus. The road which skirts the eastern shore of Lake Nicaragua is unpaved. The driver figured that, what with all the bumping and bouncing, nobody on board was going to get any sleep ...
A Long Journey, 2nd Class On The Boat, Fort
... get in and driving us to the dock for US$1 where we got 2nd class tickets for the 10 hour boat trip across Lake Nicaragua to San Carlos, launching pad to El Castillo down the Rio San Juan. The 1st classer's were only a couple of dollars more and ...
New years eve playing UNO
... with a guy at the bus station decided to catch a different bus and try to transfer to another bus that was heading to San Carlos from a different destination. After 3 hours on the bus ended up reaching an intersection where we found we had just missed ...
River Journeys and the best Camarones!
... in Trafalgar Square) who attacked El Castillo on the river for Spanish gold. The next morning we leave San Carlos and Lake Nicaragua. The launch goes east along the river towards the tiny village of Boca del Sabalos passing small villages and ...
Back from the Rio San Juan
So, after a week or more in the middle of nowhere, we´re back in somehwere you could call a town. We´ve been into the rainforest, on boats in crocodile and shark infested waters and conquered a castle. The last place that had a cash machine ...
Waiting for the bus...
Location: San Carlos at the mouth of the San Juan River, Nicaragua, approx. 1154 local time.So, here I am in a restaurant using their WIFI waiting for my bus back to Granada which leaves at 3pm. I took the boat in from Sabalos which got in at 10am. The ...
Het meer van Nicaragua overgestoken: San Carlos
Vrijdag 5 augustus 2011 Na bijna elf uur op een boot van Altagracia op Isla Ometepe naar San Carlos te hebben gezeten, ga ik bij aankomst in San Carlos eerst op zoek naar een bed. Aangezien San Carlos niet zo heel groot is, en mede omdat ...
A Short Flight and a Long Boat Trip
... most proficient of all of us, having studied it in school. Knowing some French is not terribly helpful . . . . On arriving in San Carlos, we took a taxi into town to the docks. Unfortunately, we just missed the express boat and ended up ...
The slowest ferry I've ever met
In Isla de Ometepe right before I was about to depart the place, I accidentially bumped into Kelly, my old travelling mate, and he decided on the spot to join me on my adventure towards the caribbean. So we travelled to the ferry dock, waited around for ...
I feel dizzy :(
Hola! I am currently in San Carlos. It´s hideous. It´s even more hideous considering we´ve just come from El Castillo which is really, really beautiful. :( SO. We never did go kayaking on Ometepe. It was just too much of a struggle to catch the ...
July 28th, 2007
... decided to use the long weekend to travel. Because I don´t have a phone at my site, I had to trek it alone to San Carlos, Nicaragua. This town is on the southeastern edge of the gigantic Lake Nicaragua. So first I had to take a 3-hour bus ride from ...
A Gain in 60% in Humidity!
The humidity has gone up 60% and I felt it today. Ugh! You wanna take like 10 showers a day. I am staying at this hostel for the first 3 nights while I took the first day to sort myself out. I met up wth my Spanish teachers, took money out and found an ...
First stop in Nicaragua, on route to El Castillo
As soon as our riverboat emerged in the beautiful Lago Nicaragua, we could see the town of San Carlos, and it was not a particularily pretty sight. It is basically a collection of delapitated wood, tin, and concrete shacks that have encroached onto the ...
NicarAgua
... Wildbahn, den wir sehnlichst zu sehen wünschten, nicht begegnet. Im herzigen Fischerdörfchen San Carlos angekommen haben wir den Sonnenuntergang über dem Lago Nicaragua (in dem sogar Bullsharks schwimmen) angeschaut und sind dabei unserem ...
On the Road to Nica: iguanas, fruits and customs
... lively and there is that special atmosphere you find only in border cities. Annemieke rented a boat to go to the first Nicaragua to a place calle San Carlos. It will last about 1 hour. The river is beautiful. We see howler monkeys. We are so close to ...
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