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Leon Slideshow
Leon
Travel Blogs from Leon, Nicaragua
Leon Nicaragua: Volcanoes, Churches & Murals
... I will certainly associate Central America with volcanoes! They are everywhere! Our next scheduled stop was the capital of Nicaragua - Managua - but when we got out to see the park with the revolutionary monuments and statues, we were blocked out ...
León
Hi We are in León, Nicaragua's other famous colonial city. Support for the Sandinistas here has always been high - it is a city of poets and revolutionaries. We are staying in Via Via, a very nice hostel with live music, hammocks, cheap beer ...
Still hot and still sweaty
Hola Guapos und Guapos! We woke up on the earlier side and had some breakfast before setting out to explore the city. The morning jaunt was important as it gets pretty fiery by noon. Which explains our afternoon presence in the ventalated internet ...
Leon Old and New
... there we headed towards Leon City but not without a stop for a local specialty. Quesillos are a popular snack in Nicaragua and there are quesillo stands/restaurants throughout the country. A quesillo consists of a corn tortilla stuffed with a ...
Riding giants - this time a volcano
Surf´s up again. However this time no waves! Conveniently placed near Leon is a medium sized volcano that having erupted a few years ago has one side covered in a sort of sandy scree. Not sure which crazy fool first decided to hike and slide down this ...
Missing The Boat
An excellent breakfast this morning of roti and chai (30 cents each) at Deepak's. Much better than the "Western" style bread, egg, jam and butter which reminded of my military training). Trying to book a ferry out, I first went to Wong's Shipping, ...
To Roosevelt
I wanted to write something about US inteventions in Nicaragua and Central America, but realized a list of such interventions would not only be ridiculously long but also boring and easily found elsewhere. So instead I am posted a great poets´ ...
Leon - And Surfing a Volcano!
... I was picking them out of my butt for the rest of the day), but happy that you survived! And it doesn't seem real when you look back up to see where you've come from. It was good fun and I'd recommend it to anyone in Leon. From here it's on to ...
Board of volcanoes
León, Nicaragua's premier university city and a city of fine crumbling colonial churches, sweaty backpackers, Spanish schools, volcano surfing, numerous hiking opportunities and... hold on, volcano surfing? Yes, volcano surfing. As with many of the fine ...
not that much to write but...
... today. we left granada at around 11am after a nice breakfast containing ice cafe mocca with soy milk and some panini bread and headed for leon. to be 100% correct we first took a bus to managua and then to leon but managua is not worth to be mentioned. ...
Zurueck in Leon - nochmal Wandern und Abschied
Das Sitzordnungssystem hier in Nicaragua ist manchmal etwas kompliziert. Man weiss nicht immer, was in den Koepfen der Busangestellten vor sich geht. Irgendwie passen dann irgendwann doch alle rein und diesesmal ermoeglichte uns das den direkten Kontakt ...
Volcano Boarding, Take Two
... facts about the volcano (like how only weeks ago there was an earthquake that registered 4.1 on the Richter scale) and Nicaragua's energy crisis (Cerro Negro, the volcano we climbed, contains enough steam to power 1/3 of the country..but thanks to ...
3 countries in one day!
... crazy as it sounds, we were in El Salvador this morning, traveled across the southern tip of Honduras this afternoon, and arrived here in Leon, Nicaragua not too long ago! At the first border, we paid way too much for a tuk-tuk ride, and at ...
Leon Viejo
... 15.09. rum statt. (Besonders pompoes in Mexiko, das wird hier ueberall im Fernsehen uebertragen). Hier in Nicaragua bedeutet es, dass in allen Staedten Paraden stattfinden bei denen eine nicht zu vernachlaessigende Zahl an Feuerwerkskoerpern abgeschossen ...
NICARAGUA - Leon, Granada, Isla de Ometepe
Photos Nicaragua - Leon Volcano Boarding http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=182518&id=625675862&l=54f757d9f7 May 26th -Nicaragua! Well we entered Nicaragua and didnt know what to expect. It is now regarded as one of the safest Central ...
End of One Month
... am here the more I like it. There is only so much you can say about the beach, the weather, the peacefulness of being in both Leon and Las Peñitas. What is different now is that I have made so many new friends. And what is so special is that they are ...
Volcano Boarding!
... through the herd of taxi drivers we managed to walk through the ghetto looking streets to Bigfoot Hostel. We have so far found Nicaragua to be very safe and easy, the people all seem very friendly. Bigfoot, which arranges the volcano boarding was fully ...
A Lesson In History
... walk. Any place in Central America at night can make you feel a little uneasy, and in the dark Leon seemed very run down and poor. Nicaragua is the poorest country out the Central American group so the warnings of muggings were at the forefront of our ...
Finally Nica!
Ahhh.....finally Nicaragua! We crossed the Honduras/Nicaragua border around 8 p.m. on Sunday night and drove until almost 10 until we hit Leon, an old colonial town that is known for its universities, architecture, and museums. The amazing ...
Volcano Climbing the Nica Way
Aaron and I arrived into Leon to find the real Nicaragua. All the lovely, cool weather in Miraflor and Esteli was just a fluke. Nicaragua is, in fact, amazingly hot and humid. After walking from the bus terminal into town, we put down ...
Volanoes climbed: 2
Jam'packed last few days. Went out for some drinks on Saturday night, there was a live band on. After, I went to a disco in town. Both were places popular with locals and foreigners. So I wasn´t the only "chele". Chele, which is a bastardization of the ...
La Leona in León
... for all¨, the United States continued to support them (finanacially, militarily and administratively) as a non-communist stronghold in Nicaragua. President Franklin D. Roosevelt supposedly remarked in 1939 that "Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's ...
Birthday in Leon
So we arrived in Leon, Nicaragua on my birthday, tired from the looonggg bus ride, but we still pulled ourselves together to celebrate. We started off at our hostel (Via Via...great hostel) with a bottle of Flor de Caña (awesome Nicaraguan rum) and ...
One more night in León
... volcanoes, but then that sure beats sitting in an office or whatever else it is that I would be doing if I wasn't in Nicaragua! Then we stocked up on supplies in the supermarket, returned to our hostel and cooked a meal for six for three people amd ...
Nearly blown up by fireworks
So, the fiesta was interesting. There were lots of people gathered in the square by 6pm, already dusk, and suddenly a really loud air-raid siren siren sounds, the church bells start ringing and fireworks start. They arent the normal colourful fireworks, ...
Black runs and a history lesson
... 's Assumption, the most prominent building in Leon. It is situated on the main plaza and is the burial place of Nicaragua's famous poet Ruben Dario. We enjoyed some wonderful views of the city and the surrounding volcanos from here. There are 5 ...
Mexico City to Nicaragua
... be sipping pale ale and mango beer in the pool listening to the chatter of parrots. Picking up pace, we crossed the border to Nicaragua yesterday and we are planning another week in School at a hideaway in a national park where we can hone up our language ...
Sandboarding and Hiking Volcanoes
... full day but SO worth it when we finally got to the top and saw the views! A 360degree view of the beautiful landscape of Nicaragua, the Pacific Ocean and Lake Managau a huge lake with an even bigger volcano on its edge billowing smoke out of its top. We ...