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- Managua
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- Cordoba Oro (NIO)
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Leon Slideshow
Leon
Travel Blogs from Leon, Nicaragua
Dec 7: Purisima and the Griteria
... fast and fireworks were going off). In addition there was dennis, his niece, mel, myself and eventually "the oldest poet in leon" who was probubly beyond description, but i´ll try... this 90 year old man looked like a spanish gentleman of centuries ...
Picless in Leon
... the response that the kid had no recollection of seeing the camera. Damn. So I lost about 4 days of shots of Leon, the local Volcanoes and the historic Churches and revelotunary battle sites within the city. What a bummer. Lost camera, case ...
Injuries and Recoveries
... that we needed to help our recovery along. That first night Al and I met Greg, a guy from New York travelling through Nicaragua for a few weeks. He was watching the Red Sox v Yankees baseball game and offered to teach us the rules and how the ...
tranquilo town / hiking up a storm
... which city should be capital, a small town positioned between the two cities (managua) was established as the new capital. leon is cool. it´s got what you need, is relatively quiet (altho they still have ridiculous, defeaningly loud enormous loudspeakers ...
Cumpleaños feliz a mí... dos veces!
... , so I decided to give surfing a miss as this is not a nudist beach. I thoroughly enjoyed my time in León, and Nicaragua as a whole has been good to me. However time is ticking away and I need to get moving, plus all those mojitos surely ...
Zooming down volcanoes on a tray
Three buses, three taxis and a boat later and I finally arrived in pretty, colonial Leon, home to Central America`s largest cathedral, Ruben Dario`s house and many fallen martyrs. Modern Leon draws hoards of backpackers for a slightly less ...
Hot July days in Leon...
... . Two other Americans joined the party, and we headed back up to Masaya in search of the perfect birthday cake. In Nicaragua, they are pretty serious about celebrations... felicidades cumpleano, boda (wedding), primera comunion, ect... So, there are some ...
More Fairy Tales
... last bedtime story is El Viejo del Monte. This story originated in the Solentiname Archipelago in Lake Colcibolca (Lake Nicaragua). There was a hunter who mercilessly killed any animal that crossed his path. Worse, he didn't eat ...
Surfing Volcano at Cerro Negro
Z Managuy jsem se presunul do kolonialniho, prijemneho mestecka Leon, ktere ma velmi prijemnou a uvolnenou atmosferu. Abych dodal dnu nejaky adrenalin, rozhodl jsem se surfovat na mistnim vulkanu. Vice mene to spociva v tom, ze vylezete na sopku (toho ...
To Leon
... and took a cab to Lazy Bones Hostel which was highly recommended by a couple of travelers. My first impressions of Leon were that there is less stunning renovated colonial architecture than in Granada, but the streets are also less ...
Grimm's got nothing on these guys...
... from there is a mural with the familiar silhouette of Sandino. Sandino opposed Somoza and was against U.S. involvement in Nicaragua. In 1934, Somoza had Sandino assassinated. With his main opposition out of the way, Somoza established ...
day 20: Leon Viejo and other observations
... the summer. Sidetrack: Leon is an interesting place because there are so few tourists. Frankly for being the ´tourist mecca´ of Nicaragua, there weren´t many in Granada... a few busloads at any one time during the time we were there... so you ...
Feliz Navidad
... the ride! This is what I love about Central America: your safety is your business! Another festive event in Nicaragua takes place nightly from November 6 till January 6. This is the dance of Gigantona and Pepe Cabezon. ...
Learning history lessons in Leon
... everyone about it. Roberto explained how FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional/ Sandinista National Liberation Front) activists in Leon, including many students from the University of León, protested, plotted, fought, and how some - who are ...
Poverty, Nicaragua
... in Latin America after Haiti. Besides also having experienced a 10 year civil war, natural disasters such as Hurricane Mitch have struck Nicaragua and have made the situation worse for many of the poor people. Check out the Rural Poverty Portal if you are ...
Happy Halloween!
... baseball (ít´s bigger than soccer here, don´t ask me why). Also, maybe it´s just that we´re in a university town, but Nicaragua seems young. (In fact it is, 72% of the population is under 30.) There´s also no indigenas really here. They make ...
Flor de Caña, and volcanic eruptions
... to where we didnt want to go. But we got a minibus to Leon and we were on our way at last. Leon is a beautiful colonial city in Northern Nicaragua. It has Central America's largest cathedral and many other churches. It was also one of the centers of the ...
Trivia and More Churches...
... I figured I could at least exercise my brain since my body wasn't getting much. Via Via is a hostel here in Leon that also houses a popular bar and restaurant. They have live music every Friday night and on Monday's they host a ...
Land of Volcanoes, Leon
... of a non-profit volunteer organization named "Quetzaltrekkers" who use their profits to support streets kids and children at risk in Leon, Nicaragua. What an amazing hike it was for a good cause as well. The active volcano with its 90 degree crater ...
Expeditie Momotombo!
Hier volgt een kort verslag over onze 2-daagse beklimming van de moeilijkste en 2e hoogste vulkaan van Nicaragua: de Momotombo. We begonnen onze uitstap met een bezoekje aan de supermarkt om 5liter water per persoon in te slaan, dit zouden we later nog ...
Leon, the city that never changes.
... music! We finally got the chance to practice our dancing! We then took a bus from Granada to Managua and from Managua to Leon, which took roughly 3 hours altogether. We arrived in Leon midday and walked about 10 blocks to the city center and then figured ...
Hitchhiking & Mountain Boarding Through Nicaragua
... victory, plus those two beers, meant everything. The suspense is running high this beautiful sunny afternoon in Leon, Nicaragua. Eric is setting the racers in their positions and the race should start momentarily. From the racers' right to ...
Volcano Surfing
... , Betto and I headed down south to cross the border into Nicaragua. It took us a total of 2 days to get down in to Leon in the North of Nicaragua. It was a long and painful journey but it did save us all a few bucks. We went to Leon to do one thing... ...
The Roosterfights
Hola belgas! Vandaag hebben we een cultuurshock gehad. We hebben ons eens goed ondergedompeld in de nicaraguaanse cultuur. De Belgen van ons hotel hebben ons meegenomen naar de wekelijkse traditionele hanengevechten. We waren te gast op de ...
VOLCANO SURFING
... one-year life experiencing bender and I know that Ian would not want to go shopping (even if there were any decent shops in Leon) so we all decided we had to mark the occasion with something special. Lava surfing down an active volcano. Ian ...
Volcano Boarding in Leon, Nicaragua
... 't really get to like Honduras at all, it seemed more American, with less culture and more big chain stores. But Nicaragua is amazing! I'm in Leon at the moment, which is very colonial and was one of the centres of the revolution, which is ...
The Longest Day.
... there was plenty of other things we would have liked to have seen and done. Still, travel is full of Hindsights and Nicaragua, according to all reports, is an amazing place.......isn`t it... No photos were lost of Leon. None were ...
Leon
... so we arranged it for the next day and set off to explore the city....or what was open. Apparently it was revolution day in Nicaragua which seemed to mean that most places closed so the city was deserted. We ended up going to the cinema to see Die ...
Leon- Birthday and Breaking a World Record
... before Devin's birthday, we headed over to a museum that the guide book said was the best in all of Nicaragua. It was incredible. Ranging from French Impressionist to Spanish religious statues to modern Central American artists. We enjoyed ...