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- Managua
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- Cordoba Oro (NIO)
- Currency
- 4,918,393
- Population
- NI
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Granada Slideshow
Granada
Travel Blogs from Granada, Nicaragua
where pirates used to attack
My bum is in pain. But don´t worry-it´s probably not what you think, so get your minds out of the gutter! As I sit in this grungy, smallish clinic, my fears are confirmed. I have a temperature and a nasty case of strep throat. ...
Guatemala to Nicaragua
Hello All! All is well! We've travelled further south now to reach Nicaragua. We're staying at the colonial town of Grenada which is situated next to Lake Nicaragua. Since we reach here we've had a fantastic week, the highlight being the bay island ...
Granada - oh mi corazon
Wenn Leon alles ist, was das Studiherz begehrt, so ist Granada alles, was das Photographier- und Touriherz begehrt: Wunderschöne Kolonialarchitektur, Kutschenstadtrundfahrten, und Flaniermeilen. Es hat den Anschein, als hätte man eine Stadt genommen, ...
Relaxing, study and visited by a monkey
I woke up around 8:00 because of the heat and had some breakfast.. After breakfast I tried to sleep a bit more, but that didn't work..But I stayed in my room under the fan.. Till approx 12:00 when I called Ingrid..I stayed on the phone with Ingrid for ...
FINALLY FOOTBALL by FYNN
... and somone mended my shoes.Then we went on a horse carriage to another market.After that we went to the kids school in Granada.Daddy toght the kids stuff while I was doing something else.Then me and Daddy went to football matches and Daddy sorted out a ...
Back to Colonial
... . Feeling a little uncomfortable we we jumped in the first cab that came by and headed back to safer grounds, bad lonely planet! Granada town centre, although a bit dated now, still holds a certain charm and has a very colonial feel to it with it's square ...
PAULS BIRTHDAY by FYNN
Miercoles 9 Junio We had some breakfast and then had a maths lesson with Lester while Edie buyed a cake with Josalin.After that we went to the kids school .When we were there for five or ten minutes a teacher brang a piñata in and all of us hit it ...
MAS ESCUELA by FYNN
Martes 1 Junio We went to the Spanish school in the morning and learnt more words. This time it was all about workers. After that we had lunch at the Garden Café. Then we went to the Kids school and mummy and daddy visited where they hope ...
LAST DAY AT GRANADA by EDIE
... a great place to view the whole city and look out to Lake Nicaragua, We moved on to the cemetery where many of Nicaragua’s presidents have been buried. What is great about Granada is that when any of the buildings fall down (and some ...
day 7 observations
Some observations of nicaragua... The most obvious thing you notice in granada is that 1) Its hard to find trash cans and 2) they dont seem to use them. Trash simply gets thrown on the ground. So its everywhere. For example, when the man made a belt ...
EXAMS AND BINGO by LILY
... it made us think what more we could do – in addition to giving our time over the short space of time we were in Nicaragua. How we could possibly give and help raise some money to see if we could help them realise their dream of building a new school ...
Volcano Climb Part 2
... from Leon today after some of our group were delayed during volcano boarding due to somebody going missing. So a late arrival in Granada after waiting for the missing person to be found. A few of us spent the morning having a look around the ...
Granada Through the Cigar Smoke
... Fruit our favorite spot for breakfast! We had been told by one of the guys from Dreamcatcher to visit one of Nicaragua's Cigar producers (recognised along with Cuba, as the best cigar manufacturers in the world). We stopped by Mombacho Cigars ...
Granada
... put on the floor for us because the beds were full - places are getting busy now due to Santa Semana (holy week). Nicaragua has really dodgy electricity and water supplies at the moment so lights generally went off pretty frequently and the showers were ...
one night in the bearded monkey is enough!
... to leave Leon - i had gone for 3 days and landed up staying 2 weeks! A bunch of us decided to move on down to Granada, a gorgeous little colonial town about an hour or so south east of managua, so we hopped on the minibuses and made it down there fairly ...
cam
Lovely little colonial city crammed full of gringos & therefore more varied but expensive restaurants & bars. Went to the fort, where I ascended vertical steps through a trapdoor into one of the guard towers that has views over the city - ...
The team reunited
Friday 29th January 2010: Stayed in the highly recommended hostel ´The Bearded Monkey´, and I have to say it´s fantastic. Roomy dorms, big common area, great food and hammocks galore. Though first night I was in an upper bunk, the first time this ...
GOING TO THE ZOO by FYNN
... saw a Tapir, Jaguar, Puma, Ocelot, Margay, Lion, Lioness, Tiger and lots more. Then we got on a bus and went back to Granada. Mummy was so upset because she did not see the Tapir. In the afternoon we went to the other school and finished our ...
getting ripped off
... this week we were charged $19 for a 15 minute cab ride, but I had no choice. we had to check out of our hotel in granada by 11am but were stuck at leguna de apollo the prior night. None of the cab companies would drive out to leguna de apollo for any ...
OMATEPE by EDIE
... match between England and USA. So after our boat trip from San Jorge to the islands of Omatepe which is in the middle of Lake Nicaragua and hosts one live volcano and one dead, we drove straight to our hotel to watch the game. There was no need to ...
Granada
Spanish study and scorpion in tha house ;)
After getting ready around 7:55 I went of to my Spanish class.. Four more days..Yes, Karla was back.. So back to normal, learning a lot in a short time.. After my lessons I went back to my accommodation had a chat with the dutch girl and the dutch guy ...
Granada
... found for us. From here we drove to a little town called Catrina. This has stunning views over the crater lake, Granada, Lake Nicaragua and Volcano Mombacho. Back in Granada we went for another really good meal. Unable to decide what pudding to have ...
Granada
Travelled by chicken bus from Leon to Granada this morning with T and Iain, my Canadian card partners from last night. We made it without incident and checked into the Bearded Monkey, an excellent hostel with free internet, hammocks, and an overweight cat ...
Lovin Nicaragua
Here I am in Granada, Nicaragua. I am a bit more accessible than I was a few days ago. Geez, what an awesome country! Who would have thought? As I quietly zipped through the water on the front of a boat today and stared off into palm trees, and fruit ...
Chocolately Granada
... the city sights. All streets lead from the city centre down to the pier, on the edge of the huge Lago Nicaragua (Latin America's second biggest lake, apparently home to freshwater sharks - eek!). We spent our time strolling around the streets and ...
Cat Rescue
... a journey that costs no more than $5 on the public buses which realy arent that bad at all for the short journeys. Granada ia a beautiful colonial city. We were offered directions ot the hostel but the guy then followed us, got lost himself and demanded ...
BIENVENIDA JANA by LILY
... and then Francesca in Colombia so it was fantastic to have Jana come over for a week to Nicaragua. After lunch we took Jana for a walk around Granada and for her to be introduced to somewhere completely different. In fact Jana has only been ...