Country Info
- Managua
- Capital
- Cordoba Oro (NIO)
- Currency
- 4,918,393
- Population
- NI
- Country Code
Managua Slideshow
Managua
Travel Blogs from Managua, Nicaragua
that was nice and unexpected
really must spend more time exploring here....that spanish course at the lake sounds good and the corn islands as good.... and i did know the way to the hostel yet how did i not find it??? then the worst one yet in a year......that toilet!!!! but an ...
Laguna Xiloa
... for me, well I fit right in except for the language. The local people all the way along have been very friendly and here in Nicaragua they love to come and talk with us but their version of spanish is more difficult for us to understand. We know enough ...
There's a rat in me kitchen what am I gonna do?
Arrived in Managua from Leon (only two hours away) having survived a plethora of pick pocketers, "scammers" and lying taxi drivers. Feeling rather pleased with ourselves we checked in to a seemingly nice hostel by the Tica bus station (do we never learn ...
Sleeping in an outdoor oven...
... Monteverde and headed down the bumpy road to San Juan del Sur (where I spent a lovely week last time I was passing through nicaragua). It was good to be back on the chicken buses, a cheap and definitely very cheerful way to travel. Unfortunately, as ...
Jokes on me
... a flight to Cuba, but I got to the airport at 5 in the morning to get the flight - and its $420 dollars! I knew it was too good to be true. So after one night in Managua I´ll mosey down the coast to Costa Rica, see what kind of trouble I can´t get ...
last day in Nicaragua
... iets om te drinken. We zetten de wekker op 5u30 en kruipen dan moe maar tevreden in bed. english text Our last day in Nicaragua! We finally leave hotel San José, in Chinandega, where we stayed overnight for 3 nights. We charge the car and drive to ...
El Salvador - Nicaragua
... , a orillas del Lago Nicaragua, con población permanente de hace más de 3.000 años. Fue candidata a ser capital de Nicaragua y mucho antes, fue invadida e incendiada varias veces por piratas... ¡de los de verdad! Hoy en día hay algunas edificaciones ...
Las Penitas
It was probably a bad idea to leave Leon on a Sunday as we were heading for the beach at the same time as all the locals! We waited on a bus packed with 100 + people for about 30 minues before it left and it then too about 1 hour to travel the 20k ...
Back to scary Managua
... in the National Palace. They provided an english speaking guide and she was fantastic and it really helped us understand the history of Nicaragua and its people. I don't remember her name but if you are ever in the museum, I would ask for the ...
Adios, Nicaragua: A Close Call by George Getschow
... out, Garrett was in a motorcycle accident two days earlier. He and Marshal, his Canadian traveling companion through Nicaragua, decided to ride around the circumference of two large volcanoes jutting out of Lake Nicaragua. Garrett said he had no ...
Quick Stop in the Big City
... we saw a roadside outdoor food place with a giant tub of something steaming away. We just had to stop and investigate. It was a Managua TYPICO dish called Baho (pronounced bow) steamed under plastic in large tub heated on wood stove. A cornucopia of meat, ...
Boat, Bus, Taxi, Bus, Bus Another Bus
... of hostelling and roughing it are officially over, past this tour. The tour guide, Susi warned us about the rough hotels in Nicaragua but to put us up in such squalour is enough to turn anyone off, even the budget travellers. Anyway, the travel ...
REALLY can't stand this city...
... still don't like it. There was still that hostile atmosphere I'd felt last time. If you're reading this and you're from Managua, please don't take offence. Please write me with good things to say about Managua. Went to see the new Bond movie. Dark and ...
Good luck with the bad - last days in Nicaragua
... fair to call the major event of the last week a fitting farewell, but it certainly did heighten our desire to leave Nicaragua. The past couple of days have been clearing up some odds and ends, and handing over our volunteering responsibilities to ...
Red Roof Tiles and Bricks Made the Old Fashion Way
... $30 to run the aircon. It is hard to believe the extra energy cost can add up to that much more. But is common at Nicaragua hotels to charge a big premium for AC. Also on this stretch of road we passed two Hugo Chavez funded electricity generation plants. ...
A weekend with friends
... to catch a movie and soak up some air-conditioned over-priced materialistic western comforts at a mall on the outskirts of Managua. After trying a few testers of expensive perfumes at the department store, and Frances and Becca stopping at a make-over ...
Goodbye Honduras!
... into a taxi to take me to one of the international coach stations. What followed was a ten hour journey to Managua - the capital of Nicaragua - which can most effectively be described in one word as "annoying". For a start, despite the fact that the ...
A rush to Guatemala
June 21, 2008 Managua, Nicaragua We are up early this morning to catch the local bus from San Juan del Sur to Managua. The bus is scheduled to leave at 5 AM which seems like an extreme hour. From our experience you can count on the driver waiting as ...
Saga continues...
... ,surrounded by mountains and a cool climate. The next city is Leon, classic colonial city with the largest cathedral in Nicaragua. This city is good for murals that depict the harsh political powers that destroyed Nicaraguans during the 1970´s. Of ...
Flight from Roatan to Managua (no entry)
Today was just a travel day with a Taca air flight from Roatan, Honduras to Managua, ...
La playa a Las Penitas
A break away from the city of Leon, we decided to visit the beach town of Las Penitas. Only 20 km away, we had to take a taxi to the outskirts of town, where we caught a local bus. Well it was mobbed (Sunday, eh - good timing!). Loads of kids and ...
Lake Xiloa
-A short drive to get to the ruins of Old Leon, this town was founded in 1524 as the first town in Nicaragua. Unfortunately it was built next to the Mombotombo Volcano, this erupted in 1609 and followed in 1610 by creating an earthquake, this led the ...
Managua
... and while everybody else is changing money and doing customs the American goes off and finds another beer. Four hours later we reach Managua. The heart of the city is full of derelict buildings left over from an earth quake in 1972. The only things left ...
Nicaragua!
... out every number at the top of his voice. It was a great atmosphere, with jokes (which I didn't get) and cries of "Viva Nicaragua!" galore. Feeling surprisingly drunk after just four bottles of beer, I got a taxi back to my hotel where I slept like a ...
Karen has gone off to Guatemala
... and we flew to the Corn Islands. We started at the same hostel Karen had stayed at previously which was on the outskirts of Managua near a large shopping mall. Subways for lunch at the mall.... yah! Karen had to catch a taxi at around 3am to get ...
Managua - It´s life Jim, but not as we know it...
... to continue any further but instead find a cheap place to haul up for the night and head off again in the morning. Managua is the Moss Eisley of Nicaragua, a hive of scum and villainy, well, the part we are staying in. Me and another guy had to pay two ...
Buses are killing me
... area.. Anyway i spotted this private bus passing so we hailed it down .. they let us on and we bought tickets to Managua the capitol of Nicaragua.. we were trying to get to Leon but were just happy to get the hell out of Honduras at this stage and ...
Life of Luxury!
Ben, Bex and I hop on the mini bus from Leon heading to Managua, just after the taxi driver warns us about how unsafe the city is. But it's okay, I have a connection in the city and we think we will be fine. My brother's, friend's, fiance's, sister ...