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- Managua
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- Cordoba Oro (NIO)
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Granada Slideshow
Granada
Travel Blogs from Granada, Nicaragua
Granada
Too hot to do anything here, walked around the colourful streets with painted buildings tasting the local dishes and just sweating too much. Not much to write because I really didn't to anything. ...
Moving South
... last leg, San Salvador to Managua, the plane is delayed two hours. UGH. All this comes with a great reward: Granada, Nicaragua and the Bohemian Paradise Hotel. We´re met at the airport by the reliable taxi service, Paxeos, to make ...
the monkey always wins.....
... it's hotter than one can imagine….it must be only a bit further…we’re walking along the coast of Lake Nicaragua, people are bathing, washing their clothes...but no pangas. We enter a giant park…we’re approached by young ...
Irish pubs, Imagine bars and Independence day
... connection to the Caribbean coast, I found myself on the bus to Granada. A small colonial town on the shores of lake Nicaragua, Granada is picture postcard perfect, friendly and inviting, and full of local charm. Most people harp on about the views of ...
A town with a noticible socioeconomic gap
... our hotel that night, retrieved it early the next morning, enjoyed a casual breakfast and planned to high-tail it out of Granada ASAP. Apparently sometimes fellow travelers are right: places exist that you wouldn´t want to see for more than a day. ...
Isletas de Granada
Fuer jeden Tag im Jahr gibt es hier eine Insel. 365 Inseln liegen direkt vor dem Hafen von Granada. Von kleinen und grossen ueber unbewohnte und bewohnte Inseln bis hinzu einer Insel auf der es 4 Affen gibt die auf der Suche nach Essen die Boote ...
Nights in Granada
... that surrounded the top of the mountain. It was absolutely beautiful. From where we were, you could see over Lake Nicaragua and Granada. Gorgeous. The men in Nicaragua are charming, to say the least. They do not restrain when they see a group of ...
First Stop - Granada, Nicaragua
This, quaint and charming colonial city along the shore of Lake Nicaragua represents the first taste of this lovely ...
A lovely colonial city.
... centre of the building. We have a drink in a posh cafe bar with a particularly beautiful garden. A horse and carriage ride takes us to Lake Nicaragua for a boat ride round the Isletas de Granada. Dancing in the evening at a local bar. ...
City Break
... after a $8 each cab ride - not bad. The reason we´d had issues with where to go, if you look at a map of Nicaragua, becomes more obvious. In its history, the Spanish had founded two towns, Leon and Granada, which both grew wealthy and today are acclaimed ...
in Granada gut gelandet
... sind und uns jetzt nur noch mit Menschen im naechsten Ort treffen und nicht um mit ihnen zusammenzufahren. Mit verschiedenen Microbussen sind wir dann nach Granada gefahren (einmal Bus wechseln in Managua) Hier unsere ersten EIndruecke von der Stadt ...
Charming Granada
... ; I thought briefly about buying a rocking chair, but the part about getting it home quickly dissipated my interest. Granada is located on Lago de Nicaragua; overlooking the city is Mount Mombacho, a volcano that still spews the odd puff of ...
La ville des palais du Nicaragua
Nous voilà à Granada, ville des palais du Nicaragua… Après avoir choisit notre hostel qui va s’adonner être un sauna, mais bon, pas cher… et bien situé…en plein downtown Granada… à côté du joli parc central, ou ...
Las Isletas
We woke up this morning to a very humid day. Much more so than the previous days. We wandered up to the park, through the church, over to the open-air market and then down the street from there to the grocery to buy some Nicaraguan coffee. We hadn't ...
Back into the heat
Hi Guys! Angela and I are safe and sound in Nicaragua. We had an easy trip, no problems. Samatha Brown, that bubbly girl who hosts the show on the travel channel was seated directly in front of us on the plane into ...
Some more details for everyone
... be part of. More about the strike. We´ve heard more than one story as to why this strike is occuring. First, apparently Nicaragua receives their gas cheap from Venezuala. The rich buy the gas, and end up reselling and keeping the distance. Gas in ...
beautiful city
... speak it. First we went to San Francisco convent, which now houses a museum of precolumbian artifacts and the history or Granada. After that, we walked around the city and visited two of the churches (mom, you should be proud of ...
The gold town
... extracted a lot of gold to bring back to Spain. They actually used the same route as I just had travelled. Over Lago de Nicaragua, through the river systems out to the Caribbean coast and home. As I walked through this town, I could see the roots of this ...
Like Coming Home
... La Perla and it was another smooth 90 minute ride back to Managua, jump in another minibus for another hour and we arrived in Granada, a place we visited two years ago. We also arranged to stay at the fabulous Bohemian Paradise, owned and run by Lucy, an ...
Enjoying Granada´s Colonial Charm
... charm that resides here, the warmth of the people, and pleasant climate. We took a nice carriage ride through the streets of Granada. Later in the afternoon, I indulged in a bargain massge and a newly opened spa right down the road from ...
Feb 25, 2012
The Germans
... on them after they left him in the restaurant and then had followed us after we spoke to them. Granada is a very beautiful town on the shore of Lake Nicaragua. The lake is so big that the early Spanish called it the freshwater sea. The city centre has ...
Volcano Masaya Trip
Today we all went on the $30 day long trip with Tierra tours. At 10pm we were taken to a pottery making factory wherethey showed us the process of making a potthen we had the opportunity to buy. We were then taken to a small town called Katrina to try ...
Nicking thru Nicaragua
... Pan Americana, which was in pretty good nick, which pleasantly surprised us. Headed for the colonial city of Granada, on the shores of the lake, Lago Nicaragua, the 10th largest lake in the world. Dominated by an island that is made up of two well shaped ...
Leon and Granada
At some point I will endeavour to write about our experience in Honduras, which we visited before getting to Nicaragua. However I'm still a little tramautised by the ordeal, so this story starts at the Nicaraguan border. Being old hands at crossing ...
Soy la gringa con la suerte mal!
... told me I could wait until tomorrow to start volunteering at the clinic since I can barely walk. So, now I am just hobbling around Granada getting my bearings and will make it an early night tonight, I hope. On a positive note, it hasn't rained ...
por fin estoy aqui!
... that I think its worth writing it all down! So I will keep this updated with any exciting news, on a massive money saving mission so im going to cook tonight, which will probably make a good story.... lots of love y besos de Nicaragua! ...
Granada oh Granada
... stayed here a little too long... went on day trips to masaya and lago de apoyo. hired bikes and checked out lago de nicaragua with justy and chels. pretty cool little town. big really population 80,000+. Chicken buses, main street market madness, comida ...