Country Info
- Managua
- Capital
- Cordoba Oro (NIO)
- Currency
- 4,918,393
- Population
- NI
- Country Code
Managua Slideshow
Managua
Travel Blogs from Managua, Nicaragua
A lightning visit to Nicaragua.
... it. No, I HATED it, with capital letters. And I don't like hating places without really getting to know them first. All I saw of Managua was a sprall of shit. I couldn't find the centre, but it turns out that Managua doesn't have a centre - it was ...
The first stop
... ;anywhere I happened to be ( I anticipate some funny jokes on this one from some of you). By the first observation, Nicaragua is really a poor country with some criminality problems (before they let me enter a bank branch to withdraw some ...
Managua - eerily quiet
Arrived in Managua , the capital of Nicaragua , on Tuesday morning . The bus ride was really good only about 1.5 hours along a very smooth and straight road ... highly unusual for Latin America. Found a hostel and went looking for a laundrette - the ...
July 19th - i Viva la revolucion !
... Saturday - July 19th - saw the 29th anniversary of the success of the Sandinista revolution, which was celebrated in style in Managua. I went with a few of the other volunteers to experience what I was hoping would be quite a historical occasion - we ...
To the capital.........
... not good!!! Still a few people started to join us and eventually we were on our way on the hot and sweaty bus. The write up for Managua was not great so we didn't expect much from it. We were attacked by the taxi touts straight off the bus as usual and ...
Candlelit dinner for three...plus two dogs rooting
Roxette: It must have been love (Unfortunately it was not over now...guess we have the Swedes to thank for that one!) Laguna de Apoyo is the place Granadans get away from the city and where I spent a great weekend with Lisa, Shannan and Andreas ...
Managua to San Juan Del Sur
... , and maybe grab some nosh on the way. Nathan learned quickly that navigator is not a job one takes lightly in Nicaragua, especially when one's keychain compass turns out to be worthless. Streets signs are almost non-existent there (Granada being ...
Restless
4/10/11 It is currently 3:30 a.m. on my internal clock, but I am for some reason very wide-awake. I knew I should not have slept on the flight down here! Happens every ...
Life at home and in the hospital
... van we drove, where the pharmacists give them their medicine. Well, the medicine they have. Side note: The beautiful thing about Nicaragua's health care is that is free. That means everyone can go for a check-up, and if the hospital has the medicine, ...
New Addy
... have to have something to tide me over a whole month. hehe Here's the addy: Carrie Martin A.P. #25 Ocotol, Nueva Segovia Nicaragua Central America Some of you have asked about kitty pics, you can see those and all of this week activities at ...
Cuajachillo Adventures
... things like this every day, but this was truly not much of a surprise to me. Health care does not work the same way in Nicaragua as it does in the US-health brigades meet in hair salons, women are taught to follow their cycle as a legitimate form of ...
It's almost done!
So, as many people have pointed out through emails or phone calls, I have kind of disappeared in recent weeks. Sorry. Things here are great, just busy. My health fair was last week, and although it certainly didn't go according to plan, it went well. We ...
I'm home!
... are definitely a little more modest, and the town is lacking some of the basic infrastructure found in the more "wealthy" parts of Nicaragua. However, we are still staying with middle class families, so while the houses may seem modest to us, we have it ...
The family visit, milk the cow, off to Panama, pic
... a Peace Corps volunteer). We lucked out and happened to be there when one of the authors of my tour book, Moon handbook Nicaragua, was doing a book signing. While the ambiance and set up of the rooms was seriously wonderful, our two rooms happened to have ...
Managua - La Chureca
... erschreckend... Trotz allem ist Nicaragua das sicherste Land in Zentralamerika (wer haette das gedacht?!). Abgesehen von Managua, fuehlte ich mich in Nicaragua wirklich immer sicher. Die Leute sind meist sehr hilfsbereit und freundlich. Aber als Frau ...
Dust, dust and more dust
... know when you´ll get it back), and I´m sure a lot more I just can´t think of it it... oh a huge protest in Managua replete with burning cars and guns. I fooled myself into thinking I could avoid bathing in a river- besides being covered in dust and ...
NicaTime
... My plane was going to be arriving late. I emailed the hostel. I arrived late .. and no free shuttle. A 15 dollar taxi ride was my only option. Yo Aqui ! I´m here. Speaking Spanish at the Managua Bacpacker Inn.- 11pm central ...
Managua Day 2
Up around 7, made breakfast. Messed around on the computer, talked to Dad about taxes. Bought my ticket for Corn Islands Sunday. Banking on the hope that I will not need to stay three days in Costa Rica. In the afternoon I took a taxi to a crazy market ...
Managua Day 3
... Made it just in time for the express bus that I had taken down yesterday. Three long hours later and I was back in lovely Managua. Cabbed to the hostel, reunited with my backpack, got food at the food court in the neighboring mall (been kind of binging ...
Chapter one- Jornada
4/10/2005 Here it´s been my first week in Murra and there was no time to soak it all in, it seemed there was always something going on. My first day I spent in the Centro de Salud getting to know the staff and creating a work station for myself ...
Dia Quatro
I love the warm balmy weather, just like Florida. Some Boys from Denmark are painting (tagging) Graffiti on the inter-wall near the pool. The little bread truck was making deliveries. I have a morning routine - walk to, in and around ...
Ortega wins, AVC, turkey for the first time!
... like the profe, who was in charge of COUNTING hundreds of votes, sat around and counted the votes and then faxed the results to Managua. The Election Day was Sunday, November 5 and by 1AM the morning of the 6th, we got our first preliminary results. This ...
Teacher Training & a Poet Laureate
... and "Riggy Lavelle" . His name is Carlos Mejia Godoy. A singer songwriter, He wrote the revolution songs and the national song of Nicaragua. He has his own club, a big grass shack, where he, his brothers and others put on a show of his "hits". ...
Arrival in Nicaragua
Well, after a 5 am lift to the airport and 2 planes later (yes, Xabier there are some carbon miles there) I have arrived in Managua, Nicaragua for the start of a 2 week Explore tour. It has been very sad to leave my friends in Honduras and do wish I was ...
Decisions, decisions, decisions
... expecting it to open up on us! Last night my mom ended up going to a culto (not atypical) and dad was on his monthly trip to managua to get more supplies for their store so it was just us "kids" in the house. I was doing my yoga when the next thing I ...
We are here!
Just a quick note to say we arrived safe and sound in Nicaragua a little while ago. Nothing too exciting to report just yet, just wanted to get a quick note out to say the adventure has officially begun! Heather and Charles ...
Pics from MBI
Poolside mural after three Cuba Libres.(Rum&Cokes), The DVD library and the kitchen door at ...
Despedidas, despedias, and more despedidas
... to go all the way down! It was quite a rush and we got some good pics, I think even a video... only in Nicaragua! hehe If anyone knows of any contacts that could help me acquire reading materials in Spanish (including information on practicing safe ...
Mountains beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
... _order=0 One of the things about lack of money, it breds creativity. We were all especially low on fundage with all the traveling to Managua for our Independent studies- so we found a recipie for Baily{s online and I and my friend made a tup o baliy{s - ...
