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Leon Slideshow
Leon
Travel Blogs from Leon, Nicaragua
Bienvenidos a Nicaragua!
... rucksacks about 3km to the Nicaraguan side. Stung again for muchos dineros - this time $3 to exit Honduras (scam!) and $7 to enter Nicaragua. At a well hidden bus station, we found a chicken bus heading for Leon (but not for another one and a half ...
It's all gone a bit Le ón.
... fits you only seem to get when you know you shouldn't be laughing. Everyone was being so serious too. Ops. Leon's a beautiful city, very colonial. One of the oldest universities in Central America's here so there's a really nice studenty atmosphere. Lots ...
León, die Profis
... wir ein bisschen aus Leon hinaus und erfuhren jede Menge historischer Facts und touristischer Infos rund um die Conquista in Nicaragua. Obschon der letzte Bus nach Leon zurueck um 1530 faehrt, fanden wir, wir seien locker schnellg enug um die 3 km zu der ...
Non-identical twins: learning to love Leon
... , and also took the time to read the Nicaraguan history section of my Bible. Realised that it is really all America's fault that Nicaragua is such a mess and felt a lot more kindly disposed to the place after that. Returned to the hotel and snuck back ...
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You can´t whack colonial cities
... every day though as a throw back to the mining days, fun times. I also quickly noticed the lack of Baleada´s in Nicaragua (I have become slowly addicted to them), so I have been forced to consume large stack of pancakes each morning instead. Around the ...
Dec 9: Day of rest before the volcano
... healthy as possible before tomorrow when we are hiking up Volcan Telica, a 2300 foot tall active volcano about 30 minutes ouside Leon. We are hiking it through Quetzal Treckers, a nonprofit whos income supports street kids here. We´ll get to camp at ...
Leon
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Turbulent History
... as the Cordillera de los Maaribios, a chain of volcanos that together form the stunning backdrop to Nicaragua's former capitol city, Leon Abundent with colonial cathedrals and impressive architecture, like so many Central American cities, Leon lends ...
Bei den Nicas
... Madera und am nächsten Tag fanden wir uns in mitten eines Surfwettbewerbes wieder. Beim "Central America Surf Championship" traten Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador und Guatemala als Teams gegeneinander an. Es war einmal spannend den "Profis" bei diesem ...
On to Nicaragua
After leaving El Salvador, we made our way to Leon, Nicaragua. We had to go through the capital city, Managua, although there is not much to do there. We had heard such good things about the colonial city of Leon from our traveling friends, and we really ...
The Gallera!
One of the most memorable experiences from Leon is definitely our afternoon at the Gallera. This is literally a chicken fight. Like boxing, but with roosters. It happens every Sunday in Sutiava, a little area on the outskirts of the town of Leon. It is ...
"Duck!!!" .....oops!
... had 4 stitches below my eyebrow & a huge bandage. The doctors didn`t examine my eye or cheekbone, so then we went to Leon hospital, crossing a picket line as the doctors were on strike for months, & a lovely doctor fully examined me & said ...
¡Viva León, jodido!
... ;était une des choses que je voulais faire absolument à Léon : le Cerro Negro (725m) est le plus jeune volcan du Nicaragua, apparu il y a seulement 150 ans. Ses éruptions sont fréquentes, la dernière datant de 1999. Les roches sont noires et chaudes ...
Helter Skelter
... on chicken b*ses to get there and scuba diving is an expensive activity which we had already done. So we headed for Leon in Nicaragua which was an epic journey itself and unbearably hot. The hostel we stayed in was crawling with drunk teenage Americans ...
3 days in Leon
... guy, Trevis, and a guy from the down-under. Especially Trevis is quite cool, spent already quite a few weeks in Honduras and Nicaragua, therefore he gave me some precious tips what to see or taste. He immediately took me to the local market to check out ...
Children of the Revolution
After a half day of travel we arrived in Léon, pesumably on of the gemstones of Nicaragua, at least for those who like churches. For those who don´t its and overvalued town, where the colonial atmosphere is long gone, and tonnes of paint, and police are ...
Life at Bigfoot Hostel!
After my "310 extractions" experience I returned to sunny Leon, & Darryn & I started going out officially (ish!).During that week, I joined him on his sunset tour to volcan Cerro Negro on Valentine's day afternoon, not sure how ...
Leon
... the rain that the holes were small ponds up to 2 ft deep and stretching for 6 to 8 ft. That said we got to the outskirts of Leon about 3.30 in the afternoon. Initially we started to drive into the town as we had a few different places to check to park; we ...
Nude awakening
... our clean clothes and quite frankly we stink. We also hit a bank as our cash reserve is down to a critical level. Leon is a great city, it´s people very Liberal. There are however very obtrusive smells everywhere and people do not take care of their ...
Manic Border Crossing With The Crew
... of the zone. Started the day with a good Honduran coffee with Chris who is going to meet his New York boyfriend in Managua, Nicaragua. We set out to get a chicken bus to Choluteca, then on to Guasaule border crossing, on to Chinandega then onto Leon all ...
Rules and Traffic Report
... the game and the rules which I will post at the end of this blog. Honduras Imigracion stamped my passport... okay over to Nicaragua imigracion. She was great...stamp this ... stamp that fill this out.. inspect the vin numbers on the bike. Give my ...
The TOP#2 experience to try before you die
A sério?! É mesmo possível surfar um vulcão?! CNN Thrill seeker's bucket list: 50 experiences to try before you die http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/play/50-thrilling-experiences-116798 Fui à BigFoot, mesmo do outro lado da ...
Surfboarding down a Volcano
After about an hour drive I arrived to the active volcano of Cerro Negro. It was really an interesting place. It was easy to see the destruction the eruption caused when the volcanic rock meets the bright green grass. After a 30 minute climb to the top, ...
Leon - churches and the revolution
Spent a couple of days in Leon , a colonial town in the West of Nicaragua which is renowned mainly for its churches and being a key centre of the fighting in the Sandinista revolution thirty years ago. So I did a personal walking tour on Saturday around ...
León warrants an extra day
... But first, we had to stop by for what the owner of a hostal/pizza Lebanese restaurant called the best Lebanese food in Nicaragua. Beside pizza, the menu had hummus, baba-ganoush, taboulleh salad and fatoosh! No baba -ganoush today. Dave settled for ...
Get off the volcano - its going to blow!
... this time I said, what the hell and decided to go with her, since I REALLY wanted to know about the history of Nicaragua. From what I could understand from what she was saying, there was a mean dictator called Samosa, who in typical dick-tator fashion ...
SO hot right now (literally)
Howdy Im now in my fourth Central American country, Nicaragua. I spent my last few days in El Zonte out of the water. The waves were big but not very rideable and I was sick. I managed to go and check out Punta Roca and have lunch at Jimmy Rotherhams ...