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Leon Slideshow
Leon
Travel Blogs from Leon, Nicaragua
León Day 8
Slept in Aaron's tent (I carried food to make up for it). Pretty restful all considering. It was incredibly windy in the night, the tent was loud but my earplugs helped. The half sized foam pad actually felt pretty good, no issues with that. Got woken up ...
Camioneta Taxi
I took a Camioneta (pickup truck with covered, framed-in, bed) out to the local landing strip. It got packed. I could feel people up against me on all sides. There were 30 people in the back of this thing. It costs about 30 cents.See the ...
surfing a volcano
Day 1 - Around Town Left Managua pretty early to make sure I had some time in Leon. Taxi driver was kind enough to drop me off at the minibus station rather than the chicken bus staion and even though I had an extra 30min wait due to one of the minibuses ...
León Day 14
Wow two weeks have gone by quick. Up for class with too little sleep, visited a museum with my spanish teacher Angel. He acted as a guide. It was the museum of myths and legends at the site of an old jail and it was very interesting. There were places ...
Hell's Bells!
The Church bells started ringing in the dark this morning - like roosters. There is a big cathedral every 2 blocks here. Don't forget the firecrackers going off, celebrating Xmas ...
León Day 1-3
Sunday. Caught the panga at 630am and had a tranquilo ride to Big Corn. Took a taxi to the airport and got on the flight no problem. La Costeña is uhhh inept to say the least. Going with Tim and Chris (who I met on the flight over exactly five weeks ...
Just hanging out in Leon
... to the art museum that was said to be pretty good. Only to find that it was closed. Then on to the Rubio Dario (Nicaragua's/Central America's most famous poet) museum. It too was closed. I forgot most museums are closed on Mondays. Our last hope at ...
Leaving for Leon
So early the next morning we took the 6:45am bus from Esteli to Leon, the former colonial capital of Nicaragua. This was an "expresso" bus straight to Leon, but be wary if you choose this path of travel - the road from Esteli to Leon is in ruins, full of ...
León Day 2
... the evening I met set some travellers and we spent a few hours swapping stories. Had been awhile so it was nice. Sometimes gets a bit old, these samey coversations but other times it feels good also I got some great info about travelling through ...
León Day 15
Last day of Spanish school for awhile. I asked Angel questions about Nicaraguan history and got a good 2 hours of history in Spanish, felt useful. Two birds with one stone! After class went to Quetzaltrekkers to see if the hike was still going. I was ...
León Day 5
Was able to sleep in til around 10am. Said goodbye to dormmates, whole dorm is emptying. Picked up my laundry, went and found breakfast by myself. Sweated like a pig wow it is hot here. Even cloudy. Went to a Spanish school and enquired about a week of ...
No Can Dance
... off - Masses and parades with Mary statues. I just returned from the Giantonas competition on the steps of the Leon Cathedral. A dozen groups of Giantonas and Pepes competed. They are all kids and their sponsors. Lots of people again at ...
Courting Colonial Cities
A day on a super inter-nation Ticabus found Chris and myself soaking up the sunshine of Nicaragua and the culture of the colonial city of Leon. After lugging our rucksacks to our abode of choice, the Casa Ivana, we set about exploring the city. I was ...
I'm Just Like You
A traveler I met was such a player, his comment after he met a young lady was always, "I'm just like you:" It didn't matter what she had said. He was always lying. And they would buy into it. Amazing. So I hope everyone is enjoying ...
Mooching around Leon
Today we visited Leon Cathedral and the Entemology (Bug) museum. Really nice views of Leon and the surrounding Volcanoes from the top of the cathedral. Some of the bugs in the museum were crazy big and they had live spiders in tanks just for ...
Leon
... paper clipping on the wall. The building used for this one of the headquarters for the freedom fighters. Nicaragua has had a bloody past over the last 130years and Leon has seen alot of it. The tour Allowed us on to the roof of the building opposite the ...
León Day 11
Getting less people visiting the blog, which feels kind of nice. Less pressure hah. Guess the daily updates are gettin g old. For me, I feel like I need to journal, get the words out of my head. Today was actually not terribly exciting. Finally moved my ...
It's Party Night!!
... blind drunk on party night. After booking our hike we discovered that tonight is one of the biggest celebrations in Nicaragua and especially in Leon! The idea of getting up at 5am tomorrow morning doesn´t appeal any longer. We spent some time in ...
nica
Hey Everyone! I made it to nicaragua and am loving life right now. So far this country has been amazing and i´ve only been here 4 days. It was a little crazy at first being a new place and not being able to speak spanish, but i´ve managed to get by. ...
León Day 7
Woke up at 6am and felt... Better. Decided to risk it. I really wanted to do this hike. And I am so happy that I did! Went over to the Quetzaltrekkers office around 7am and met the others doing the trek. Three guides: Janet, Emma and Raf, and four ...
Free Online Spanish Courses
Free internet at the hostels makes learning Spanish easier: www.bbc.co.uk/languages (BBC) www.lingolex.com www.studyspanish.com www.123teachme.com www.spanishpronto.com ...
Leon
... or 90s music. And it seems they prefer the love english songs! One day in Honduras, the driver put a cd of Gun´N Roses! Leon is a colonial and very quiet city. After finding an hotel, we visited the city. They have 3 churches very different from each ...
Leaving the Beach
... We caught a chicken bus around 11am and headed back to Leon where we had to stay for a night before heading down to Granada. In Leon we headed back to the Hostal Colibri and the landlady was quick to offer us the same room as last week. We spent ...
León Day 3
Breakfast, hung out at hostel while it was ridiculously hot. In the afternoon though I went to a rooster fight. Uh yeah. A cockfight. At 3pm, went with some people from this hostel and others to watch roosters fight. When we got there there was about 100 ...
Lazybones
... ) started randomly clanging it's rather flat bell at 5.30 this morning!! Still at least there isn´t a rooster for a neighbour here. Leon used to be tha capital but in that old Melbourne/Sydney way Granada thought it should be instead, so now Managua ...
The invisible woman
... Nothing like seeing the bullet holes and the crosses painted on the road to bring recent history home. Sadly for Nicaragua the Sandinista government is as corrupt (though not as murderous) as the Samosas. Millions upon millions of dollars ...
Another Interesting Day In Leon
First, the local legend of Leon. Forget the Virgin Mary, Juan Diego, Giantonas, Pepe, and all that. I see this T shirt for sale that has a woman with a single breast exposed, chasing a man.The caption says "Toma tu Teta" or ...
León Day 6
Woke up after 3-4 hours sleep feeling OK. Just wanted to rest my feet mostly so read and finished a not very great western book I was reading, got some dinner an visited a pharmacy. Had to visit pharmacy because I seemed to be visitinf the toilet quite ...
León Day 4
Was able to sleep in til around 10am. Said goodbye to dormmates, whole dorm is emptying. Picked up my laundry, went and found breakfast by myself. Sweated like a pig wow it is hot here. Even cloudy. Went to a Spanish school and enquired about a week of ...