Casa Ivana Leon

2a Calle SE Leon, Nicaragua

Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HostelCasa Ivana Leon

You can´t whack colonial cities

A travel blog entry by charding

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Well, in true Monkey Team spawniness we made it to Leon a day early. We originally planned to catch the 6am bus from Tegucigalpa and reach Leon via another bus later in the day. However, the bus was sold out so we were forced to take the 9am bus with a different company. But as we are rapidly finding out, Latin American times are much like Indian …

Riding giants - this time a volcano

A travel blog entry by dcinternational

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Surf´s up again. However this time no waves!

Conveniently placed near Leon is a medium sized volcano that having erupted a few years ago has one side covered in a sort of sandy scree. Not sure which crazy fool first decided to hike and slide down this monster but thanks be to them as this is now a well developed activity.

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Hottest city ever

A travel blog entry by lenitasworld

Another experience was just waiting to be added to our list when we "boarded" the bus to Leon. We had a special type of passenger. Chicken are already standard, otherwise those buses wouldn't be called chicken buses, but pigs? We stopped and a guy on the side of the road made a sign for the bus to wait. He walked over to the tree where a happy pig …

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Sandboarding and Hiking Volcanoes

A travel blog entry by onyfootprintz

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We spent 4 nights in a town called Leon and it was so far the craziest 4 days we have had so far! We had heard Leon was the place to come too for fun hostels, good vlocano hikes and good adventures. We were really wanting to find a good hike, even a multiday one. So we set out to see what Leon held for us. We spent our first day there hiking up and Sandboarding down a volcano called Cerro Negro. The volcano is covered in tiny black rocks the size of small pebbles ...

Craziness!

A travel blog entry by onyfootprintz

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What a day!! Wow, where to even start, ok well maybe I will start with when the alarm went off at 5 this morning and we were off to the airport to begin our day full of craziness... I think we can say we have now been on the scariest plane ride of our lives as of this morning. We left our hotel in Utila at 5:30 this morning to get to the airport  for check in a whole 15 minutes early before boarding this tiny 12 seater plane to get to the ...