Best Western Las Mercedes Managua

... 4.... this is when i lose the plot... i said we agreed on $2.. he insists $4... so it ends up i throw $2 at him and slam his door so hard that i think its off the hinges.... taxi driver is angry but we even more angrier.... he decides to back down... i tell him to politely **** and stop ripping tourists off in my best Spanish.... doubt it will work but God lover a trier...<br><br>Stay right beside bus station as our bus is at 4am the next morning.... walk down ...

... and basically got over my hangover. There wasnt anything to spectacular about the lake, but definately a good place to chill out for the day.<br><br>20th July<br>Up at the crack off dawn and take off to visit Volcan Masaya. Its about half hour from Granada and is a crater with sulfer and gas spewing out, at night I think at times you can see lava glow from the bottom.<br>There were signs everywhere saying not to stay in the area for longer than 20 minutes due ...

De plannen zijn gewijzigd......we gaan El Salvador vandaag verlaten. We hadden nog het idee om een tussenstop te maken in San Miguel, om een uitstap te kunnen maken naar Perquin, maar we gaan vandaag door naar Managua in Nicaragua. We hadden eerder al besloten om niet te gaan vliegen omdat de kosten hoog zijn dus vandaag moeten we eraan geloven om een flinke trip te gaan maken naar Nicaragua....mede ook door de berichten over Honduras na de coupe van afgelopen ...

... rule in visiting another country is to not act out of place. For five fifteen year olds, this was a difficult task. Our designer clothes, shoes, bags and uppity personality gave us away too many of the locals, not to mention our Spanish was horrible. Yet seeing what articles I had on me made me feel fortunate for the life I was given and selfish that I had not worked a day in my life to earn anything I owned. Anyway, as we hoped back in the caravan we were told that ...

... few 100mtrs down the highway, was a walking pottery factory. There was literally nothing else there. After being lured into a man's house for a pottery demonstration I accidentaly bought a vase. Oops. I now have to carry a ceramic vase around with me. To make matters worse, the next day I accidentally wandered into a hammock making workshop. I left $20 lighter with a backpack 20kg heavier. And yes, I do know how popular hammocks are in rainy, grey, England.

... to take a side trip to Nicaragua for a few days and then come back to start the work. We peeled ourselves away from the 1st class glory of Playa Flamingo, and folded ourselves back into a stuffy 2nd class bus. The heat, as previously mentioned, felt like it was melting the skin off our bodies, as we shuffled around the transfer city of Liberia. A friend of Dawn's had given us detailed instructions on how to catch ...

... every tall edifice available - the fort, the church tower and a bit of raised ground. Updated my blog with pix as far a Coasta Rica (my sloth can now be aaaahed over!) yesterday afternoon and emerged from the cyber cafe with another migraine. Realised at 5am this morning while listening to the rooster and the bells that it was time to visit a dentist and get my teeth cleaned ...

Managua was my first experience of a city without a center. Usually that's because of the way the city was built, in the Late Modern Age of automobiles and their parking-lot suburbs. In Managua&#8217;s case, though, there is no center because it was destroyed by the previous year&#8217;s earthquake (I can&#8217;t remember if this was the ...