Hotel Campestre Plaza Azul Managua

... skilled in martial arts, has tones of dragon tattoes and you will never guess his full name. Jackie Chan. I am still beside myself with entertainment. Pretty much the house is awesome, everyone is super nice and chill so I am pretty pumped as far being here goes. Catherine and Leo explained that this is the "honeymoon" phase of culture shock, where everything is super interesting. For example, we are actually going to visit a dump full of semi-homeless people this afternoon and I couldn ...

... the area of the hotel we were looking for, we only found it after some guys on motorcycles took us there! The lonely planet was a little astray this time, but perhaps we should have arrived by taxi.<br>Stopped at the Hotel Casa Venegas, and went to the famous Shannon's Irish bar just up the road, well it was green with Guiness flags, but that´s about it and the Spanish kareoke was horrendous.<br><br><br>

... I didn't go hungry haha! Overall, it was a fun and good time! <br><br>I am looking forward to tomorrow. We have a soccer game set up for the morning and then more concrete plans for the afternoon. The soccer game is advertised as WFU vs. NicaHope. They apparently have a girls soccer team (from the school), so as I understand it, we are playing an actual competitive game! This should be interesting!.... hahaha

... up and rode the bus for about 20 minutes to Volcan Masaya National Park. We did 4 different things within the park, and each "excursion" kept getting better and better. Everything about the park was incredible. Our first stop was the visitor center. Here we learned a lot about volcanoes, lava, geography, and other interesting stuff - including Volcan Masaya is like one of the few active volcanoes in Central America... prettty cool!<br><br>Next we ...

... want to be a big girl and so I will wait for the reason this happened... THERE MUST be a reason, or...!!! THe really bad thing is beeing in a very nice little city and not be able to walk around, make pictures or just buy some food. The hostal people are very nice, they will by me food and so I have now much time to jump around on my one leg, to read (Richard Bach, The Bridge...), to mail, to think about the deeper meaning of this action. I send you many heartcoming greetings home!!!

... 3 hours on the way down, with some tumbles we arrived back at the Finka, happy to not be in the need to move any more! With the relaxed atmosphere in the middle of nowhere all the people of the Finka felt very close at nights.. so you got to know many people... drinking rum and talking about the experiences of the day. That night we met 2 Nicas, who invited us to go fishing the next morning. After waking up way too late.. we ended up after some more ...

... it was delicious I tell you. Checked out the museum for a bit and took a bunch of pictures. Ran into some folks and ended up wandering the streets around 3am. Just like home... G: Nice little breakfast croissant sandwich. Last day in Granada and still decided to not do the isletas tour, or visit la laguna de apoyo or the volcan mombacho. We´ve got all of that in Costa Rica and wanted to enjoy a nice and safe little city. Some ...

Tak jsem dnes konecne dorazil do hlavniho mesta Nikaraguy - Managua. Cestu jsem zacal v Tegucigalpe v pul seste rano a do Managuy dorazil po 14. hodine, takze jsem mel moznost se podivat ve ctvrti, kde bydlim Barrio Martha Quezada, kde je kraterove jezero a krasny vyhled na cele mesto. Vecer si pujdu odpocinout do mistniho baru. :) Posilam pozdrav ze slunecne a velmi teple nikaragujske metropole. :)

... that, like in the US, the victims were the taxi drivers. On the contrary, the victims here are almost routinely the passengers. The crime is robbery. Once on board, the taxi driver would stop and pick up another passenger, the robber, who would then rob the passenger and occasionally the driver. The driver and robber were often working together. People here try to improve their odds, by carrying a list of trusted drivers telephone numbers, then calling them ...

... things I put on the ¨too dangerous¨ list. But, I was going in a big group, so why not. Plus, how many Americans get to hear Hugo Chavez speak? <br><br>The fun started on the way down to Managua. The FSLN (still a political party) hires all the local buses to take people for free down to Managua. Everybody on the bus was dressed in red and black, waving homemade flags, and hanging out the bus windows waving to each other. Also, on my bus the played songs from the ...