Hotel D'Lido Managua

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We{re on our way out to sightsee in Managua today to visit a local market and hopefully find a post office so that Mom can ship some of her overabundant supply of clothing home. Yes, I told her so! We{re looking forward to checking out all the handicrafts made in Nicaragua.

Lots to catch up on from Roatan, which I{ll do ASAP! Gotta get a better grasp on this keyboard first....

... and dance on it. The food was grilled in the stands. Nice chicken breast, fried plantains, coleslaw and coke tor three dollars. It was like a rugby match when a foul ball went in the stands. There was a group of five men in a circle and the pack would move and this went on for a minute and security had to go and then the pack separated and the fan ...

Semana Santa... a crazy time for travelling. Especially in Costa Rica. As it is such a catholic country all the people have almost the whole week off and go to the beaches or the mountains. As it was also for us a whole week without clases and other liabilities, we took the chance and headed off to close Nicaragua. At 5 am we just got it on time to catch our bus to the border. Arriving there at 6, we thought it wouldn´t take too long. Well, we were so naive ...

... Weird Nica lunch. Okay it was my fault since I ordered an enchilada and Daniel ordered a quesadilla. What we ended up getting and wolfing down was not that at all. Almost didn´t make it back to the Hacienda but we did and were dead tired. Hired a guide for the volcano hike the next day. Mérida: Get ready bright and early to hike the volcano. Only our bodies were at 15% since we were beaten down the day before. After 5 minutes of ...

... toerist kwamen we ook op dat gebied ruimschoots aan onze trekken. We maken erg graag bergtochten, en in Nicaragua moeten we er niet ver naar zoeken. Een hele keten met prachtige vulkanen ligt als het ware naar ons te lonken! We leveren dan ook zware fysieke inspanningen tijdens het beklimmen van meerdere vulkanen, sommige zijn zelfs nog actief! Het is een fantastische ...

... snad s brachou uvidime. ;) Nakoupil jsem par mp3 s reaggetonem a mariachi (zdejsi oblibena hudba) a dal si mistni jidlo. Uvidite na fotce. ;) Odpoledne jsem pak vyrazil do dalsiho mestecka v Nikarague. Jinak jsem potkal dva zajimave chlapiky z USA a Kanady, s nimiz jsme popijeli v okoli hostelu. Kazdopadne hlavni je, ze jsem Managuu prezil. :)

Hello all! Jeff and I decided that we wanted to blog a little about our trip even though its significantly shorter than our last adventure. I don't think the internet is fast enough here to upload pictures but perhaps in the next entry. This blog is a joint effort of Jeff and I. Clay: We landed in Managua, Nicaragua on Jan 8 at around noon and hit the ground running. We spent our first few days traveling with a guy from Spain that we met at the airport. We ...

... it at night, you can apparently see the lava. I also went to the crystal clear laguna de Apoyo, visited a ceramic school, and tried to make a vase but only succeeded in making a plate with a lot of help from the students. Last but not least, I got all my Christmas presents at the indigenous market of Masaya. As a group, we moved onto the island of Ometepe that could come straight out of a fairy tale with its two volcanic peaks rising from the lake of Nicaragua ...

... She only spoke a few words in English, but we accomplished a lot! I had my Roman's Road in Spanish worksheets with me, so she made me talk to everyone in Spanish. It was scary and exhilarating all at the same time. When I got to each Bible verse, she read them from the Bible. We got to lead 8 people to the Lord!!! We handed out tracts, and many said they ...

... the few 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?



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 ...