Hotel Dario Granada

After an early night last night (including the most delish fajitas we´ve ever had), we woke up ready to head to Granada. The cook at our hostel wasn´t ready, however, and we ended up waiting over an hour for breakfast. Oh well. We then took a taxi to the bus station, where we had to wait in line for about 30 minutes for the bus that went directly to Managua. On the way, I had the rare pleasure of being puked on by the three year old girl sitting next to me ...

We took a couple of days at the end of our month in Ocotal to visit the touristy city of Granada and we loved it. We had a nice hotel with internet access, a swimming pool, breakfast included, a bar, nice atmosphere -- couldn´t have asked for better. We enjoyed spending the days exploring the ...

... though. We arranged for our cab driver to meet us again after the trip and pick us back up for the 20 min ride to the main square ahead of time as there weren't many cabs hanging about there in the morning and it would have meant a long walk out to the entrance to see any sign of traffic.<br><br>After we made it back to town we decided to take the bus back to Managua for another $1US each and see what there was left to do there. More time spent walking about and ...

... I marvelled at these two sites over and over again and not just in Granada. Al loved telling me the story about this English couple him and Julian met in South America that had spent 9 months travelling through Central America. Apparently when they were in Nicaragua they ended up buying a rocking chair as an impulse purchase! They spent 3 days running around trying to get this thing couriered back to England and the person they bought it from had to dismantle it ...

... such a tiny dot of very little importance in the grand scheme of things and yet we belive for the majority of the time that we are the be all and end all. It was a very surreal feeling. <br><br>We got back to the lake by chicken bus - one of the local buses that fly along the main road and who stop for every Tom, Dick or Harry who needs a lift somewhere. It dropped us at the entrance to the lake where we then had to catch a cab back to the accomodation ...

... fact (my host sister's toe was clipped by a passing bike - not a pretty sight, and I had to fix it.), taking care of my fellow intern's host grandmother after she fell from her bed as a result of low blood sugar (she's diabetic... BOOYAH. how's that for those EMT skills)<br><br>In addition to helping with the daily functions of the clinic, I am<br>pursuing a project called &#8220;Plan de Parto,&#8221; which aims to reduce the<br>incidence of maternal and ...

... we were in Rivas - We had arrived in a hotel, where we'd be staying for the weekend for the first two days of orientation. I met my fellow intern, Claire who is absolutely wonderful! she spent spring semester in Costa Rica, and also spent a year in Ecuador... so I will have much to learn from her. Cynthia, who is the other site coordinator and Clarisol, site director. We dove right into talking about the ...

... America didn't really help their situation.<br>It is not just a case of bad guys against the good guys as the good guys turn out to be not that good...<br>But anyway, a bus (well, something that looks like it) is waiting for us in Managua and we continue our way to the colonial city of Granada. The road isn't that interesting: dusty and with a lot of cattle. I think Nica's are big meateaters. As a vegetarian, that might come as a shock for me but it isn't. <br><br>Hotal La Pergola is an ...

... Kayaktouren etc. Leider hatte man auch dort schon gelernt, die Touris und ihre Geldbeutel zu schröpfen. Na ja, auch ne Art Ess- und Alkoholkonsum in Grenzen zu halten :) Stattdessen schwangen wir uns auf zwei Leihraedler, mit dem Ziel, mittags um drei noch schnell die Insel zu umrunden. Rings um den Vulkan am Ufer entlang, das kann ja nicht so wild sein. Dachten wir! Hoch und runter und schwüles Wetter und dann noch eine ...

... Maderas (1394 meters), joined by a land isthmus.<br><br>nederlands<br>Een fantastische, unieke en fysieke ervaring is de beklimming van de 2 vulkanen op het grootste eiland, Isla de Ometepe, in het Nicaraguameer. Liefst aangepast schoeisel en een goede conditie vereist, want je bent vertrokken voor dagtochten van 9 à 10 uur! <br><br>Beide vulkanen zijn volledig verschillend. De Concepción (1610m) is een ...