Hotel Don Quijote Managua

... them. <br><br>We have our statement. Travel Insurance will only accept the original copies and I will probably have to wait till I get home again before putting in a claim. The statement is also in Spanish so that could pose problems and we may have to get it translated. <br><br>It is weird when this type of thing happens to you, you have such a clear head, you know exactly what is happening around you, the adrenaline kicks in and you remember all the ...

... be an apostrophe somewhere but I can{t find it!<br><br>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.<br><br>Lots to catch up on from Roatan, which I{ll do ASAP! Gotta get a better grasp on this keyboard first....

... night you can i think just a bunch of smoke and a strong smell of sulfur in the air so our guide showed us a hostel and we got a room in granada for 15 US dollars. it is a shared bath but private room with no a/c but does have a fan. its clean and has free internet. we went and grabbed a late lunch 2 bottled water 4 beers shared nachos after tax is was $8.75 US - it is awesome - we just took a nap now we are about to go explore peace ryan and randi

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 ...

... but fast hiking I was already hurting. We did not make it up the volcano and started down shortly afterwards, cutting our hike to a wee 5 hours. The amazing cold shower afterwards couldn´t have been better. Mayogalpa or something like that: Attempt to leave the island but are stranded instead. Turns out the strong but deadly winds weren´t allowing boats, ferries or anything in or out of the island. We, along with a bunch of ...

What a journey we had to Granada from San Jose! We decided to take local buses as it would be far cheaper than a tourist bus, so we started off our journey early yesterday morning. The bus to the border of Costa Rica wasn't too bad but then we were left with little option but a chicken bus the rest of the way! These are the old, yellow American school buses, and are loads of fun but very crowded. Certainly not for those ...

... dedicated to Félix Rubéen García Sarmiento better known as 'Rubén Darío'. Rubén Darío is a Nicaraguan poet (Metapa, January 18, 1867 &#8211; Leon February 6, 1916) who initiated Spanish-American literary movement known as Modernismo. Darío is also revered as Nicaragua's greatest diplomat and a leading voice of Central and South America. The fountain was sculpted from Italian marble in 1933, by architect Mario Favilli (restored in 1997). Passages from some of Darío's most ...

... three days in Granada seeing the pre-columbian ruins and touring the 350 islands in the area. One day our boat was over taken by a hungry monkey who went through our bags bearing its teeth and screaching at us. Our guide told us to just stay away or it would certainly bite us. Monkeys aren't so cute anymore. We toured some of the churches in the city some of which were built in the 1500s and haven't seen much improvement since it seems. After a few days in ...

... so id have the energy to go for a walk and a swim in the lake. quiet night that night just planning next stops. next day beck trekked up a massive volcano and i slept and walked around feeling ill.- met some nice people at the hostel and chatted with them over dinner and then spent lots of fun times playing guess kates mystery illness. we have everything from a tape worm to a problem with my brain. they gave me their email address so when ...

... 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 ...