El Castillo Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Day 2 of our cashless existence! There are 3 main things one can do in El Castillo apart from the fortress visit: - go fishing to the Caribbean (turpin all over) - go caiman spotting at night - horse riding around the hills As we had plenty of caiman in the restaurant and we are not anglers, we decided on our favourite pass time...and for $15 do...

Afin de finir en beauté, j'ai voulu train** mes vieux os dans une partie assez reculée du Nicaragua, sur le fleuve San Juan. Rien que pour y all**, tu as une première étape de 9 heures de f**ry de nuit. Tu prends une 2éme classe histoire de vouloir la jou** locale mais bon, c'est plein, ça sent le fauve et tu te dis que les prochaines 9 heures v...

English at the bottom Viaje por la noche de 11 horas en un barco tan lleno como los chicken buses de Guatemala, para llegar a San Carlos y de ahí tres horitas mas en otra lancha para el Castillo a través del río San Juan, al principio no había tickets para el barco pero ya se sabe que antes se hunde el barco que la compañía deje de ingresar dine...

We arrived in San Carlos at 6am after our nightmare boat journey from Omitepe. We had hoped to get the 8am boat up the Rio San Juan to El Castillo but it was full so a group of us had to wait for the one at 10.30. Not a lot to do in San Carlos but we got some bread and bananas and coffees and had breakfast on the dock. The trip up the river was ...

After spending most of the day hanging about at the resort, we set off late afternoon for Altagracia. A packed bus and then a fortuitous pickup got us to the pretty shabby looking port. Our overnight ferry to San Carlos awaited, but was an hour late arriving and another hour before we left. Like all the travellers, we got first class tickets (no...

The owner of the Hotel Ric******* served us a nice breakfast of fresh fruit, juice, coffee and toast on the back veranda. After eating, we set out up the hill to go to El Fortaleza. It's a fortress built by the Spanish in 1675 to keep marauding pirates from reaching Lake Cocibolca and Granada. Previous to it's erection, pirates had twice been ab...

Okay- so I have been a little out of touch. I am still in the middle of nowhere and can´t even believe I have managed to find internet. There aren´t even cars here- there isn´t even a road except for the river. I am in a town called El Castillo on the San Juan river in southern Nicaragua. The river borders Costa Rica most of the way but right no...