Hotel Central Matagalpa

... am nächsten Morgen g**üstet zu sein.

D** Bus v**ließ Leon Dienstag früh pünktlich gegen 7 Uhr 30 und nach ein** ziemlich anstrengenden Reise - wir kamen relativ spät zum Bus und ich musste mich zu einem and**en Mitfahr** dazusetzen. Ein Bussitz für eine P**son wird grundsätzlich mit mindestens zwei Erwachsenen besetzt und da ich spät** kam, bekam ich die "äuß**e" Hälfte, was zur Folge hatte, dass die linke Körp**hälfte ständig im le**en schwebte und die and**e Hälfte nach etwa ...

... plants such as Pitaya and maracuya, which provide a little extra money apart from coffee production alone. All the coffee is fair trade and is the major source of income.
We stayed with our guides family in a little dirt floored hut.If we were looking for triple tall, non-fat caramel machiatos, sans-whip.. this was not the place to come. I felt good about our choice of acomodation since ...

Hi all! Little overdue for updates!

From Granada I headed up to the coffee capital of Nicaragua, Matagalpa. After a quick transfer in Managua, Matagalpa was the destination. Something remarkable was the landscape coming into Matagalpa: simply stunning. Beautiful rolling hills as green as you could imagine (though heavily deforested) stretched out as far as the eye could see.

Matagalpa was welcomingly interesting. Set in the midst of these beautiful green hills was rather ...

After not eating for two days we arrived off the bus feeling pretty **** as we had been mugged on the way there. My fault really our bags we are the back of the bus and some sellers wanted to get on the back to sell stuff. I got up to open the back door and then it went crazy as two guys came storming through the bus one gets behind me the other infront and goes to grab my little backpack. I have my eyes on our big bags and my small bags and the guy behind me ...

Killing time in Matagalpa waiting for this week to be over....Semana Santa is in full swing tomorrow with most everything shut down, including most bus service. Busses will run again this weekend but everyone says they are so packed it is almost impossible to get around. So our plans of leaving on Friday may have to be postponed untill monday. There is a one day assembly on Sunday, so we may try to get to it. Matagalpa is not a bad place to be ...

We are in the coffee capital of Nicaragua. Coming into the city I saw about 4 coffee plants each with bags of coffee piled high. Because of this the coffee here is really good and cheap, with a cappuccino costing about .75....enough starbucks already! We plan to go into the mountains this week and tour a coffee plantation. I'm not sure if it is because of Semana Santa week or if it is every ...

The girls and I made our way to the town of Matagalpa in the mountains and Vince showed a couple of hours later, full of stories. He´s aready talking about his trip back, looking forward to it. I´ll try to get him to start blogging so he can share. Will send another blog tomorrow, this is just a short one to let you all know that Vince made it here...... over 4,000 miles and 6 countries on his bike!

... dozens of people selling beer out of carts (oooh) and stages being set up. Most places in town were pretty full but along with my new australian friend we managed to find a clean-ish place and set off to explore and drink the first of many many (many) toñas. I´m nothing if not dedicated to supporting the local economy. This party is on every 14th February, and ...

Again, we take the ferry to San Jorge. From San Jorge we drive over Rivas to

Managua. The map pin goes straight from Ometepe to Jinotega, but of course we went all the

way back via San Jorge, Rivas, Managua and from Managua we drive via

Tipitapa to Jinotega.

We want to explore the beautiful countryside between the coffee towns of ...

... Süssigkeitenbestand ein und die Super-Duper-Filmenacht konnte starten. Doch allzu viel Rumgegammle ist wohl für uns beide nichts und so starteten wir schon am folgenden Morgen die nächste kleine Wanderung. Diesmal nur eine Tagestour und self-guided, d.h. wir kauften eine kleine Karte mit Wegbeschreibung von einer sozialen Einrichtung und los gings in die Berge. Dort war es superschön, wir kamen an unzähligen ...