Hotel Regis Masaya

... with an inch to spare, and generally making a mess at trying to go fast. At one point, as we were driving on the shoulder, the inequity between the road and the grass became too much, and we got slightly stuck. About half the people had to get off, and the minibus went backwards and forwards multiple times before it managed to recover it´s place on the road. <br><br>After the footprints, we headed down ...

... carry them with us. The driver then got angry with Alan because he thought he was lying to him about having a bank card but Al had not known I had mine. They then pointed a knife at me and demanded my pin number. Helplessly I had to give it to them. They also found the 20 dollars in my wallet that I had in there and my memory stick. <br><br>When they checked Al´s pockets again they found the camera and my phone. They asked him if the phone worked but ...

... was no problem really, because lets face it - you don't necessarily have to be faster than the bull, just the person next to you, and the Nicas aren't about to win any Olympic sprinting medals any time soon.<br><br>Frankly, I would say that any fatalaties or other serious injuries will have been the result of the crazy displays of bravado/cruelty put on by the locals. A lot of the time the festival was less running-with-the-bulls and more running-up-behind-the-bulls-and ...

... Park. It is a very well maintained park. It is located at one side of the highway to Managua. After paying the entrance, we headed to the volcano. It is about 5 miles away, going on a paved road. The parking lot is right next to the crater. The crater is huge and since it's an active volcano, there is a lot of smoke and gases coming out of it. There is a mound with a big cross on top. The story goes that when the Spaniard invasion, a catholic priest thought ...

... because she mentioned that there was a<br><br>course on indigenous natural medicine at the university in Masaya,<br><br>the next day - so Claire, the sole other intern (we are guinea pigs for FSD's new program here.. YAY.) and I agreed to go with her<br> I woke up bright and early to catch the 5am bus - turns out Claire couldn't go, because her host mom's pregnant friend had to go to the hospital for an emergency check up (high ...

... I talked to on the plane on the way<br>here was surfing for eight days, so it really puts how much longer I<br>have here into perspective. I definitely miss the United States though!<br><br>Saturday I wanted to go to a funeral of my homestay mom´s sister in<br>law, because I heard funerals were so different here, but my friends in<br>the city really wanted to go to Coyotepe, which is a ¨Castillo¨ on top<br>of a mountain near here. I forgot to ...

... into the language to make a<br>real difference soon enough. Most of my problem is the battering<br>of hundreds of different new words my head must fliter through now.<br>I´ve had a lecture on the history of Nicaragua that lasted two and a<br>half hours and I understood 60% of it, haha. Over the next few days I<br>will be introduced with my homestay family, and should be living with<br>them by Thursday. <br>

The girls and I made it to Granada, but vince is still on his way, stuck on the baja peninsula mexico due to paperwork mix ups.....oh well we have enough time here to not have to worry about a schedule. He hopes to make it here by early next week. We may start a Spanish school without him, trying to decide between a ...

... field station and spanish school to see these cichlids found no where else in the world. So now I´m learning how to read scientific fisheries papers and reviewing them in spanish setting up standardized methodologies to follow in order to get accurate relative abundance surveys through scuba diving and snorkeling. I´m finding that my spanish is greatly imporving with out me even really noticing that I can understand what people ...

... Howler apen. We zetten ons op onze hurken en blijven zo een 10-tal minuten geruisloos zitten in volle bewondering. <br><br>Wat verder komen we op een plek vanwaar we een fantastisch uitzicht hebben over het Nicaragua Meer (Lago Cocibolca), Las Isletas en Granada. Apen spotten en een prachtig uitzicht: deze wandeling kan alvast niet meer stuk!<br><br><br><br><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><br><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><br><br>