"Crossing the Nicaraguan border by boat, we arrived in San Carlos and had a great first impression of Nicaragua. San Carlos is a small fishing village that sits at the headwaters of ..."
"My Lying Planet guidebook had me trying to pot luck guess where the new (looks like its been there a while) King Qualtiy bus terminal was, it had moved 6 blocks east since an autho ..."
A travel blog entry from Managua by
kris
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"We speed off on Tuesday in our trusty catamaran to the mainland of Honduras leaving behind our first Canadian friends!! So sad! From there we jumped on a bus headed ..."
"Alex: Managua was just a one nighter to break up the trip to Isla de Ometepe - thank God! Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in CAm and you could tell. The countries we have ..."
A travel blog entry from Managua by
alexndean
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"We had another long travel day from the capital of Honduras, crossing the border, and arriving in Leon in the late afternoon, feeling it get progressively hotter the closer we got. ..."
A travel blog entry from Leon by
casey_matt
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"Leon is touted as a nice colonial town in Nicaragua. I see no reason to go to this town unless you are there to volcano board. The town is average at best but sledding ..."
"Up and out wandering around the market and past the hundreds of clothes and shoe shops. Is very cheap here but hope that Nicaragua is equally cheap. I manage to buy a p ..."
A travel blog entry from Leon by
emanddave
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"Julie Said: So, exchanging our surfboards for borders and our colones for cordoba, we crossed the border from Costa Rica to Nicaragua. Although prior reports suggested ..."
"Oh why oh why do I always insists of playing ring of fire.... Today I had a bit of a shocking hangover after arriving in Leon last night, when we arrived we walked into a hostel, M ..."
A travel blog entry from Leon by
hodge
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