The World's Hottest Chilli And Stalking A Jester

Trip Start Sep 29, 2007
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Friday, November 9, 2007

We left to Grenada by shuttle via a change at Managua university. We had to pay a fare for our backpacks though which was a bit of a rip job. The trip was easy and i fell asleep then woke up at Granada parque central  with no-one left on the bus. We checked into The Bearded Monkey Hostel where the house is nice and the travellers are a little too cool. Those are the backpackers who repeat the same stories over and over..... loudly, mostly Americans, try to out-do each other with spending as little as possible, scabbing as much as they can and living with as few clothes as possible, it's a little like a who is the most hippy? competition.  I had my good, lightweight mug stolen and pity the half loaf of bread left out on the bench.

We walked around town and the gate keeper at the church let us up to the bell towers to get a great view of the town. We tried some vigoron, a dish of yucca plant, coleslaw and pork rind with chilli wrapped in banana leaves Fire Breather
Fire Breather
 . Nadine was finishing off her plate when she dropped to the floor with tears after eating a blow your head off black chilli of some kind. The burning sensation lasted maybe 10 minutes..... crazy chilli! The street children here are hungry and will eat from the rubbish bins. We booked a night tour up volcano Masaya with a ranger where we will walk through lava tubes while sulfur gasses and thousands of bats swirl around our heads. We are definitely getting more adventurous as time goes on and tours get wackier.

We cabbed it out to a fiesta that wasn't really happening then back into town where three floodlights were swinging rays of light high up into the sky for the product launch of a flor-de-cana pre-mixed drink called Zircodebia. The organizers had pulled out all the stops by having the building painted, the best DJ in Central America play and hiring a troupe of clowns, jesters on unicycles, acrobats, hula-hoopers, jugglers, devil stick twirlers, fire breathers and spinners and harlequins walking on stilts. A whole circus themed in black and white was parading down the street while a ringmaster MC'd. The DJ was smooth and funky mixing his set up live, i recorded some of the tunage. So, i am back to stalking jesters again. I took some great shots of the troupe and promised to sent them some. The party went into the night and we retired back to the hostel of cool travellers who we found to be lounging around in hammocks talking bollocks some more.
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