Grenada, San Juan Del Sur and Sunday Funday. Two things we liked and one we really didn’t. Grenada was ok, with it’s colonial architecture and beach area, however there is no way I would ever get into the water in Lake Nicaragua, and the city was dirty, seedy and congested. San Juan Del Sur however […]
We got out of San Juan Del Sur and the Naked Tiger Hostel, to go find some activities on Ometepe Island a short distance away. Ometepe is a Nahuatl words “ome” (two) and “tepetl” (mountain), meaning two mountains. They are actually two two volcanoes, Volcán Concepción and Volcán Maderas. The island is also in the middle of Lake Nicaragua, a freshwater lake. […]
With a broken jeep, we headed out of expensive Costa Rica for inexpensive Nicaragua. We figured getting our jeep fixed, would be cheaper in Nicaragua and the trip from Arenal to the Peñas Blancas Border crossing between Nicaragua and Costa Rica was a breeze. Once getting to the border there are few things you need to […]
We left Chiltepe for Grenada in the early afternoon and passed the outskirts of Managua. We have heard bad things about Managua and had little desire to hang around and see if they were correct. Taking the Masaya highway around Managua, we drove down a road with huge metal-yellow trees. I think it’s a Sandinista thing with Daniel […]