Lorena, myself, and my folks went to Nicaragua for the first time----I say first time because we will definitely go again-----in January 2006. What a great country! We didn't cover a lot of ground on this trip, but we experienced and saw so much. We flew in to Managua where we spent the first night before hiring a cab to Granada the next morning. We then stayed a few days there and made trips to Volcan Mombacho, Catarina, Volcan Masaya, and Masaya itself before Lorena and I headed south to San Juan del Sur and a couple of days at Playa El Coco. From there, it was on to Rivas/San Jorge and the ferry to Isla de Ometepe and finally back to Granada to reunite with the folks for a few more days before heading
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