Blogs from Mercado National ds Artesanias, Masaya, Capital Region, Nicaragua, Central America Caribbean

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Hi everyone, I have been on the go for the last three days. Every night a different city. After I left Granada I went to Masaya because I knew I could get a direct bus from there to Matagalpa. It turned out to be a very interesting city and visit. In Masaya they are famous for a wonderful market for all sorts of Nicaraguan made things. There were boots, bags, clothes, wood art, guitars, scarves and every other bauble I have seen in all the other places. This market is very high end and for the tourists who are bussed in. I was sitting in an area watching kids practicing for a dance performance and who should show up but my Japonese friend, Cuto (actually she is Koro, but the spanish translation sounds to me like ... read more


B is a new travler I've been hanging with, he just finished working in the Peace Corp for 2 years in the Oso Pennesila in C.R. He and I travled to Masaya market to buy some art work. I found a stunning painting of a Nica girl gripping onto Barbed wire with the Volcano in the background, I felt the artist wanted to depict entrapment and limited exhistance lack of freedom to move forward and too far from the native rural past to turn back, I felt a strong sence of dispair in her eyes....bla bla juxaposition...bla bla.... read more
The Artist's Workshop




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