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Background: The Pacific Coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the first half of the 19th century, but gradually ceded control of the region in subsequent decades. Violent opposition to governmental manipulation and corruption spread to all classes by 1978 and resulted in a short-lived civil war that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power in 1979. Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s. Free elections in 1990, 1996, and again in 2001 saw the Sandinistas defeated. The country has slowly rebuilt its economy during the 1990s, but was hard hit by Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

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By KTreehugger
June 19th 2008

No McConaughey Sightings...yet

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I'm now in San Juan del Sur, and I've been here since Sunday afternoon. We (me, those three girls from California, another girl from Arizona and one guy from California) made our way to the converted school bus from Granada to Rivas. We all knew it was destined to be a great trip when it started off with the sight of two horses mating on the side of the road and then getting a flat tire. With so many of us traveling together, when we got to Rivas, we split up into two taxis to get to San Juan del Sur. [View Full Entry]

By Sheeptours
June 3rd 2008

Stopping for a drink in San Juan del Sur

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Post tropical storm

Day 217: Muchos Travelling I wasn't sure how far I'd get today. In the absence of direct buses to Granada from Monteverde (apart from the uber-expensive tourist shuttles that is), my journey was invariably going to involve a lot of waiting around at stops and terminals and slow transport on the public buses that would certainly pick up anyone and everyone they encountered along the way. First journey would take me only as far as the panamerican highway, about sixty kilometres away. Although this doesn't sound far, when you're on heavily pot-holed dirt roads in a rickety old bus overlooking [View Full Entry]

By Samantha jo
May 31st 2008

First Week

Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » San Juan Del Sur

it has been a trip here. the drive from the airport in managua to the town of san juan del sur is crazy. the roads are terrible. it took about two and a half hours. at some points the driver would have to almost come to a stop just to drive over some bumps and other times he would drive super fast driving really close to the cars driving in the other direction. the town is very nice. it is a surfing and fishing village that seems to be catered around tourists. there are many dogs and cats wandering the roads [View Full Entry]

By newplacestogo
May 29th 2008

It's My First Tropical Storm!

Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » San Juan Del Sur

Well...I know I haven't written in a short while, in part because the last few days haven't been all that interesting, at least to read about. I also am at a public internet source, so I'm paying to write this so it really will be short. Anyway, here is the quick recap... Since I last wrote you, I made it to the small town of San Juan de Oriente, to talk with some people on pottery. I brought along a bi-lingual friend who translated and the long and short is I have at least one contact for some interesting items to [View Full Entry]

By NickiG
May 29th 2008

Tropical Storms at a surf resort

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I arrived in San Juan Del Sur after a long bus journey from Monteverde via a hot a rather scummy town called Rivas. I had left at 6am and then spent 8am til 11:30am sat on the side of the motorway waiting for my bus to the Nicaraguan border. I had various amusing conversations with locals while I was waiting which helped to pass the time! Most of them looked at me funny as I was in the middle of nowhere alone with huge bags waiting for 3 hours for a bus - i suppose I would have done the same [View Full Entry]

By BGC
May 27th 2008

Shadiness and rain

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laguna de apoyo

Nicaragua was the country I looked forward to visiting the most while planning this trip, and a few hassles aside it was a realy great place. We probably could have given it some more time, but with only five days left to be back in Costa Rica we decided to hit the beach there for a bit. After writing the last entry we decided to tour around the city of Granada for a bit while the sun was lowering in the sky. Across from the central park there was a tractor pulling a series of trolley carts and for 35 cents [View Full Entry]

By hughesy78
May 12th 2008

Glory Glory Man Utd

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Firstly, i would like to publicly congratulate the might Manchester United FC for becoming this season champions. I doubt they have time to read our blog due celebrating but i feel it´s necessary to mention. Following Nicks last blog, despite it only being a couple of days passing, i thought i would give you all a few more details. The fact that there is air con in the internet cafe is NOT the reason! Nicks blog came after a hard couple of weeks, of which the hardest factor being the heat. Nicaragua is without a doubt the hottest country i have [View Full Entry]

By hughesy78
May 9th 2008

Interesting

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Rio Dulce
On the way down the river, to the disastrous wakeboarding adventure on the lake....

Well, we made it to Nicaragua. Leftie central. About 9 buses, 2 boats, 2 countries bad bad BAD accomoations, and now the beach. Result. Sort of.... we came here instead of El Salvador, via Copan Ruinas in Honduras, with the intention of going back through El Salvador. I have to say, 15$ to get into Copan ruins, and i was muchly underwhelmed, considering the bigger and more atmospheric ones in Mexico and Gaute were abot half the price and twice the size. Strange really. the town was really nice though, quiant and really really small..the smallest parque central i have seen [View Full Entry]

By TravelinTim
April 20th 2008

Surfing and partying in Nicaragua

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I decided to go to Nicaragua. The two french guys, Cochisse and Max, and the Spaniard, Cesar, were leaving Santa Teresa Wednesday morning for the ferry to Puntarenas and offered me a ride. I decided to go with them, but went to Casa Zen before leaving to use the internet and lost track of time. When I realized it was getting late, I started running back to the hostel and ran into the guys driving away. I was really lucky to catch them. They took me back to the hostel, I grabbed my stuff and hopped in the little rental car. [View Full Entry]

By rayanhindi
April 15th 2008

nicaraguense

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san juan del sur, surf village. sick as hell for two days! [View Full Entry]

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