Colonial Granada

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We caught the bus to Rivas and then onto Granada. On the way, I had the pleasure of sitting next to a guy who seemed to be preaching to me in spanish and liked to steal mangoes from the basket at the back of the bus. His name was ¨Bum¨.

We got to Granada and checked into Hotel el Club, which was pretty nice. We spent the afternoon exploring the town, which is the "oldest continually inhabited city in the Americas". It was founded in 1524 and it is full of old colonial style buildings and cathedrals. At the Iglesia de Merced, we paid $1 and climbed the narrow staircase up to the top of the bell tower to get a great view of the city.

We wandered down to the lake, stopping breifly to watch some Nicas play one of their favourite sports, softball. We bumped into Alex and Julie, the Americans who we had met on the bus ride on Ometepe. They were kind enough to give us their lonely planet guidebook, minus the Nicaragua section.

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