Mombacho Volcano

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Well, after meeting back up with Buber at the Bearder Monkey, Jordan and I decided that we would join him on what we thought would be a fun and exciting volcano trek. Now, perhaps I was being a little naive, but I was picturing your typical, awesome lava flowing volcano so some people may not share my disapointment with the climb. The good news was that instead of taking a $20 tour up the 'volcano', we did it on our own and the total trek ended up costing about 6 dollars. All you have to do is take a chicken bus, ask them to drop you off near Mombacho (which they pretty much know anyway cause we're white), and then follow the hill up. Starting out we imagined a nice little jaunt up a hill (again being perhaps a little naive) only for it to turn into quite the trek. I was sweating, Jordan was sweating, and hte other four guys were kicking our asses. I guess I am out of shape. In any case we covered the 5km, 1000m climb in a hour even though the lady at the booth said it was going to take 2.5. While there was a couple holes with steam coming out of them at the top, and a great view of Granada and the lake, it was basically just a mountain...Anyway, I am just figuring out what I am going to do next...maybe fly to the COrn Islands or something, or volunteer here for a week...not sure.

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Photos

Mombacho
Final hours with hair...

From the Top
Granada and the Lake

Granada
From Granada

good bye hair
it is just too damn hot...