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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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travelingangela - angela | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 20th 2009 | 8 Views | [diary=454552]


Granada
Granada
Cool little town in Nicaragua, some colonial style buildings. We liked Guatemala´s Antigua a little better.
Hello, There are 3 videos above. Just hit play and it will run through them all. The break dancing was very impressive and our best videos didn´t turn out in the lighting...some of which included cartwheels and various flip tricks with the little kid holding onto a bigger kid´s stomach upside down. The little kid had his own moves as well! We took a bus from Antigua to Managua and arrived at night. As I said, Guate City was sketchy and so is Managua. All the big cities down here are while the more rural areas are not. As soon as [View Full Entry]

touring - Noam's Chompskies | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 21st 2009 | 44 Views | [diary=453160]

Granada
on the way to Isla de Ometepe
Isla de Ometepe

This blog is so late. Supposed to post this August 20 of this year urghh. I'm back in the USA safe and sound :). But the memories are fresh, so i have to look back and write about what happened during my short solo backpacking trip. The girl that I was supposed to meet in Nicaragua got robbed in Managua days before I left LA for Costa Rica. One morning I suddenly found myself walking out of Gaudy's hostel in San Jose, CR and walking all the way to the Tica bus station. And then boom! I bought my bus ticket. [View Full Entry]

travelingangela - angela | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 20th 2009 | 11 Views | [diary=452988]


Always have been a morning person. The day before yesterday I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Or, as they say in the Spanish, I woke up on my left foot. I alternately hated everything. I hated that the two boys in the house never haul water, and I hated waiting in line to haul water. I hated that Lenin got to drink coffee and eat breakfast while I drank coffee, watching the damn pump, so I would know when it was my turn to fill the buckets for my house, and I had to keep eating and [View Full Entry]

mbaade - molly baade | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 13th 2009 | 35 Views | [diary=452891]


Oh what a long, strange, trip it´s been.... Just when you think you´re headed to Guatemala, you actually end up in Nicaragua again. When I initially left here in September, I knew I was leaving too soon, that I hadn´t hardly scraped the surface of what life in this land is like, but the beckon of the waves in El Salvador called me, and I let myself get carried away. Two months later, it comes to no surprise that I´m back here again. This time, instead sweating it out at the beach, I´m high in the cool mountains of Esteli, enjoying [View Full Entry]

forrestfire - Ryan Brinkworth | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 10th 2009 | 38 Views | [diary=447840]


Granada
Granada
Granada city
Hello all, When I first heard of Granada, I must at the same moment, thing about Granada in Spain. The city is very colourful and the streets are very clean. It’s easy to go around and enjoy a lemonade or just to grab a beer and stay outside, because it’s too damn hot! 3 days are totally enough to stay here. I went to Laguna de Apoyo, Pueblos Blañcos and Isletas. Besides you still have Granada itself to discover and it’s really nice. It makes me remember of Salvador or Manaus in Brazil. I always have a déjà vu feeling :-) [View Full Entry]

Alexandre Oliveira - Alexandre Oliveira | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 8th 2009 | 6 Views | [diary=451792]


Alright...so the day we left Ometepe it was a lame national holiday that no one celebrates and all of the transportation on and to and from the island was at the whim of the workers. So what should have takend only a few hours took from 11 am until 6:30 pm. I didn't want to stay at the same place Brandi and I stayed, because I didn't want to mess with the memory. So, we walked down the street to another hostel. We stayed in San Juan del Sur for about 3 nights. The first night we got something to eat [View Full Entry]

Shelbi - Shelbi Mayo | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 20th 2009 | 41 Views | [diary=453012]

Ometepe photos from Lucas
Ometepe photos from Lucas
Ometepe photos from Lucas

Vorerst....Fotos gibts spaeter weils gerade Probleme mit dem hinauflauden gibt. In Nicaragua waren wir bisher in 2 Staedten und haben danach ein bisschen Natur angeschaut. Zuerst sind wir, nach einem Hickhack mit Geldwechseln und Ein- und Ausreisegebuehr bezahlen, in Leon angekommen. Leon ist die Stadt, in der die Revolution in den 50ern angefangen hat und dementsprechend ist auch der Flair hier....riesige Gemaelde von Armeen, Schlachten und Revolutionsfuehrern an den Mauern und in der Uni und ueberall steht sowas wie "Fuer immer frei". Ueberhaupt ist das ganze Leben hier etwas lebendiger als [View Full Entry]

stuffo - Stefan Wach | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 3rd 2009 | 27 Views | [diary=450507]

Max beim Flirten in Leon
Laguna Apoyo
Wasserfall auf Isla Ometepe

Alright...so i´m trying to catch up on my blogs. I know i´m a little behind...currently I´m in Monteverde, Costa Rica...but I´m writing about Isle de Ometepe...which is about 4 towns back... I think this is the start of meeting some major weirdos.... you ready for the stories??? Cuz i´m about to start So...from Popoyo we got one of the guys who works at the hostel to drive us to the bus stop. We waited their longer that we should have for the bus to show up. It finally came and the off we were. The bus went to Rivas and from [View Full Entry]

Shelbi - Shelbi Mayo | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 18th 2009 | 62 Views | [diary=452819]

View from boat of Ometepe
Climbing La Concepcion
Climbing La Concepcion

Kikker
Kikker
(Kikkertuin in Monteverde)
Beste allemaal, Ondertussen is het alweer een weekje of 2/3 geleden dat er een teken van leven via deze website verzonden is, dus hier weer een beknopte update van de meest boeiende dingen die ik gedaan heb. Het zal vast weer een waslijst worden, maar veel dagen heb ik ook enkel op m'n luie reet gelegen . Costa Rica Monteverde In Monteverde ben ik maar 2 nachten en 1 dag gebleven, aangezien hier enkel een berg natuurparken waren en de grootste Canopy tour die er in Costa Rica is. Dit was dus ook de enigste reden dat ik er naartoe ging. [View Full Entry]

jornkoelma - Jorn Koelma | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 5th 2009 | 70 Views | [diary=449807]

Kikker 2
Kikker 3
Kikker 4


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