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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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Jolly Rogers
Jolly Rogers
We have landed, pilliaged, but not raped San Juan del Sur.
Today we attempted to surf. We hooked up with a surfing local named Mope who owns his own shop. After paying the fee we loaded up in his truck and proceeded to drive all over town to pick up several locals who wanted to chill at the beach. We picked up a German lady Katalina (Lisa's teacher), a friend of Katalina's, her husband, her 2 year old son, her 100 pound wolf dog, and finally on the way out of town a 8 year old kid. It was awesome. Most people rode in the back of the truck including the dog [View Full Entry]

Valentin and Lisa - Lisa Dawes | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 21st 2009 | 94 Views | [diary=438526]


Lisa and fruta pintalla
Lisa and fruta pintalla
An amazing Nicaraguan fruit that looks like seafood.
Friends and family, This is Valentin and Lisa writing the La Estrella hostel in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. This has been the most pleasant and easily most relaxed pueblo we have visited thus far. Our hostel, La Estrella, is located a comfy 100ft from the beach and has everything we need, a pet dog, a turtle who enjoys bananas, four walls and a balcony with an ocean view. Getting here involved a series of buses and taxis from San Jose, a lenghty border crossing in Nicaragua, and a night in a town called Rivas, near the southern Pacific coast of [View Full Entry]

Valentin and Lisa - Lisa Dawes | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 18th 2009 | 105 Views | [diary=437727]

San Juan Sunset
Cordobas, Lisa and a Macua
Val enjoys some Flor de Cana

Por fin!! After about two months of orientation and language school we are finally here in our house in Managua! It is VERY exciting! We arrived last Sunday morning and have spent the week setting up the house and getting to know the different projects Cantera has. It has been very exciting but exhausting at the same time. Cantera has a great variety of projects located all through-out the city and in surrounding towns and rural communities. Right now there are about 10 different projects in which I would love to work! We are hoping to have a better idea of [View Full Entry]

coconita - Courtney | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 13th 2009 | 54 Views | [diary=436295]


The next day we woke up, ate breakfast, packed up our things and were off to catch a bus to San Juan Del Sur. We caught one bus to Rivas and then a second to San Juan. A few hours in total. Once we arrived in San Juan, we searched out a few different hotels/hostels and decided on one called Hotel Azul. It was really nice. It was a little more pricey but the rooms were clean, had A/C and would fit 3 of us in one room and 2 in the other, until the last night when Kallie left (she [View Full Entry]

swills82 - Swills | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 13th 2009 | 195 Views | [diary=436080]

Flor de Cana
Heading to the Beach to Surf!
The Surfing Beach

What’s the Purpose? Hello! My name is Liisa. I recently graduated from Winthrop with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology, concentrating in Criminology. I also minored in Spanish. In January, I will be traveling with another recent graduate, Amber, to Nicaragua. The purpose of our trip will be to study two rural communities and gather data in order to assess what is needed and what is available for economic development. We will be living in Matagalpa, a larger city and then once a week traveling to these two towns to stay for two or three days. La Rocha and Tierra Blanca are [View Full Entry]

liisab - LiisaB | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 11th 2009 | 36 Views | [diary=435584]


Churches
Churches
During my morning walk with Sarah
Day 2 started with Sarah and I waking up slightly earlier than the other girls and going for a walk down to the water. It wasn't a long walk and there wasn't much to see down there. There was a bit of a beach but nothing exciting. We could tell from our half hour walk though, that it was going to be a HOT day! After breakfast at the hotel, we walked down to the Bearded Monkey where we had signed up for a day trip to The Monkey Hut. On our walk we ran into a local parade in early [View Full Entry]

swills82 - Swills | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 13th 2009 | 111 Views | [diary=436065]

Walk to the Beach
Local Parade
The Monkey Hut

Tortugas!
Tortugas!
These were our new friends in the fountain at the hotel
It took us about 6 hours to get to Managua - the capital of Nicaragua. We were in a nice air conditioned bus though with a bathroom, so the time wasn't so bad. Once in Managua, we took a taxi to a bus station and then caught a bus to Granada. Travelers be warned: locals see white skin and assume this means we're rich and they can rip us off. On multiple occasions during this trip, taxi drivers, bus drivers, etc. tried to charge us extra for transport. The smartest thing is to ask the locals who are also on the [View Full Entry]

swills82 - Swills | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 12th 2009 | 105 Views | [diary=435981]

Hotel Pool
Church
Climbing the Stairs

Col. Sandino
Col. Sandino
this town is full of beautiful murals, notice where Col. Sandino has placed his boot.... for all the US has done here (they sent Marines here for the expressed purpose of killing him) i can´t say i b... [more]
It seems like everyone in this town has a war story. I´m in the northern city of Leon, waylaid here for a week while I wait out a flat spell of no waves. To make a long story short, I fell in with a rowdy crowd of Australians back in Popoyo and we were on our way to El Salvador when we stopped over here in Leon for the weekend. However, the modern miracle of internet surf forecasting told me there would be no swell til next weekend, and so Í´ve decided to stay here and enroll in language school for [View Full Entry]

forrestfire - Ryan Brinkworth | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 5th 2009 | 139 Views | [diary=433061]

another amazing mural...
my teacher
on the roof...

Welcome to Nicaragua!
Welcome to Nicaragua!
Just as we crossed the border from Honduras to Nicaragua.
Well, we had an unexpected vacation from school. We had one case of H1N1 at school and they closed in down to be safe and clean the whole school. This meant added time on ou r already existing break for the long weekend of Honduras independence day. Sarah K., Pam, and I were already going to travel to Nicaragua but we decided to go early so that Libby and Kallie could come too, as they have plans for Roatan on the weekend. We decided to come here Sunday and then leave Friday. I will then catch a ride with Jimmy and [View Full Entry]

swills82 - Swills | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 7th 2009 | 98 Views | [diary=434611]


Max the Monkey
Max the Monkey
this poor guy spends his whole life tied up to a tree as a pet, but the other day he escaped! I was sitting on the beach with some friends when all of a sudden he came and jumped in my lap!
So you might be wondering what you might expect to see while walking down the street in Nicaragua, or while sitting back on your porch, or while kickin it on the beach.. here´s a few things i´ve seen along the way... [View Full Entry]

forrestfire - Ryan Brinkworth | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 2nd 2009 | 147 Views | [diary=433094]

The Tona Virgin
Che Lives!
el cochino