http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Estel-/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Nicaragua , Estel en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:46:38 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:46:38 BST I arrived to Esteli Nicaragua yesterday in the early afternoon. After a few quick bus rides I found myself in the busteling city that lies just along the PanAm. It is a great town to explore the streets are narrow and filled with color of fruit stands clothes for sale and brightly painted tiendas of every kind. As I walked through the streets I soon came to the cathedral. It caught me off guard http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Estel-/blog-303373.html LEONIt seemed liked Id changed worlds completely when I left the tranquil beauty of La Moskitia outlined in my last blog and after spending more than a day and a half on buses arrived in the groovy Spanish colonial city of Leon the 2nd largest city in Nicaragua. It wasnt just that Id gone from primary rainforest to a decent sized city but when I was out in Moskitia there were hardly any ot http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Estel-/blog-294051.html After passing a full day in Tegusigalpa and not finding much to do we decided that we should make our way to Nicaragua therefore we would have additional time to do cool stuff... when we find it. From Tegusigalpa we took a bus to Cholutecha and then continued on the same bus to San Marcos de Colon. This bus ride which was supposed to be easy turned out to be the longest craziest thing ever. S http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Estel-/blog-288187.html We departed Granada and said goodbye to Veronica and Achim and wished them well on their trip back to Europe after traveling all over the world for nine months. It was hard to say goodbye as we had experienced so much together in such a short amount of time and not knowing when we would see each other again but they were extremely tired from such a long trip and looking forward to going home and http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Estel-/blog-280588.html It took us a day and half to reach the dusty mountain town and former Sandanista stronghold of Estel Nicaragua.Estel was at the violent front lines of the war for independence in the late 70s and fierce patriotism still permeates the city.Once there we realized we had brought more than memories from Honduras... we spent most of the next four days in close proximity to our private bathroom.When http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Estel-/blog-254806.html