Blogs from Capital Region, Nicaragua, Central America Caribbean - page 2

Willkommen in Nicaragua, willkommen im Paradies! Zugegeben, viel habe ich ja noch nicht gesehen... aber die Rahmenbedingungen sind schon mal super: Anthony (mein Host) ist super umgänglich, das Anwesen ein tropischer Traumgarten, mein Bungalow geräumig und gemütlich, Lola (die Hündin) liebt mich jetzt schon und es gibt viel zu tun. Wir haben heute angefangen die zwei Monate zu durchzuplanen und haben seitenweise Notizen gemacht zu kleinen Projekten die rund um Haus und Garten zu erledigen sind, neben den täglichen Yoga-Einheiten und den Workshops am Wochenende, für die wir ziemlich viel unterwegs sein werden - unter anderem 1 Woche auf url=https://www.google.com.ni/search?q=ometepe+nicaragua&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQl9Sd6cHYAhVC7CYKHQpsAicQ_AUICigB&biw=1440&bih=736&dpr=2Ometepe, worauf ich schon sehr gespannt bin... Anthony ist für einen Latino erstaunl... read more

Everything I read prior to going to Nicaragua said to skip Managua. Our original plan had us spending the night at the Hotel Casa Real and spend a few hours checking out the nearby Cathedral before heading off to León by early afternoon. Although we spent the night in San Salvador, we mostly stuck to that plan. We arrived at the airport around 9:30am and took a hotel shuttle to the Casa Real. They provided us some breakfast and had agreed to hold our bags while we explored a little bit of the area nearby. With the old cathedral of Managua destroyed in 1972, it took nearly 20 years for a new cathedral to be built. The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception was built in 1991, and is often simply called the new cathedral by ... read more

First day, waiting for build to begin!... read more

So my Central American adventure continued, after a fun week in Crica I got on a plane and headed north over the boarder to Nicaragua (I could have just stayed on the rafting river) for the next part of my exciting trip. As a lapsed scientist I decided as I’m taking some time off it might be fun to try and do something a bit scientific again and thus I found myself heading off for two weeks work on a Nicaraguan volcano. I’d found a charity called Earthwatch.org who run many different trips where you can help out with various scientific research projects and a project on the Masaya volcano caught my eye, a chance to get up close and personal with a bit of lava, what is not to like? So the plan was, get ... read more

Geo: 12.8654, -85.2072Blogging time has been limited, in part because of limited wifi and in part due to a lack of writing time. Our first day has given us a small glimpse of Nicaragua. The city of Managua has been noted as one of the more dangerous areas and not a real tourist destination. With that said, we left the city on the first bus we could. Off to Masaya we headed, in search of our first volcano. A city famous for its artisan market, we stopped to check out the city. The market is housed within the ancient walls of an old fort whose stone walls protected the people. small in comparison to other Mercado's, it held the crafts of local artists as well as mass produced tourist items. The hand crafted item that stood ... read more

Following the hustle and bustle of Granada we decided to head out to Laguna de Apoyo which is a crater lake just outside to city. It's a beautiful spot to take a break for a couple days from the chaos of Managua or Granada. There isn't much in the way of transportation to get there. You could take a bus to Masaya and catch one of the two daily buses that head to the lake, or one of the couple shuttles/tours that go directly from Granada (there must be shuttles/tours from Managua but that wasn't the direction of our travel so we didn't look into it). We opted to take the afternoon shuttle out, which conveniently departed from our hostel, so we could do a little more running around in town. When we arrived it was ... read more