Blogs from Estelí, Northern Highlands, Nicaragua, Central America Caribbean - page 4

things i love... The Green Market in Estelí on Friday mornings. It is the best place for breakfast. I had a bag of fruit. A bag of mixed potato-malanga-banana chips with salad and salsa. And two papusas, or little buns filled with fried cheese and chicken that rock my world with salad and salsa. And I bought vegetables for Moncha. Oh, and I had a queso tamale, too. This internet place next to the park and the boy who works here. He is cute and nice and plays good music. Carne asada in the park. Meat in general. Street food. Love it. Miss it. Practically all I survived on in the China. Estelí. It is still my city. Yeah, Somoto is there. But Estelí is where it´s at. Bold Kreative Photography. http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=49262634134 Things I don´t love... ... read more

Exhausted. Monday went to the Cañon de Somoto with Lenin and the youngest cousin. That was a long day, though definitely an adventure! We went to the top part of the cañon.... or the upper part of the river. Got out of the cab, hiked for a while, came to a fork in the path, chose one at random, and came upon a house. Ended up talking with the old man about the canyon and how many gringos pass by. They offered us food! Fresh tortillas, BLACK beans, and hardboiled eggs. It was awesome. And then he said he would guide us down to the canyon. So we had a guide. Not gonna lie, though, I was frustrated for a good part of the morning. The guide and the boys just wanted to hurry the hell ... read more

So New Year´s has been and gone celebrated in San Pedro la Laguna in Guatemala. It was a night of rum and fireworks, and a scant regard for any kind of health and safety!!! San Pedro itself is another cool little village on Lake Atitlan, not much to do apart from enjoy the scenery and have a drink or 3, but that suiuted us fine. New year itself was a good laugh, we met up with some fellow travelling folk (one of whom was a hippie, Australian musician called Gu, who Ben found himself liking in spite of himself) and went to one of the bars in the town, after much rum ( for the both of us) and a few too many beers new year was ushered in with fireworks set off from a disturbingly ... read more

hi everyone! We have just left Esteli and are now in Managua getting ready for the trip home in the morning. We spent a very interesting 3 days staying in a home up in the mountains of Nicaragua. The people were fantastic as usual but what a way to live. It started with us not wnating to pay $200 US to get to our reserved home call Posada La Perla so we took the chicken bus. It went up and up from essentially sea level to 5,000 feet. We were in an old schol bus made in Missassagua (Blue Bird( AND WE STOPEED EVERY kM. It took almost 2 hrs to climb into the mountains. As it turns out the man we spoke with in Esteli was to be our guide and later we found out ... read more

Whilst ensconced in Spanish classes in Esteli we stayed with a family on what was a pseudo homestay. Pseudo in the sense that Ivania, the mother of the household, was quietly building her very own little hotel empire. Consequently, we were joined at our digs by two other foreign characters. Kenny, a rather boring fifty plus save-the-world obsessive from Florida (sorry Kenny you’re a nice guy but one more riveting lunch time exchange over tortillas and gallopinto would be one more far too many). And, Joe (Joseph) a rather interestingly mannered lad from Upstate New York who we first had down as an axe murderer but turned out to be quite a fascinating individual. Ivania and company were certainly more than a little removed from our host family in Sabana Grande. Removed mostly in terms of ... read more