Photos from Moropoto, Northern Highlands, Nicaragua, Central America Caribbean - page 6

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carrying the sacks to the 100% organic side to further dry his coffee

lenin buys potatoes

weighing hugo's 6 sacks of coffee

what looks like sand is really millions of pouds of cofee drying

and we went to Pali to buy groceries

hugo drove me and lenin and karen to the coffee co-op in yalacaguina

he took us out for pop afterward

Hugo with his community cooperativa, San Antonio

Hugo explaining the benefits that Prodecoop provides

100% organic

prodecoop sign

my sandanista family

27 in Nicaragua

don hugo noting how much coffee the pickers picked

me and don sabino and his two boys eliseo and ezequiel

six buckets of ripe coffee berries

neighbors who picked coffee this morning

100 pound sacks of coffee berries

sorting the picked coffee berries

coffee nursury of new plants

karen modeling the moto that lenin is going to buy

picking coffee

hauling coffee out of the forest

karen taking a break on her father's coffee farm, Rodeo

lenin among the trees that give you shade grown coffee

coffee trees

banana trees

we arrive! me amid the coffee

photo break

i look pinker because of my chela skin, but he is flushed, too!

karen and lenin on our way up to Rodeo, karen's father's coffee farm

as you peel away the petals, tiny yellow baby bananas are revealed, which will grow into full size bananas

this is the flower of the banana tree

and took a break for some more photos

we went exploring the rest of the forest

that is now connected to the house for electricity

barbed wire...

latrine that i use

chema painting, helped by geovani, and watched by febe, daughter of the pastor

Iglesia Santa Fe Asambles de Dios Moropoto

lenin and the american flag

it was so much warmer underground than outside by the lake

and these waterfall thingees

there are all kinds of weird formations, like these straws

as well as the Show Me State

since missouri is the cave state and all

the tour is cool

ps no we did not get married at Bridal Cave

apparently the osage used it for weddings... and now so do a lot of people

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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 fir...more history

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