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a kitchen in El Ayote  
   

a kitchen in El Ayote

our hostess (a friend of Juliana) fed us for the 2 days we were in Ayote. When we first passed through the narrow allyway between to houses and took a seat, I thought we were in a barn. The floor was dirt, the roof a tarp, and there were only three walls: leaving one side open for the chicekns and pigs to roam in and out. Later I realised that this was in fact the family´s living and dining-room. This is the kitchen, adjoining...
Relative Concepts: "City", Time, "Good Coffee", "I don´t have any shoes"!

May 15th 2006
Since the last journal entry concerning Puerto Cabesas, we then proceeded to travel to a small town called El Ayote. Actually, I don´t even know that Ayote should qualify as a "town": it´s a tiny, hole-in-the-wall, out-of-the-way place in the middle of the mountains in Nicaragua´s Southern Atlantic Region (RAAS). It consists of a few muddy roads, lined with sagging little buildings that look li ... read more
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Nicaraguan Flag 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... ... read more
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