Lago Nicaragua

Hacienda Merida

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May 17th 2006
With the hassle of the US visa done the real holiday could start! I went for a weeks visit to Isla de Ometepe to lay back at Hacienda Merida. Isla de Ometepe is a two-vulcano eight-shaped island in Lago Nicaragua, Central Americas bigest lake. Merida is the remotest place you can go to on the island and the Hacienda Merida, a ecological lodging project, was the right place for me to lay back at ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Southern Pacific Coast » Isla de Ometepe

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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... ... read more