Vigoron

Granada

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February 20th 2012
I set us up for the easiest transportation possible for our first entry into the country. Our hotel in Granada sent a man to come pick us up (for $40). The taxi ride from Managua to Granada was an experience not unlike a cab ride in Washington D.C. but swap the brownstones for small homes with dirt floors and corrugated steels for four walls and a roof oh and add potholes big enough to swallow a H ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Southern Pacific Coast » Granada

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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