Beach sights in Isla De Ometepe

1. Moyogalpa

   • Isla De Ometepe, Nicaragua
   • Sights › Beach

   Not just the ferry terminal for hourly boats from the mainland, Moyogalpa is the nerve center for Ometepe's nascent tourist industry, with several hotels and restaurants, and the fastest Internet on the island. It's also home base to most of the island's tour companies, and base camp for the climb up Volcán Concepción.

   Moyogalpa is renowned for its animated fiestas patronales (Patron Saint's festival) in late July each year. Celebrations are famous for the Baile de las Inditas, a dance which celebrates both Spanish and indigenous culture, as well as several ceremonies timed with the solar calendar that have nothing at all to do with Catholicism. Patron Santa Ana leads a…

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