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Travel Itinerary: Nicaragua for Solo Travelers
Blog: Solo Traveler - 6 October 2010
Leave the news headlines of the 80s behind and discover Nicaragua today thanks to guest blogger Michael Hodson of Go, See, Write.
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Survivor ha comenzado<<<..>>>Survivor has begun!
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 18 September 2010
http://www.youtube.com/v/cqDUAVRbaM0?fs=1&hl=en_US Check out the intro for this season’s Survivor: Nicaragua. Mirá la introducción para esta temporada de Survivor: Nicaragua.
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Zompopos locos<<<..>>>Ants go bananas
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 10 September 2010
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The World of Filters
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 9 September 2010
By Dan Tulchin, KF12, Nicaragua Living in the developed world, we become accustomed to convenient filters that give us what we want, sidestepping some unpleasant truths. Meat is a delicious hamburger with fixings in a toasty bun, for example, and not the carcass at the neighborhood carnicería with flies swarming around it. Clean, potable water is just a slight turn of the wrist away while disposing of waste requires tossing garbage bags on the street or pushing down ever so firmly on the toilet lever.
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Shoeshine<<<—>>>Lustrado
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 24 August 2010
You can get a shoeshine in about any park in Nicaragua for pretty cheap. It’s better than paying $7 in an airport in the U.S. This one, in the park in Chinandega, Nicaragua, cost me C$10 (<$0.50). Before and after…. Podés conseguir que te lustren los zapatos bien barato en casi cualquier parque en Nicaragua. [...]
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Pupusas in Chinandega
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 21 August 2010
Pupusas are an original from El Salvador. However, since Chinandega, Nicaragua, located in the northwest part of the country, is somewhat close to El Salvador (by water or by land) there is a crossover of food. In the central park, you will find a ‘Pupusería’ where you can get these thick tortillas filled with pork, [...]
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Nicaraguan Batman<<<>>>Batman de Nicaragua
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 20 August 2010
¿Quien dice que solamente los EEUU tienen superheroes? (Bueno, perdón a Mexico – tienen el Chapulín Colorado y Nacho Libre). Nicaragua también tiene superheroes en entrenamiento. Corren las calles de Chichigalpa, Nicaragua en busca de…algo. Who says only the U.S. has superheroes? (Well, perdon me Mexico – you have the Chapulín Colorado and Nacho Libre). [...]
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Up the Creek...
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 20 August 2010
There's just something exotic about having to boat your way up river to reach a destination, where the highways are the waterways. I don't mean taking a boat as an alternative method like along the Nile, but instead as the only method, like in central Borneo.
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Survivor Nicaragua
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 19 August 2010
CBS has released a segment of “Survivor: Nicaragua”. The season officially begins on September 15, 2010 on CBS. This video plots two groups against each other in preparation for the season long activity. This is the first of two seasons of Survivor that have been planned to be filmed in Nicaragua. Should be very good [...]
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Laguna de Apoyo<<<<>>>>Apoyo Lagoon
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 19 August 2010
Here is a beautiful jewel that makes up part of the landscape so important for tourism in Nicaragua: the Apoyo Lagoon in Catarina, Masaya. The Glass family, hailing from New Milford, Connecticut, was taken aback by the beauty. The other picturess are on the highway back to Granada, Nicaragua, near Caña de Castilla in a [...]
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Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast – Sociolinguist’s Paradise, Electrician’s Nightmare
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 18 August 2010
By Dan Tulchin, KF12, Nicaragua What do Miskito, Rama, Garifuna, Spanish, Creole, and English have in common? Well, nothing really, besides the fact that you can hear all of them within a block in Bluefields, on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua – a place where international organizations and tourists rarely venture. While a number of these languages are, in essence, subsets of others, I am hard pressed to come up with another place of such linguistic variety (no, Times Square doesn't count).
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Top Three Beach Destinations (for those ready to leave the all inclusives behind)
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 18 August 2010
Since being back home and settling into somewhat of a normal existence we have been busy planning our next long haul. When we speak of our plans to travel from Eastern Europe and into the Middle East the majority roll their eyes and with a puzzled expression say ” That sounds great, but I have [...]
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Down hill racer<<<<>>>>Carrera cuesta abajo
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 17 August 2010
Este chavalo de San Juan de La Concepción, Masaya en Nicaragua estaba estrenando su camión de carreras. Se estaba preparando mentalmente por la carrera por delante. This little boy from San Juan de La Concepcion, Masaya in Nicaragua was trying out his new race truck. He was also mentally preparing himself for the race ahead.
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Wedged Between Volcanoes, Surrounded by Water. Fun?
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 16 August 2010
Ahhhh... nothing beats a magnificent hourglass figure, two glorious mounds of steamy goodness all wet and ready for those brave enough to take it all on. And if you can throw in a howler monkey or two, it makes for quite an adventure.
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Not that Granada, the Other One
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 15 August 2010
A quick Google for a place called Granada, is likely to turn up a couple dozen cities, towns, provinces and other such geographic designations all throughout Spain and the Americas. But if travelling to Nicaragua in Central America, there is no question to which Granada people are referring.
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Las Isletas de Granada
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 14 August 2010
Our trip to the little islands of Granada, Nicaragua started out quite wet. However, as the minutes journeyed forward, the rain stopped and we had a decent day. Nuestro viaje a Las Isletas de Granada, Nicaragua comenzó bien mojado. Sin embargo, a medida que pasaron los minutos, se pará la lluvia y disfrutamos de un [...]
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Handicap accesible? Accesible para minusválidos?
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 11 August 2010
Rostipollos, Bello Horizonte, Managua, Nicaragua Need I say more? ¿Debo decir más?
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Man, oh Managua
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 11 August 2010
I guess one could get caught in a trap of capital prejudiced. That is to say after visiting (or just hearing about) the capital cities in Central America, one might think they're all the same.
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The Aged Lion
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 10 August 2010
Everyone's heard about Pompeii, Italy. August 24th, 79AD, Mother Nature chose to demonstrate her tremendous power (namely Mt. Vesuvius).
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Gettin' Stranded in Esteli
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 6 August 2010
OK, I admit it. I am a stubborn independent traveller. I never look up recommended restaurants in the guide books. I rarely stay in the popular youth hostels. And i almost never get on the spiffy tourist buses to get from A to B. I prefer the challenge of local buses.
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Aeropuerto de Managua, Nicaragua <<<—–>>> Airport in Managua, Nicaragua
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 26 July 2010
In the Managua, Nicaragua airport, there are a number of traveler friendly services and amenities available. There is a free Wi-Fi connection throughout the airport. ATMs available: Banpro, Bancentro and BAC. You can get local currency (córdobas) or dollars. Souvenirs: Nicaraguan coffee, chocolate, lobster and beef, jewelry, magazines and local crafts. Food Court: an impressive [...]
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Nicaragua
Blog: Lost World Expedition - 24 July 2010
By time we had made it through our hellish day of Honduras, it was pretty late at night. At the Nicaraguan border they told us there was a hotel just a few miles down the road, so we drove on with our one headlamp, and pulled into the first hotel that we found. When we [...]
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Blue Café – Granada, Nicaragua
Blog: Nicaragua Tourist - 13 July 2010
Desayunamos en Blue Café en Granada, Managua. Es un lugar decente para desayunos típicos de Nicaragua y de estilo Americano. Te regalan el café con la comida. (No estaba tan bueno el café….) Huevos rancheros, papas, pan tostado y bacon por C$75 ($3.40). De 1 a 10, le doy un 6. We had breakfast en [...]
