Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

Ticabus office in Esteli

Country forums / Central America / Nicaragua

I'm in Esteli, arrived this morning, and I need to buy a Ticabus ticket to San Salvador for Sunday. The Ticabus website says it is 1/2 block north La Farmacia Esteli, and LP online says on Av Central. I found Farmacia Esteli on Av Central(and they sell Transica tickets) but walked up and down the block both directions and didn't see the Ticabus outlet. I saw an office for Cental Line, but that's it. The Tica directions seemed odd as 1/2 block N of Farmacia Esteli is 1/2 block S of Parque Municipal, and that seems a more obvious landmark, unless I have the wrong Farmacia Esteli. The woman at my hotel (Hospedaje Luna) didn't seem sure. i still have tomorrow but Saturday I'm doing a all day trip to Miraflor, so I need to get it tomorrow. Can anyone give me better directions? I'll ask locally again tomorrow.

Thanks.

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Thank you. I double checked the tica bus site, and it does say al norte, so unless my LP map is oriented wrong, it's 1/2 cuadra west. I'll find it in the morning. Muchas gracias.

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And thanks for the heads up about the lunch stop. Will that be in El Sal or Honduras? I've been carrying a stash of $100 in $5 and $1 in good conditions for El Salvador as a starter fund until I can get to a bank and change $20 for smaller, as I understand the reluctance in Central America to change large and damaged bills.

I'm going to have probably about $100 worth of cordobas left when I exit Nicaragua(overestimated my spending because I didn't want to spend more money in ATM fees). I assume I will be assailed by money changers while I go through border crossing from Nicaragua to Honduras. I'm just passing through Honduras now, but will be back after a week on my way to Guatemala and Belize, so I plan on just changing the cordobas for lempiras and keeping them in my money belt for a week.

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