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Beautiful Nicaragua!

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by: Monika Sundem
A quick paced whirlwind tour of Nicaragua, visiting the main highlights of Masaya, Granada, Isla de Ometepe, San Juan del Sur, and Leon.Our first trip ALJ before adding it to our destinations!

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Beautiful Nicaragua!

Want to go? Nicaragua Vieja, Best of Nicaragua

I went to: Nicaragua, Managua, Granada, Ometepe, Leon City, San Juan del Sur
Ometepe Island in the backgroundAsosoca LagoonMasaya Volcano, look at all the sulfur!The cross overlooking Masaya VolcanoMe in front of the sulfur, I could barely breath!Apoyo Lagoon, Catarina LookoutCatarina Lookout, little shopsCatarina Lookout, some pottery on displayshops at Catarina LookoutA tuk tuk, mode of transporta street vendor selling nutsshops selling pottery and ceramicsLadies at the hotel in GranadaStreet of GranadaOur guide in the main plaza in GranadaFountain in the middle of the main plaza of Granadaanother tour group in the main plaza of GranadaHorse drawn carriage anyone?local radio, they let some of our people on the air!Courtyard in an old conventStatues in the museum, Granadaview of main Cathedral, Granadastatues in GranadaIsletas boat tour in GranadaIsletas boat tour in GranadaIsletas boat tour in Granadaman rowing his boat in the Isletas of Granadaman still rowing his boatone of the nice homes on the isletastaking pictures of monkeysthe monkeys liked to come out and playwhite faced/capuchin monkeyThis mischievious monkey jumped onto a boatand the mischievious monkey would not get off the boatthe monkey, up closecute dog on the steps of our hotelour busold hospital, see the trees growing on the roof!hiking in the Mombacho cloudforestSpotting a bird, Mombacho cloudforestMombacho cloudforest, lots of mist!a crazy walkway crevass thingylearning about the cloudforestheliconiaour vehicle to get up the volcano to the top!the view from San Jorge ferry dockOur ferry to Ometepe Islandwaiting for the ferry, Ometepe Island in the backgroundon the ferryApproaching Ometepe IslandOmetepe IslandVolcan Concepcion, Ometepe IslandCoin and currency museum, El Ceibo, on Ometepe Islandpre-columbian pottery found on the farm in Ometepe IslandOld grinderweapons at El CeiboOld tobacco smokehousebats underground the old tobacco smokehousemy best friend, the butlera music and dance show on Ometepethe gangSanto Domingo Beach on Ometepe Island, the water level highsome of the things you will see on a road in Nicaraguaa crazy looking bug in our vankids waiting outside the petrogylphs farmwalking to see the petroglyphsa pasture, see how the fence post re-growsour guide, explaining the petroglyphspretty flowersFlowers on Ometepe Islandthe strangest saddle I have ever seen, two by fours and palmthe petroglyph and a horsea big ol pigwaiting in Moyogalpa for the ferryguitar player serenading us at lunchlunch and the musiciansmore volcanoes, not sure which one this isa random Christopher Columbus day parade we stumbled uponparade, they had multiple floatscute little drummer boy marching with all the big boysone was pulled by a tractorparade, a crazy instrumentnice costumes for columbus day!a boy and his parrotOld leon ruinsold leon ruins, the tomb where Davila and Cordoba were foundview of Momotombo from the Old Leon ruinsView of momotombo from old Leon ruinsold leon ruinsOur little hike to a lagoonAsosoca LagoonMain cathedral in Leon City, from its roof, you can see farold artifacts in El Convento, LeonHammock maker in Masayahammock store, where the finished product is sold.me in a hammockMasaya marketpottery, waiting to be fired and paintedmaking the pottery, a potters wheel spun by footfinished ceramicshow they carry their things homeour lunch spot in San Juan del Surstreet scene, San Juan del Sur, the main dragSan Juan del Sur, see the surfer!Marsella beach

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