Isla Ometepe: Land of the Volcanoes
To get from Playa Maderas to Isla Ometepe proved much easier than it looked on paper. First, we decided to take the 30 minute shuttle back to San Juan del Sur to wander the city a bit. The trek on the beach back to the shuttle outside Los Tres Hermanos proved brutal...
Don’t Want To Party In San Juan del Sur? Go To Playa Maderas Instead!
San Juan del Sur is known as party-central for Nicaragua. Since neither Philip nor I are big partiers, and “Sunday Funday” sounded unappealing, we decided to skip out on the nightlife in San Juan del Sur itself and headed to Playa Maderas instead, a remote beach about...
Las Isletas & Volcán Mombacho with Erik Tours
One of the big draws to Granada is the Isletas tour. The Isletas are a set of islands located southeast of Granada, in Lake Nicaragua, that were originally formed due to an avalanche of stones and mud coming off Volcán Mombacho. Numerous tour companies offer the...
Wandering Granada
To get from León to Granada, take a bus from León to Managua then another bus from Managua to Granada, a city which instantly captured my heart. The colonial buildings were beautifully colorful and the city was very clean; it was far prettier than we expected and...
Wake Boarding? Check. Sand Boarding? Check. Volcano Boarding?! CHECK!
One of the only things I knew about Nicaragua before planning this trip was that it offered Volcano Boarding down Cerro Negro. Yes, you heard that right: Volcano Boarding. Many companies offer volcano boarding (with Big Foot known as the craziest), but we decided to...Hi, I’m Sarah!
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