Nicaragua, The largest country in Central America, a terrible history of violence and corruption, 70% of the population under the age of 30 and an emerging but very young tourist industry. This country deserved to be visited to see it for ourselves. We travelled from the northern highlands, down to to the colonial towns in the centre, the pacific coast and the largest lake in Central America. A mix of super hot days that gradually got wetter as we went south. An...

A very wet journey from Granada to Rivas, then a very expenisve (and as we discovered later, rip off!) taxi to the port village of San Jorge. We hopped onto a rather run down ferry for the hour crossing to Isla De Ometepe. This means 'two hills' in the local language, however they are not actually hills but two seperate volcanos that emerged out of Lake Nicaragua, the lake itself is the largest volcanic lake in the world. The volcanos are called Concepción (16...

Maybe the travellers are getting a spoilt with all the beauty that we see (and also a bit tired after 2 months on the road), as the last couple of days in lovely Granada we have struggled to motivate ourselves for much sightseeing! We have down a fair amount of meandering and a lot of eating, but mainly recharging batteries and making some plans to make sure we get through Costa Rica and into Panama in time to catch our flight to S America! Granada is a very wel...

One of the reasons we were keen to head to this part of the Pacific Ocean (apart from the sea and beach of course) was that this time of year the giant Pacific Turtles come up to lay their eggs. So a guide was arranged with us and a bunch of American friends at our hostal and off we went at 10pm to see if the turtle would come out to meet us. This involved a long walk down a very dark beach, with the tide coming in, constantly making us run away to keep dry. Th...

Hello Pacific Ocean, we almost saw you a month ago in Guatemala on the 2250m high Indian Nose but you hid behind the clouds. However now we have travelled from Leon to Las Peñitas, a very beautiful but surprisingly deserted beach town with long sandy beaches, some cool chilled out hostels, surfer dudes aplenty and amazing sunsets. We arranged to stay in the hostal run by our Volcano surfing guides, with a taxi and beer also thrown in for the deal. So in Leon we...