We wandered around 'town' trying to find somewhere doing breakfast, only to give up, buy some yoghurts, etc. from a corner shop & then find a cafe! So our trip didn't end up starting until about 11:30am. However the walk around town was great, seeing real life 'cowboys' in their hats & boots & watching whole families pass by on just one bike! This again, is a town like all the others for the past month or so, laid out in a grid with no road names, one...

We had a Cigar factory tour planned for today, which we shared with the French guys & about 6 others. It was quite interesting seeing how they dried & straightened the leaves & what leaves they used from where for which part of the cigar. It seems they don't use local leaves for the outer wrapping & instead import those ones from the US & Caribbean. After a couple more rooms seeing (only!) women sorting the leaves into the different shades of ...

After finding my place with an English brekkie, we of course had to head back there before heading to the station for the 12:45pm bus. No-one had told us though that that bus doesn't run on a Sunday & the next one wasn't until 2:15pm. b*****! So we waited & chatted with (yet another) young American couple until the bus left. It got us into Esteli at about 5pm & we shared a cab to the hostel (Hospedaje Luna) with a French couple. The place was run by a...

Much to my excitement we found a place doing pretty much a full English breakfast, so my day of sight-seeing started perfectly. That soon changed when we reached the Cathedral & realised all the places we wanted to visit were closed until 2pm. Whilst waiting we went on a hunt for toiletries & found that men in this country don't use shower gel. Not only that but all the soaps are perfumed. So I'm not sure what men use to wash with, but I'm gonna smell ver...

As our place was doing food, we scoffed down some brekkie & had a quick stroll before catching the same taxi driver as yesterday, who convinced us to use him to drive us to Managua, rather than using the bus. As I'd had a bit of spaz thing this morning, we decided as it was only $10, we'd go for it. It was only halfway there when our driver kept pointing out the volcano that I realised we'd forgotten to do the night tour to see the lava inside the volcano, wh...