We have all signed up for a full day tour around Granada and district. Our guide, Ramon, picks us up around 9 and we start with a driving tour to some significant places around Granada township. This includes the former railway station which is now used as a youth employment training centre, a cemetry where many former Nicaraguan Presidents are buried and the former hospital which was abandoned years ago and is now being a converted into another employment trai...

Early start, 5am departure from the hotel, with 12-14 hours of travel ahead of us. After about an hour we arrive at the wharf. First stop is Honduran Immigration. Despite having been given copies of our passports a few days before it still takes them around half an hour to process us all. We then have to walk past around 100 armed police on our way to the boat. Ah, the boat. Not quite what we were expecting. Long and narrow, a plastic covering to give us s...