Two ports in two days, it seems we're in full swing. The captain just announced that it’s going to be 36 degrees Celsius so we’re in for a hot one. With our 09:00 a.m. arrival here in Corinto this gives us about 7 ½ hours to explore this small Nicaraguan town of about 24,000. We were here last year in November but we headed directly to the town of Leon, so we decided that we just hang in here particularly because it was going to be hotter inland,...

We arrived into Corinto, Nicaragua on this the 11th day of the cruise. From here on in, this is all new for Deborah and I – anything south of Acapulco, Mexico is virgin territory. We had arranged a tour with one of the ladies that I conversed with on Cruise Critic – a $50.00 US p.p. – 7-hour tour. It's about a one-and-a-half hour drive in thankfully an air-conditioned, 12-passenger van into Leon. This is a city of about 350,000 people and likely...