You sort of get used to volcanos looming over towns and cities in Central America, you start to expect it. If a fuck off big cone doesn't adorn the skyline you wonder what's missing. I'm still not bored of murder mountains though and I'm not sure I ever will be but I don't feel the [...]
We had to cross a tiny section of Honduras to get from Nicaragua to El Salvador so that was a sweaty, multi-bus mission but Honduras immigration was fun. We were greeted by a lovely chap who spoke English and our passports were flicked through by officials. Then they started laughing and showing my passport around. [...]
People usually day trip the Somoto Canyon from Estelí but it's spitting distance to the border with Honduras (so close my phone network couldn't decide if we were in Nicaragua or Honduras and kept sending roaming texts) so it just made more sense for us to pack our shit up and stay for a couple [...]
Estelí isn't going to blow your box apart. It's not an awful place to be, it's just not the most inspiring place either. If you're one of these people that gets a kick out of being one of so few tourists in town you think you're the only tourist in town you're going to love [...]
I'd struggled to find a lot of information on how to get to the various areas in the Miraflor Nature Reserve. The Lonely Planet, increasingly a source of useless bullshit, insisted that accommodation should be booked through Treehuggers. Of course the Treehuggers website wholeheartedly agreed with them and all my research kept bringing me back [...]
We did attempt to do things in Matagalpa. We didn't intend to be lazy, chicken-munching (not a euphemism) slobs but we found a grilled chicken place on our first night so we pretty much ended up spending quite a lot of time shovelling that into our greasy chops like we were raised by wolves. Matagalpa [...]
We hadn't even emptied Cerro Negro out of our shoes before we were off up another volcano; Volcán Telica. It's a popular sunset spot but there's also an option for camping and we do love a spot of camping. A couple of agencies run this tour, we went with Volcano Day on account of the [...]
Alright, so, fun fact, the ferry that takes you to Big Corn on Wednesdays and back to Bluefields on Thursdays is a lovely, big, stable ferry that looks like it has "staying afloat" on its list of things to do today. The ferry that brought us to Big Corn on Saturday is a tiny, rocking [...]
I'd originally only booked two day dives and a night dive but pretty much as soon as we descended on our first dive at Long Rock I knew I was going to go again the following day. The viz was amazing, the coral was beautiful, with the water being a toasty 28°C I didn't even [...]
It took us the best part of two days to get here but fuck me, it's worth the trek. Little Corn Island is everything you want a Caribbean tropical paradise to be. The water is clear everywhere you look, even where the pangas dock. There are palm trees for days. It's sweaty hot too which [...]
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