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 [...]
If you're literally just here to find out how to get to Little Corn Island then jump straight to Useful Shit. This isn't a recipe blog, you don't need my life story. But I feel like this two day mission needs a blog all of its very own so when I'm old and decrepit I [...]
I did consider filing this one under Granada's Murder Mountains on account of the fact it's a fuck off great big lake in the caldera of a volcano but Apoyo hasn't erupted for over 20000 years which pretty much makes it extinct. Plus we packed up all of our shit, left our lovely air conditioned [...]
Granada is the oldest city in Central America and the only reason it's not the capital of Nicaragua is on account of the fact it was basically at war with León about who should have that honour so eventually they were like, fuck it, Managua can be the capital, now stop your arguing. We liked [...]
I was mildly hungover from the previous evening's rum related indulgences. My womb had chosen today to engage in The Wringing and felt like it was twisting itself into impossible shapes in order to expel that pesky lining it insists on producing every fucking month. It was a bit breezy today and the lake was [...]
The journey across the island was an emotional one, at least the bus from Balgüe to Altagracia was. By the time it rolled through the village it was jam packed, it was human Tetris. They'd even managed to squeeze a whole arse dirt bike on there. Tarrant stared at the carnage in horror as the [...]
Balgüe is a tiny, chilled little place which is exactly what we wanted it to be. We found a local comedor (eatery) selling Nicaraguan food, plus there are tourist restaurants should you fancy a splurge. The pulperías, convenience stores, are tiny and don't stock much but as long as we can get egg, bread and [...]
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