We've not seen a lot of water gushing spectacularly over a rock face recently which is one of the downsides to mincing around the Tropics right at the end of the dry season. Actually it's meant to be the start of the rainy season now but I believe it's been a lot dryer than usual, [...]
We decided to plonk ourselves slap bang on the Ruta de las Flores for no other reason than we'd be closer to the food. There aren't any flowers at this time of year which is the main draw of the Ruta de las Flores, obviously, but Juayúa still have their mini food festival every weekend [...]
We weren't going to come to Suchitoto, it wasn't on our radar until a few people in a Facebook group mentioned it was pretty and we had a couple of spare nights to use up. Why the fuck not, hey? San Salvador saw us off with a light rain which continued all the way to [...]
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 [...]
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