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The oldest colonial city in Central America

January 26th, 2010 David&Kyra

Our first night we spent at the Oasis, a hostel in the center of Granada. The rooms are small but the shared area is quite beautiful. The pool and gardens are in an open air courtyard. There are a number of hammocks along the garden for quick napping and resting.

Honduras to Nicuragua: a survivors tale

January 9th, 2010 Heids & Dunc

Reports of the Bay Islands off Honduras were of constant rain, the tail end of a hurricane. So after Copan Ruinas, we thought it would be pointless trying to scuba – the main draw of the Bay Islands – in murky waters. We headed south instead to Nicaragua, stopping briefly in the Honduran tongue-twister capital  Read More »

San Juan Del Sur is for surfers

December 18th, 2009 Mike & Shelly

Well after been told 4 different times for the bus 5:30, 8:00. 9:00, 9:30 someone was looking out for me as I got lucky and picked the correct one 8:00 for the bus that left Granada to Rivas approx 1.5 hours trip for $0.90. Then I was suppose to catch another bus in Rivas to  Read More »

A load of Cocibolca

December 14th, 2009 Cag

Cocibolca…for those who are wondering, is the name of the MASSIVE lake here Nicaragua which covers about a tenth of the country & on which Granada is situated. It is also the name of the school that Lissa & I attended for 2 weeks where we had a lot of fun (in amongst all the  Read More »