Category Archives: Nicaragua
Fast Forward
This post is going to be a little bit different. We’re sitting in New Zealand right now and I’m still behind on our Central America adventure and we think people would rather hear about our time here rather than the rest of our time in Central America. So I’m going to hit the highlights of the remainder of our time in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama in one big post so I can move on to New Zealand. If you have any questions about anything I’m about to run through, just leave a comment and we’ll try our best to answer it. (wifi is spotty here in New Zealand)
Granada blah
Granada was weird. I don’t know how else to say it. We got dropped off in the Central Park, which is a common occurrence we’ve found, and we didn’t have a place reserved to stay, so we started walking with our backpacks towards the main street. A guy approached us and asked if we were looking for a place to stay. Unfortunately, the bags on our backs are huge signs that say, ‘HI WE’RE NEW AND NEED A ROOM!’.
Don’t go chasing Volcanoes
The only proof we needed that we were on an active volcano (besides the fact that we had just climbed up an active volcano), was when our guide walked over to the edge of a cliff and pulled out a shovel and started digging.
Nope!
Our two drivers who would take us from El Tunco, El Salvador, through Honduras, and into Leon, Nicaragua didn’t speak a lick of English, which we found a little odd. Usually when there are two guys riding in the bus, at least one of them can speak a little English and between a few of us on the bus who can speak a little Spanish, we can make it work. These guys pulled out their cell phones and typed words into Google Translate for us. If you’ve ever tried to use Google translate, you know how accurate it is, which is to say it’s not. I was staring at this guy’s phone, looking at both the english translation from Spanish and the Spanish he had typed into the box and I couldn’t understand either one of them.
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