Granada Travel Blogs

Many people told us that Granada is the most beautiful city of Central America, since most Central American cities don´t really have any Colonial-influenced buildings (at least for Costa Rica I can back that) and this is the one city that at least has some buildings like that. So we were pretty cu…

Well its time to finally say goodbye to Nicaragua, its been a amazing place to visit, made me feel angry at times, sad and also so happy, Nicaragua is certainly a magic country.  We leave on the Tica bus at 6.30am, ugh somehow i am still not gettin used to all those horrible early mornings, …

They didn’t give us a stamp at the border.  This is always a bit of a downer, but now that turned into a real pain.  We got off the plane and went to collect our bags.  An official had waited until we claimed our bags before pouncing on us.  “Ahh, no stamp!  You are obv…

Sunday, November 02Well somehow Robb and Cindy managed to sleep through all of the street noise and the howling dogs (not as bad as in Thimphu, Bhutan but noisy nevertheless).  On top of that, Cindy and Cathy both froze (Cindy snuck our A.C back up to mid 70’s but Robb snuck his down to 68).…

  Granada on the other hand was a terrific little city. It reminded me of Antigua Guatemala, not just because of its colonial looks, but also in the way that Guatemala has a very similar situation where the capital is largely skipped by visitors, in favour of a nearby colonial city. I bo…

Today we woke up early to eat and meet our guide for our kayaking trip. After a short taxi ride we arrived at the lake and hopped into the kayaks. I was amazed at the size of the lake. It almost looks like an ocean. The water is dirty and full of debris. Today was the first time i was able to pract…

Today Jon, Hanneke and I went for a walk down to Lago de Nicaragua.  Although the walk was nice and took us past some beautiful colonial buildings, the lake itself was unfortunately fairly unimpressive.Then we stopped in at Euro Cafe for some food and played some ping pong while we waited.&nbs…

Today was my last day in Central America.  it was such an amazing experience and i am very sad it is coming to an end. however it is not quite done yet. For the most part we hung out with some of the other teachers from Jenni's school in a cute town called Granada, which is right next to lak…

For the first time in my life I am in Central America and been for the last 10 days in Costa Rica which has nothing less than spectacular  nature. I was however disappointed by the lack of Spanish architecture. While being on the coast talking to fellow travelers I was told about Granada, the …

I spent one week in Nicaragua for two reasons: it was my last Central American nation to visit, and it was my birthday! After 5 days of my usual 'backpacking' and roughing it, I spent the last two days in an all-inclusive Pacific resort... It was a great gift and trip!!

We climbed into a 4x4 jeep with 4 other gringos and headed off towards the Volcano Mombacho park. We drove to the top of the volcano up a very steep and winding road and once at the top, we walked for a few hours with a guide along the crater path. Very strange to feel a cool temperature, even put …

Well... im back here, costa rica. And well i am quite glad to be back, i just seemed to miss this place so much! We left Nicaragua on monday 30th...... it was quite a short bus trip, i think all together it took around 8 hours, and usually taking 9 hours so i was very glad of that. We was up at 4 a…

Granada, Nicaragua Utilia was great for a few days. I probably could have spent another few days there and got my open water certificate for diving but that will have to wait for a while I guess. To get to Granada we would have to take a short thirty minute boat ride from Utilia to the mainland th…

Today we left Leon in the morning to go by bus to Granada. To do so we first had to go to the bus terminal next to the mercado in Leon and there grab a bus to Managua. after almost two hours we arrived in Managua. There we took a taxi to the UCA terminal where we found a minibus to Granada. We arri…

Monkey BeardsOne thing I have learnt is that hostel choice needs to match mood.  So if I am feeling quiet and contemplative, holing up in the likes of the Bearded Monkey is a bad idea. Fine if I was a in a playful no-I-really-am-in-my-mid-twenties-honest mode, but I wasn't. So this was a bad i…