Isla de Ometepe Travel Blogs

After only a few hours of sleep again, we had to get up at 4:30am already to be ready in time to conquer the volcano. And we really got up at that time and were ready to leave at 5am even though there still was no water (means brushing teeth with water that was supposed to be drank), but there was …

I can very vividly remember the exact moment when I fell in love with Nicaragua. It was indeed the same day as I entered the country, in the evening as we had just ordered dinner at a local diner in Moyagalpa. It happened when I ordered a beer for dinner, and the waiter came back with a 1000ml - on…

This volcano is dormate with a lake in the crater 8hrs to the top and back they said well this isn't exactly the case...... getting up early to meet up with our fellow climbers the isrealies and the pom

Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize, Guatemala 3 months of traveling and studying, trying to get around cheap

We could tell right away something was horribly wrong by the way people were running toward the gate. The intense movements of every muscle, every arm and leg, bespoke catastrophe. We were a hundred yards away, on the shores of Isla de Ometepe, just getting out of the warm waters of Lake Nicaragua …

Monday, November 03So the same older man who spoke a few words of English when he picked us up in Managua at the airport was waiting for us when we got back to the Hotel Dario so we packed up our stuff and piled into his less than stellar car.  The roads in Nicaragua are actually surprisingly …

Isla de Ometepe, the largest volcanic island in the world, is located on Lake Nicaragua and absolutely breathtaking . . . well, on a clear day, anyways. I think we gotta stay away from Islands for a bit.  Everytime we step foot on one, the weather is horrible!! Luckily, we caught a glim…

Well the original plan had been to hike up to the top of Maderas Volcano, which was about a 10hr hike, but seeing as it had been NYE the night before and we had all consumed a lot of rum, and the fact we would have had to get up at 5am, we decided to hike up to San Ramon Waterfall instead. We took …

Isla Ometepe, Nicaragua.

nach einem tag erholen am strand sind wir wieder reisefaehig und nehmen morgens um 4.45 uhr den ersten bus richtung grenze. der grenzuebergang (sowieso schon chaotisch organisiert und mit 1.5km-spaziergang durchs niemandsland) ist bei unserem dritten besuch anstrengender als je zuvor…

Rented a motorcycle for $5/hr and cruised around the island.  Went Ojo de Agua, but didn´t swim as someone stole my swimming suit while they were drying in El Salvador.  First thing taken on this trip.  I wasn´t that impressed with the island as a whole, but I didn´t hike the volc…

Awaking early, I got dressed, checked my bag for everything I needed and met everybody at the van. We drove literally 3 doors down and stopped for breakfast ... surely we could have walked?! Breakfast out the way, we met with our guide (he was in jeans!!!) and set off once again toward the bottom o…

Doug and I went to bed last night knowing that we were going to have a day of traveling ahead of us. We woke at nine, had our typical eggs/toast and went about our merry way…heavy backpacks and all. We walked down the street and tried to "wheel and deal" rates for a taxi ride to the dock. We …

8 weeks from Panama City to Mexico City travelling through Northern Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and Southern Mexico.

So after a tearful goodbye to the moms and my sis, and many promises (or lies...) to come home soon, we met up with an old friend and headed to the beautiful island of Ometepe in southern Nicaragua.  The island is comprised of two huge volcanoes nestled in the middle of Lake Nicaragua, a lake …