Masaya Vacations, Masaya Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

On the 3rd we had a nice late start as some of us had decided to visit the markets in Masaya, a town about 20km from Granada. The buses left every 30min so we could leave whenever we wanted. I was glad we had decided to go there as the markets were really good. We visited both the Mercado Municipal Ernesto Fernandez and the Mercado Viejo, each of which sold traditional handicrafts such as leathergoods, woodwork, hammocks, paintings etc. I bought some hand-painted wooden boxes and some vases-d…

I know i am forgetting to write something that happened before this but i wanted to share my experience while it was still very fresh in my head. We did a tour of volcan masaya and it was one of my greatest experiences. We were picked up in a micro bus in granada and taken to masaya for a brief shopping trip. I do not recommend going to masaya to shop... what i mean is they had nice things but they were selling the same stuff that the kids in the streets of granada were trying to sell us. I d…

Visited the Masaya volcano park, with the active Santiago Crater.  It's a bit expensive to visit if you're not a resident or anything- about 70 cordobas for foreigners as opposed to 20 for residents.  I would say that either way, it's worth it for a different experience.The drive up to the volcano was beautiful.  The crater itself was simply majestic.  It's easy to see why the indigenuous people that used to live there thought the crater to be the mouth of Hell.  They…

Just a short drive outside of Managua is the Volcán Masaya National Park. Visitors are able to drive right up to the volcano’s crater. In the parking lot, signs warn visitors to back their cars in parking spaces for a quick escape incase of an eruption. Gasses constantly steam out of the crater. At times a breeze blew the gasses toward us causing us to gag and cough. The volcano is surrounded by other volcanoes and hot springs. We did some hiking around here. The vistas are incredible…