Nicaragua
Worth visiting!
The first time I went to this place — 1 year ago
I was a bit nervous as to what I would find in Nicaragua, the legacy of past conflicts. It is a country/people which really captured my heart and illicited a spectrum of emotions daily from despair to joy.
A country of stark contrasts – beauty, filth, friendly, brutality (past atrocities). The environmental degradation was quite shocking- rivers dried up and filled with rubbish, the pollution of Lake Managua etc the fallout from civil wars and associated poverty…BUT the I would go back in a shot.
Does not have the pretension of Costa Rica, people are relaxed and genuine ,,,,will laugh at your phrasebook spanish (with you) or be impatient with your gringa unfamiliarity with the cordoba.
Climb a volcanoe, visit an organic coffee farm, understand the revolutionary monuments of Managua, look for the freshwater shark, go for cycle with the local kids….
Go to Nicaragua!!