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The dry season
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    • MalenaN
  • By MalenaN on January 6, 2004
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    by MalenaN
    The dry season in Nicaragua is between December and May. Every day is sunny with a blue sky and the air is dry. Slowly the landscape changed from green to yellow/brown. The week before I left Nicaragua, in the middle of May, more clouds gathered on the sky and it became all grey. I thought it was going to rain again, but before I left it didn't.

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    Carpet of petals
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  • Updated By zweiblumen on November 30, 2004
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    • Shower of petals - Nicaragua
    Shower of petals
    by zweiblumen
    Fallen blossom - From a Manzana de agua tree (water apple) - such a resplendent pink/purple carpet that I just had to photograph it - Thanks to fellow VTer Quime from Panama for identifying the tree for me (check out the flowers on his homepage!).

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    Finding a Local Guide
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  • Updated By epicult on October 2, 2004
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    • Amando - Cabbie turned guide - Nicaragua
    Amando - Cabbie turned guide
    by epicult
    Many people travel and do so solely by the 'god-like' word of their trusty Lonely Planet book. While these books are good, you're only going to follow the trail of every other person who reads these books. If you want a real experience, try to speak with staff at the restaurants you eat in, the cabs you hire or the people you meet in the street. These people make the best guides because they know the area in which you are traveling in.

    If you get along with someone and they seem helpful, resourceful and genuine, ask them if they'd like to hangout with you for a day or two to show you the ins and outs of that area. In return, keep them fed and/or feed them copious amount of beer. Most jump at the opportunity. In return they will get you better prices, take you places no tour or book could, occasionally invite you to meet their friends/family or have you over for dinner or even put you up for a night or two. Isn't that what we're ultimately after anyway? The real deal?

    These have been the best experiences I've had in ALL my travels. Try it, you'll like it!

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    Reminders of a Tragic Past
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  • By BorderHopper on November 26, 2005
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    • Memorial to 5 boys killed during the revolution in - Nicaragua
    Memorial to 5 boys killed
    during the revolution in
    by BorderHopper
    A statue of a boy was erected as a memorial to 5 slain boys who were killed 20 ears ago in front of this house in the city of Masaya during the Sandinista revolution. The boys were killed by Nicaraguan nationl guard troops who encountered them while on patrol in Masaya. The boys were shot by a machine gun mounted on a patrol vehicle because one of the boys had an AK-47 in hand. I was told that the boys weren't actually fighting in the war, though many children did take up arms during the revolution, but that they were emulating their older family members who were fighting. These 5 boys paid the ultimate price and had the misfortune of encountering jumpy government troops on the look out for Sandinistas.

    I noticed this memorial while driving through Masaya. There isn't a lot left in Nicaragua which will remind you that a civil war once took place on these very streets...but the revolution is a part of their history and occassionally you will encounter sad reminders of an old war.

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    The rain season
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  • Updated By MalenaN on January 4, 2004
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    by MalenaN
    When I came to Nicaragua it was a very green country. It was in the middle of the rainy season. That doesn't mean it rains all the time, but there can be heavy showers and sometimes grey with clouds. But there is also a lot of sunshine. And it is always hot and humid.
    I remember that when we were sitting in rockingchairs on the terrace outside our house in the rainy season we could often see big horizontal lightnings low on the sky (I had never seen that before) and in the air there were fireflies.
    The picture is taken outside our house. Compare with the picture below that is also from outside our house, but taken in May.
    The rain season is between May - December.

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    The Old Train Station in Granada
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    • BorderHopper
  • By BorderHopper on November 26, 2005
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    • The last train out of Granada, Nicaragua - Nicaragua
    The last train out of Granada,
    Nicaragua
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    We encountered a part of Granada's more prosperous days when we came across this now defunct train station on the outskirts of the old colonial city. There are no train tracks running to the terminal building other than a 50 foot section of old rail track. After the Sandinista revolution the country was in shambles. The government had to sell off their national rail system to regain some much neeeded money that they lost during the war years. The train cars were all sold to El Salvador and the rail tracks were sold to Japan. This train station is now a school and the train engine adorns the yard of the school. If you are a real train buff you can hire a taxi to take you a short distance outside of central Granada.

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    Historic Granada
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  • By BorderHopper on August 13, 2006
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    • The cathedral in Granada's parque central - Nicaragua
    The cathedral in
    Granada's parque central
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    One of my favorite activities while in the historic colonial city of Granada, Nicaragua was visiting the various colonial structures around parque central. Many of these aging Spanish structures are being rehabilitated by joint teams of architects from Spain and Nicaragua. This particular Catholic cathedral dominated the central square in Granada and can be easily explored during its opening hours. I've heard that you can find a care taker on the premisis and have him show you the way up the bell tower for a rooftop view of old Granada.

    We visited the church during mass and stood silently as we wathed the parishiners follow the priest in prayer. People seemed welcoming & even oblivious to our presence so it wasn't very awkward for us to photograph the various halls even during mass.

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    Ruben Dario´s museum
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  • By quime on July 28, 2004
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    • Leon regular house - Nicaragua
    Leon regular house
    by quime
    I found that house close to Ruben Dario´s museum.
    the museum is free of charge, with some history of this famous poet.

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    one of the survivors
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  • By quime on July 28, 2004
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    by quime
    This building was one of the few that survive the 1972 earthquake that destroy Managua.
    Now is a modern hotel and I heard Dictator Somoza used as his warehouse after the earthquake.

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    travel by boat to the volcano.
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  • Updated By cosmopolit on August 26, 2002
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    by cosmopolit
    Granada remained the least affected by the terrible earthquake in 1972 which literally flatened Managua the once thriving capital. Granada is a really charming place where the wealthy live. It's also Violetta Chamorro's hometown. In the immediate proximity of the shore in lake Nicaragua there are lots of small islands and islets. They've been created by an extremely severe eruption of the volcano. Huge lumps of matter and boulders flew for miles and dropped in the lake. Nowadays they make very beautiful tiny paradise's for the afluent who built theyr weekend villas on these islands. Cruising by boat inbetween them makes for spectacular views.

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