Unique Places in Nicaragua

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Nicaragua is The Unbeaten Path. It is "Costa Rica" 20 years ago: miles of undeveloped beaches, thousands of acres of virgin jungles and forests. This is not the place to look for 5 Star Hotels, although there are a couple. This is the place to really get away. To get intimate with nature without swarms of others every where you go. Nicaragua is extremely safe and has a great potential as the world's next great "get a way". I highly recommend getting out of the cities and working with local tour operators who can tailor any trip according to your desire. I will be happy to recommend companies if you wish. I am currently focusing much effort on out of the way places that have unexplored archeological sites and rivers for kayaking/rafting. Additionally I work closely with Barcelo, Montelimar Resorts in providing adventure trips.

It's a tiny tiny town, but it has the best museum on Sandino and the Sandinist revolution, as well as a drop dead beautiful church, and nice people on the Plaza to talk to - if you speak Spanish.

I'll be more specific on my page about the city.

The pacific coast is more developed; there are many beaches along the coast, some like Pochomil is where the general population goes , it is closer to Managua. But a more exclusive beach is Montelimar, and San Juan del Sur( there are many beautiful beach houses close to the beach) but you can find nice motels as well.

Managua is not a pretty city. Visit cities outside the capital city Managua, the weather is better, landscape is greener, fauna is predominant...the colonial architecture is beautiful.
Cities such as Granada, Leon, Esteli, Matagalpa.

After several days of wandering around the rainforests in Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui (Costa Rica) we hopped on a small covered boat and started our trip up the Rio Sarapiqui. After 2 1/2-3 hrs we finally reached the San Juan River and our first sight of Nicaragua. Immigration was a small shack where we got out and had our pictures taken by our boat driver. No papers to fill out-that was all done at the lodge. Another 1/2-3/4hr and we were on the Rio Indio and getting our first glimpse of the lodge.
Set out on a small point on the Rio Indio this Lodge is a hidden jewel. It is located in the middle of a 700,000 acre reserve. It started out many years ago as a gold mining area by Cornelius Vanderbilt. As most gold mining areas do, it went bust. There is still a small railroad track that had been used to haul the gold as well as a bit of rusty equipment. There is also the small remains of a town (Greytown). Nothing left but the ghosts, literally. The only thing there were the gravestones, some of which are still readable.
The only people besides the lodge owners in that whole area are the Indians.
Our main objective was to see some Great Green Macaws. We were not disappointed. We sat and watched a tree that had 9 of them for a good hour.

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West of Managua, in the province of León, is the village and beach El Transito. Along the beach there are vulcanic rocks. Rocks that are nice to sit on to watch the waves break. Rockes that creat tidal pools, big pools to swim in and small pools favoured by small organisms. And you can see a lot of crustaceans running quickly over the walls of the rock.

About 70 km southeast of Managua, by the Pacific Ocean, is the small fishingvillage Casares. In the morning the fishermen bring their catch of fish and lobster, which you can enjoy fresh for lunch at one of the restaurants.
Even though the beach is not the cleanest it is a nice place.

Well... I was quite surprised that they have a mailman on Little Corn Island. He/she delivers mail to these small letter boxes (pictured) hanging from small twigs and branches along the islands jungle paths. The mailboxes don't seem to correspond to any particular house, trail or other marking but look as though they are just placed randomly along the trail.