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Cigars
Granada is a producer of Puros (sigars), primarily from tobacco grown in the cool hills around Masatepe, and often blended with northern Nicaraguan leaves.
Don Silvo loves to recieve visitors in his Dona Elba Cigar Factory (named after his mother), located at the west side of the town. He has a wide variety of cigars for sale in his showroom (right under a photo of him smoking a maduro with Arnold Schwarzeneger)
Come to see the roling factory where some 3.000 Puros are produced daily; and you also can get a glimpse off the interior off an colonial house.
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Iglesias del Calvario
It is set at the top of broad steps on a small hill overlooking one off Leon's narrow streets.
Renovatedin the late 1990s, El Calvario was built 200 years previous in a generaly baroque style, but with neoclassical ornamentation in the front that reflects the increasing French influence in Spain in the 18th century.
Inside are two famous statues knownas El Buen y el Mal Ladron (the good and the bad chief)
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Volcan Masaya
Easily accessible as a day trip from Managua or Granada, Volcan Masaya is one of the most visible active volcanoes in the country, featuring several bare, gaping craters and a constant stream of sulfurous gas, visible from as far away as the airport in Mangua.
Only 632 meters above sea level Volcan Masaya looks more like a vulgar wound in the earth's surface than the traditional image most of us have of a volcano.
The crater and it's unique environs have been successfully set aside and managed as a national park, complete with visitors center, nature museum and hiking trails.
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Managua
Nestled in the ashes of ancient volcanic eruptions, pockmarket by crater lakes and riven with tectonic faults, Managua's very geology speaks of destruction and rebirth.
Upon entering Managua for the first time in the 1500's, the conquering Spaniards were confirmed by a fierce people who defended their community to the last warrior. They left the place abandoned for some 300 years.
Manaqua, on the borders off Lago Xolotlan was declared Nicaragua's capital in the mid-19th century.
In 1931 an eartquake devastated Managua. Managuans rebuilt their city, only to see it consumed by flames in the fire of 1936. Again they rebuilt it.
From the eartquake off 1972 the city is never quite recoverd, and the ruins of the old city center, so as the Catedral Santiago de los Caballeros are still visible.
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Volcan Mombacho
Every bit of cool, misty, volcan Mombaco cloud forest higher then 850 meters above sea level is officially protected as nature reserve.
This equals about 700 hectares of park, rising to a peak elevation of 1.345 meters and comprising an incredibly rich, concentrated island of flora and fauna.
Mombacho is home to hundres of orchid and bromeliad species, tree ferns and old-growth cloud and dwarf forests.
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Isla de Ometepe
The island of Ometepe is Insulated from the rest of the country by the choppy waters of Lake Cocibolca.
Ometepa is awash in myths and legents, some of wich date back to the days of the Nahuatl
Long before the Spanish arrived the islanders considered Ometepe sacred ground, inhabited by gods of great power, and today a palpable sense of mystery and magic permeates day-to-day life.
Ometepe's allure attracts Nicaraguans from other regions of the country in addition to foreign stragglers, and visit here is a sensory experience unlike any others.
At night the slopes of the volcanoes echo with the deep roar of howler monkeys and by day the air is filled with the sharp cry of the thousands of parakeets and huracas (bright blue jays that scold ypu from the treetops)
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 by worldtraveler55
The striking statue El Guerrillero sin Nombre (the Nameless Guerrilla Soldier) is an imposing, gold-painted, and powerful looking (and well-endowed) man, clutching a pick-axe in his right hand and an AK-47 in his upraised, hulklike left hand.
This is an important city landmark and a symbol of the revolution's aspirations, inscribed with the words of Sandino that translate: "only the labores and farmers will go to the end"
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San Ramon
Near San Ramon is a set of gorgeos 150-meter high waterfalls on the south slope of Maderas.
It's worth having a guide as the trail up to the falls is not easy to find, nor is there one single trail.
The hike up to the falls through dry and transition forest is a particulary enjoyable one.
When you're lucky, you can meet some howler monkey's.
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Isla Juan Venando
The tropical dry forest, mangroves and inland estuary south of Las Penitas make up the habitat of many migratory birds and wetland creatures, and are also an important nesting beach for sea turtles.
The park is named for a man who, in colonial times, made his living hunting deer on the island and selling the meat in the market of Subtiava.
For more bird-pictores see my Birdpages of Nicaragua
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 by Christian.Lafont
In 1531 a "Lady from Heaven" appeared to a poor Indian at Tepeyac, a hill northwest of Mexico City; she identified herself as the Mother of the True God and left an image of herself imprinted miraculously on his tilma, a poor quality cactus-cloth, which should have deteriorated in 20 years but shows no sign of decay 469 years later and still defies all scientific explanations of its origin. Leave a Comment
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