Lovely Nicaragua..

Sunset over the main cathedral, Granada

Fruit and vegetable market, Masaya

One of the twin volcanoes, Isla de Ometepe

My week in this through history troubled country is sadly about to end. Nicaragua was a very dangerous country a couple of years ago with a civil war between the left and right side. As a tourist you wont really notice this and the very friendly inhabitants make sure you wont. It´s important that you have a good time here and the reputation will bring more tourists in the future. Most of the time you´ll get a fair price and don´t have to feel tricked.

I really like this country (if you haven´t noticed) and would love to go back here, a week is far from enough. The food is great, everything is pretty cheap and the tourist scene hasn´t turned in to something like Thailand.

We spend 3 days on the volcano island and after hiking and hitchhiking around the island as crazy i feel like we did the most of our time there. We took yesterday in Granada, the conservative city with beautiful colonial buildings in the middle of three volcanoes.

I´m starting to get used to Philips tempo. Getting up at 5.30 to see the most of the days has it advantages and it´s not hard falling a sleep at night. The one thing which bothers me abit is that i can´t really make any friends because the next day we´ll be gone doing what we´ve planed in another city.

We´ll be taking buses to a city in the north west by the border tomorrow and hopefully the next day we´ll get all the way through Honduras to the maya ruins in the west corner of the country.

all the best/andrea