Leon and Granada, Nicaragua

We arrived in Leon at night and all the hostels were fully booked, the only place we could find was Hotel America. Dont let the name fool you, we walked in find find about 10 grannies on rocking chairs doing their knitting and crosswords. We walked back outside to see if we walked through the right door and that we hadnt walked into an old peoples home. To our surprise, it was the right door.

We have noticed since that eveybody in Nicaragua is crazy for rocking chairs.

The reason for being in Leon was hearing from people we have met about the Volcano boarding here..... and it was a good as everyone said it was. We had to carry boards up the volcano and then donning our sexy orange boiler suits and goggles we raced each other down two at a time.

GRANADA -

We were moving on down through Nicaragua to Isla de Ometepe to climb a volcano but first we had to get a ferry at Granada, a Colonial town on the banks of the massive Lago de Nicaragua which has bull sharks in it, you know. We decided to stay a couple of nights and on the first night we treated ourselves to a proper hotel room, air conditioning the works.

After a good nights rest we went out and made some friends...