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As I wrote after we arrived to Nicaragua and met Aida and Oscar we had a nice dinner in a local restaurant. The food is just wow!! I love every piece of it. The best is the fried cheese and the fried plantain (banana type used for cooking) and any kinds of meat. I also like the Tona Nicaraguan beer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tona_(beer)).
After this we traveled to Leon and checked in the hotel. After couple minutes Jeffrey came and said: "Check your luggage, we just found a scorpion on my hat." The hat was on his head all times on the plane. The big question was how it got there? We have been told that this kind of scorpion does not live in that part of Nicaragua. It came from the Bahamas, but how? Anyway we checked our luggage and found nothing.
After this I pulled down my shoes and saw the red line is coming up on my right foot. Holy sh*t! It was around 2 in the morning and i just got blood infection. Nice, you can die in it. So I told Jeffrey and Alley that we have to do something. It is serious. Oscar is a medical doctor and he came to see my wound. I was freaked out:) and wanted to get a tetanus for sure. After half an hour he calmed me down arguing that there is no need for tetanus just a local antibiotics. I said ok, but didn't sleep well at all:) On the next morning it almost disappeared. The wound came from a coral reef that hurt my foot and in the salt water it couldn't heal so it got bigger, nastier and finally the blood infection:)
I also got bitten by a big myriapoda: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriapoda, the mandible (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandible_(arthropod)) was 1.5 cm wide, around half inch wide. It must have been big. I was sleeping and on the next morning I felt my head dizzy and I looked at my right fist and at my thumb it was all swelled. And I pointed out the two leaking holes on my finger. I supposed a big spider bit me. Angela told me it was probably a huge myriapoda. It was not a great feeling to realize that something bit me while I was sleeping in my bed. We had no other incident with insects. You really got to be careful on a remote island which is 2 hours away from the nearest hospital by plane.
So anyway after the first night we started discovering Nicaragua!
First night dinner with Oscar and Aida
Changing money at a certified moving ATM and exchange office. He legally worked for the bank and carried a ton of cash on him. He said never had any problem, he has been taking care of:)
Cordobas
On the way to Granada we saw people selling Iguana for 1$ and tatu for 2$
Holding my first tatu:)
This is how people are selling wild-caught animals on the road
This is another fantastic invention: mobile-jail
Hilarious!
Volcan Mombacho with our guide, it was the steepest road I've ever gone. Four wheel drive was struggling to go up there.
On the peak
This is Lake Granada and all the islands are part of the blown-up peak of the volcano.
I used to give this flower to my mom and now I saw it in its original climate.
72 different species grow on this one tree. Amazing!
The whole mountain split and we were walking through it.
This is a tarantella hole
This is a sulfur fumarole showing that it was an active volcano some days
Here is sloth
Sloth and us:)
Flora is at Cafe Las Flores
Jeffrey and Flora
Flora and me
The girls:)
On the way to Mombacho people are so poor. They live in very modest conditions, however, they were the happiest people I bet.
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Traveling local
In Masaya we visited the biggest hammock factory where blind or other disabled people make the hammocks.
This is the world recorder hammock, it can fit 27 people
With our hammock for two people! So cool! So comfortable!
Jeffrey and Alley in their hammock
This is it! Outside two guys came to us and said "Buy hammock", i asked them about the price they said $10. It was made of nylon, i doubt it is strong enough the one guy challenged me if i can tear the line i can have the hammock for free. I was up to it and tore the line.:) I said, give me the hammock he refused and i told him not to play such a game. Then I said i pay $5 per piece he refused, i said ok and left with the car, they were running after us and shouting okay, okay! I bought two hammocks through the window. It felt great!
This is the hotel in Leon.
with a nice pool
We were also climbing Cerro Negro
It is an active volcano the last eruption was three months ago.
Iguana farm
lots of them
On old cowboy was cooking something and we visited his kitchen
like this
thank you!
Tailoring the famous Nicaraguan chair
The Cerro Negro
Going up
it was ridiculously steep
we made it!
climbing on the ring
on the top, the rocks were super hot and smoke was coming out of it
Flora is sitting on the top
I am sitting on the top
Jeff and I are standing on the top
Flora and Bence
too small
running down on the side in the ash
very steep
extremely steep
:)
the dust line
market in Jinotega
the hotel in Jinotega which is the coffee capital of Nicaragua
Jinotega
Pancho or Chicko our driver 24/7
the hotel garden
at the first coffee trader and roaster
local banana
"all in one hand" as they said:)
Jinotega main street
morning view
nice
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jinotega cathedral
this is how kids learn about aggregation
where the next saint is going to be
he is on the long way to become a saint
with kids
on their donkey or horse
going to the Kilimanjaro coffee farm
with the coffee bush
Flora is with the coffee
They plant banana trees among the coffee rows to provide shade
just arrived
"We can host small group of tourists."
kitchen
banana1
banana2
kitchen2
kitchen3
kitchen4
parrow
kitchen5
kitchen6
checking out the entire processing flow of coffee cleaning
row beans - so called golden beans
Flora with the coffee
they use water mill to produce electricity
parrow2
parrow3
the delicious food, the plantain was the best
before the horseride
on the horseride
I had trouble with my horse. It wanted to die out below me. Sometimes it stopped and didn't want to move, etc. I did not feel so great on the horse:)
the little pond
and the sledge
:)
with the boss
with the little boss
Everybody!
market1
market2
drinking local strawberry-like ugly drink
beautiful young girl
Jeffrey is calling international for a business meeting:)
cool cheese stand!
Smirnoff is there also
Buying food from the street. It was yummy.
Bence and the horse
Sliding down
Flora is running down on the Cerro Negro
Flora ziplining
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