Nicaragua with my M6

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Adrian, I really like how you challenge yourself and the direction you are going with your photography. Nice work. 7 and 13 are the stars in my book.
 
Sofa King, great people shots. I visited Nicaragua this summer (brought dSLR, next time will be a film trip). I loved the people and the beaches. Where did you go? Do you have more images coming?
 
I flew into Managua and went straight to Leon for a few days. After that we went to Esteli in the northern highlands for a day. I then went to the Miraflor Nature Reserve which is near Esteli in the Northern Highlands. It's a farming commune and absolutely one of the most beautiful places I've seen. Best food (grown and cooked by the family we stayed with) I had on the whole trip as well. Lots of mosquitos though. After Miraflor I went to Granada for a day which was very underwhelming. In Granada I saw the biggest distinction betweeen rich and poor. There were five star(?) hotels blocks away from absolute slums. It was very touristy. From there we went to Rivas and took a ferry from Rivas to Ometepe. We stayed on the smaller of the two volcanoes (can't remember if Asuncion of Concepcion is the smaller) at another cooperative farming operation. I stayed there for two days and then decided to meet my surfer friend on the beach. I headed back to Rivas and took a taxi to a beach called Popoyo. We stayed in the small town right off the beach called Guasacate which is not on most maps. The closest place that shows up on most maps would be Las Salinas. It's north of San Juan del Sur. Again one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. Picturesque beaches with the most amazing sunsets and thunder and lightning storms after dark. Every night the power went out because the lines were not on regular poles. They were strung along tree branches instead. However, this is the point at which I stopped taking photos because I wasn't interested in photographs of surfers or beaches. Anyway, we stayed there a few days and then spent an entire day getting back to Granada to sleep, then to Laguna de Apoyo for our final day. We made a day trip to the market in Masaya and then flew back out of Managua the next day.

I loved Nicaragua and can fully understand why I met so many Canadian and American expatriates (mostly in Leon). The people there are the most friendly people I have ever met. I never once felt threatened despite the strong national disdain for the United States. I would love to go back.

What was your experience like, Mich?
 
we spent most of our time near San Juan del Sur where my cousin has just opened a tiny resort called Las Mañanitas (there are only two cottages). We explored the nearby beaches, including Pie de Gigante which I believe is near Guasacate. We had a car and quickly became part of the public transportation system with young and old signaling for rides. Neither my wife nor I speak Spanish, yet we still managed to have small conversations with all our passengers. The state of the roads helped us restrict our travel quite a bit. The only overnight excursion we did was to Granada which we enjoyed. I had the best steak I have ever had at a little restaurant in town. We went up Mombacho volcano for the cloud forest and promised ourselves that next time we would overnight at the shelter at the top. We weren't thrilled with Masaya and its market, maybe it had to do with the incessant multilingual pushy "tour guides" and "parking attendants". Catarina, near Laguna de Apoyo, was a treat. The whole town is like a giant nursery.

Next trip we will visit some part of the north, before heading to San Juan del Sur again. I love the fact that some maps show roads that aren't there and misses others that are. Adds to the sense of adventure!
 
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