Lots have happened since my last post – time has just flown by and it is now my last day in Nicaragua before heading home to the cold north.

We spend Christmas on Little Corn Island, one of two islands located on the Caribbean side of Nicaragua, about 70 km off shore. Little Corn is, as the name refers, the smaller of the two islands and much less touristy and crowded. It was a lovely little paradise with lots of lobster and a completely different side to Nicaragua, which was great to experience. On Christmas eve we had a surf’n’turf dinner with Lise and Jessica, two girls Malene met in Antigua. After dinner we met up with me and Malene’s bungalow-neighbours, Martin and Anja, two danes living in Managua. We drank all the rum’n’coke we had and afterwards partied the night away in the one of the bars on the island.
Unfortunately, the weather was bad (rain and wind) the whole time we were there and it got worse the day we were supposed to go back to the big island to fly back to Managua. No boats were going so we ended up missing our flight! Luckily for us, the freight ship arrived that day (it comes once a week!) and we could sail with that back to the big island and get a flight the next morning.

We then spend two days in Granada, one with just seeing the city and all its churches, and one going to the nearby volcano Mombacho.

Malene at Parque Central in Granada

This is biggest cathedral in Central America

View of Granada with the cathedral from Iglesia la Merced

View of Granada from Iglesia la Merced

Me and Malene on top of Iglesia la Merced

Viewpoint on Volcan Mombacho

View from the top of volcan Mombacho

View of Granada city from volcan Mombacho

View of Las Isletas from volcan Mombacho

Coffee plants

Coffee beans

Roasting coffee beans

Roasting coffee beans

The finished coffee

Then we headed to San Juan del Sur where we enjoyed the beaches and celebrated the new year. One of the nights we went to Wildlife Reserve La Flor, where we saw several sea turtles digging nests in the sand and laying their eggs there – it was an amazing experience!

Playa Maderas

Malene, Anna and me partying on new years eve

The beach in San Juan del Sur

The beach in San Juan del Sur

The sun is setting on the first day of the new year

San Juan del Sur

Standing in a circle watching the turtle nesting

The turtle laying its eggs in the nest

The nest with the turtle eggs

Holding one of the eggs

Malene holding two of the eggs

After the turtle has dropped all her eggs, she buries them in the sand and leaves

The turtle is back in the water. Of one thousand eggs, only one will make it to adulthood

They keep a schedule of how many turtles visits and are born each yea

A little turtle baby

More turtle babies

Playa Remonso

Playa Remonso

Playa Remonso

Playa Remonso

After San Juan we spend 4 days on Isla de Ometepe, an island formed by two volcanoes right in the middle of the biggest lake in Central America. Here we spend a day kayaking to Rio Istiam and the other days we rented mountain bikes, exploring the island on wheels.

The ferry to Ometepe, with the island in the background

A view of Ometepe with volcan Conceptión to the left and Maderas to the right

Volcan Conceptión

Rio Istián

Rio Istián

Rio Istián

Rio Istián

Rio Istián

Rio Istián

Rio Istián

A howler monkey

Rio Istián with volcan Maderas in the background

San Rámon waterfall

San Rámon waterfall

Volcan Conceptión

Banana plantation

Banana plantation

We are now back in Granada enjoying my last days here in Nicaragua. Yesterday we went to the big maket in Masaya and today we’re going to Laguna de Apoyo, a crater lake just north of Granada, so I can spend my last day here relaxing and enjoying the sun 🙂