Granada

We arrived in Granada on Saturday, Jan. 16. We found a hostel to stay in. It´s a old converted colonial house, that used to be a school and is now a hostel. Our room is huge, with a high ceiling but no bathroom, which is fine as the communal bathroom isn´t so bad.

Saturday we just walked around the town, getting family with the layout. Hit up the bell tower of one of the big old churches for a view of the city rooftops. Went to the market and was bombarded with merchants selling their wares. We bought our first ripe mangoes, they were super tiny but delicious. At night we hit a couple of different restaurants around the central plaza, having drinks and appys at each. We headed back to the hostel at the usual time for us, around 9pm (yeah, lame we know) and read our books before calling it a night.

Today we walked down to the lake front and inquired about boats to Isla Ometepe. We`re going there tomorrow. We had vendor hot dogs for breakfast and waffles and coffee for lunch. We`re going on a tour today that takes us to a big artesan market then up an active volcano. We`re going at night so we can see the lava light up the sky.

The sunburn on my face is peeling like crazy. Eeesh! Oh well, not bad that I got my first sunburn bad face burn moer than 2 months into the trip. Can`t wait to see the volcano. We`ll be seeing a few more on Isla Ometepe, it´s an island made up of 2 volcanoes in the middle of Lake Nicaragua.