Adventures from last weekend!
Laguna de Apoyo is a beautiful swimming laguna inside a crater. It is thermally heated and, from what I've heard, is the best and cleanest place to swim around Granada. It was pretty awesome. A very relaxing place where you can just lounge on the beach with locals and, when you're not sipping water, sip on an iced cold Tona (Ton-ya, with an accent over the n), the most popular Nicaraguan beer, for just over $1.
I also hiked Volcan Mombacho. Long, hot day but so glad I did it and got out of the house all day. I went with another volunteer and it took us a good 2.5 hours to hike up (taking many necessary breaks). At the top we chugged PowerAde and then did about an hour long loop around a very jungle-like, lush, green crater. It then took us another good two hours to climb back down. About halfway up, there was a coffee farm which gave out free samples. (They also filled up your water bottle for free which was extremely necessary.) Needless to say, we stopped both ways to fuel up.
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| Clemson shout out. |
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| Another (active) volcano in the distance. |
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| This dirty guy crossed our path on the way out. |
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