Beautiful place really with a nice bar, landscaped grounds, nice rooms.
Hotel Los Volcanes
But, apparently everything in Nicaragua must take forever. Checking out was almost as long as crossing the border....five sheets of paper, each requiring a signature, then each was stamped twice by the clerk (they are very big on stamps down here).
More abominable roads en route to Granada, passed along the margins of the capital city, Managua, but managed to use the GPS for a change to avoid getting too lost in this city of 1.6 million.
Granada is a very scenic, Old Spanish-style resort town on the shores of Lake Nicaragua - the only lake in the world with freshwater sharks. Many classic style homes with interior courtyards and gardens, a city plaza which we parked across from and enjoyed capuchinos on the veranda
of a very swank hotel, Horse-drawn carriages for the tourists (lots of American voices) complete the Old World ambience.
Jogi talked about staying on the beach at San Juan, but I was unprepared for the horrible (even by Nicaraguan standards) road in. Mostly a dirt road with infrequent sections of washed out, potholed pavement, numerous detours as the road is "under construction" across mud, sand and gravel. Road dead ends at the lovely coastal village of San Juan.
Hotel Casa Blanca in San Juan
.........worth the trip. Staying at a great little place right on the beach with intern et, included breakfast, air conditioning.
Tomorrow the journey semi-officially ends at Jogi's house in Tamarindo on the northern coast of Costa Rica. We'll get the bikes registered in the next few days, and then I will ride to Esterillos, take care of numerous things, store the bike and hang out. I'll probably post a few more blogs once there.
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