Birds of La Mariposa – Nicaragua Fauna
Some more pictures of wildlife taken from the patio where we eat our meals at La Mariposa Spanish School and Eco Hotel. Apart from the Blue-Crowned Motmot, we also have the following regular visitors:




Some more pictures of wildlife taken from the patio where we eat our meals at La Mariposa Spanish School and Eco Hotel. Apart from the Blue-Crowned Motmot, we also have the following regular visitors:




I mentioned in my post about surviving a chicken bus trip that Nicaraguan bus drivers have a soft spot for either latin romantica or 80’s power ballads. To give you an indication of what I’m talking about, here’s the actual playlist for the 2 hour bus trip from Rivas to Managua (yes, I sat…
There are no Easter Eggs in Nicaragua… Nor hot-cross buns. However, there is an overabundance of Semana Santa Processions (Holy Week Parades) and Easter is much, much more than an excuse to eat far too much chocolate and bread-and-buttery goodness. There have been parades all week, but the main parades tend to occur on Viernes…
After catching many glimpses over the past weeks, I finally had a wonderful view of a Guardabarranco, the national bird of Nicaragua, this morning. It was just outside my bedroom window at La Mariposa Spanish School and EcoHotel and I managed to get a fairly good picture of it (see below on the right). Many…
First port of call on the Río San Juan was the La Esquina del Lago Jungle River Lodge for a few days. It’s located in the Los Guatuzos Nature Reserve and although it is one of the key fishing lodges in the area, it also offers some other interesting options as well. The Lodge is just across the river…
Just as we thought that our run of great weather had come to an end, the wind dropped and we were actually able to disembark for our first excursion of the day at West Point Island in the Falkland Islands. When we arrived at the entrance to this point during the night, the winds were…
The Finca Esperanza Verde is actually a working organic coffee farm and this time around I arrived right at the end of the flowering season. Each of those little green nodules that are left once the flower has finished will turn into a coffee bean. The last time I was here, I did the coffee processing…