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One of the great things about travelling is randomly coming across little performances and events in the local community.   In the past week in León, I have come across 3 such events, but the biggest by far was the Noches de Mitos y Leyendas in the Central Park in front of the León Cathedral on Saturday

When visiting León, you really can’t miss the world heritage listed Basílica Catedral de la Asunción, better known as the León Cathedral.   It is enormous (it is the largest cathedral in Central America) and located right in the middle of everything with the central plaza facing it. The story goes that this cathedral was originally meant to

There are basically two reasons why travelers come to León – volcano boarding Cerro Negro and the beach at Las Peñitas, about 20km away.  And although I’m not a beach person, Pedro is, so we made a day trip out there while we were in León. The bus left from the Subtiava market (we ended up walking the 20 minutes from central León)

Estelí in northern Nicaragua is a great place to wander around if you are interested in murals and street art.  Although I’d done a fair bit of wandering by myself, I decided to do the mural tour offered by Treehuggers on my last morning in the town.  Juan (from the cigar tour) was my guide

One of the key things I wanted to do while in Estelí was visit Don Alberto Gutiérrez, a bit of a recluse who has spent the last 40 years carving all sorts of designs into the stones on his farm in the Tisey-Estanzuela Nature Reserve just outside of town. Once again, I arranged a day trip through Treehuggers, and

One of Estelí’s claims to fame is that it is the largest cigar producer outside of Cuba.   Cigar manufacturing is the biggest employer in the region and the surroundings are filled with tobacco plantations and really cool looking drying and fermenting sheds that are absolutely enormous!   So, when I found myself with a free

One of the really quirky things about Nicaraguan towns is the direction you are often given to find things you are looking for, like a restaurant you’ve heard about and want to eat at. Although most of the larger towns have proper street names like 1 Avenida NE (1st avenue north-east) and 3 Calle SW (1st street SW) of a

Along with going to the cinema, another of the things I love to do when travelling is to experience different massages.    Last time I was in Nicaragua, I had one of the weirdest massages ever.  The pummeling that usually heralds the end of a massage – well that was the entire massage.  For an