Friday, May 24, 2013

Checking out Leon

Up early, like 6:30. So much for sleeping in! Free breakfast is included at the hostal. We walked around a bit then, dad headed to a Claro store to get internet on his phone/hotspot. That took over an hour.

Then to Tierra Tours to checkout their offerings. Booked a half-day city tour for 2:00pm this afternoon, and a the Telica twilight tour for tomorrow that includes a hike up to an active volcano to hopefully see magma bubbling. I want to to volcano boarding as well.

We had lunch at ViaVia, then back to the hostal to get picked up for our city tour.

The city tour was 3 hours long, we went to Sutiaba, an indigineous neighbourhood, then to the main cathedral, including going to the rooftop, then to the Musem of Myths and Legends, and we learned all about Nicaragua history, including the dictatorships of the mid-1900s and the civil war of the 1970's and 80's.

Back to the hostal and did journal stuff. Headed to a restaurant called Carnivoro for supper. Great restaurant, higher class service and presentation, but the price isn't terribly expensive.

There's a couple at our hostal travelling with a tiny chihuahua dog. She carries it wherever they go.

Met three girls at the hostal, two from Holland and one from the U.S. Two of them are doing volcano boarding tomorrow, the third one might do it on Monday.

As we were walking around, a store had shut down a street and hired some famous Nicaraguan singer to do a show on the street, including four hot chicks in skimpy outfits gyrating to a crowd of many hundreds of locals, all cheering when the girls did sexy dance moves. Pretty hilarious stuff.

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