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Greytown Journal: Camp Harbour Head holds the line
GREYTOWN, Nicaragua—Deep in the jungle on a marshy riverbank that’s contentiously close to the Costa Rican border, the Nicaraguan government has created a Sandinista sleepaway camp for teens interested...
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Tobacco tourism in Esteli
ESTELÍ—Atop the Tisey mirador, looking west, I lean into a burly Pacific breeze blowing in over an ocean of rolling hills. Barely visible on the horizon, several cone-shaped volcanoes remind me that...
View ArticleBlue Panorama says ‘arrivederci’ to Nicaragua
I was excited to read in the July 10 edition of The Nicaragua Dispatch that Blue Panorama had started a new flight from Managua to Rome—the country’s only non-stop flight to Europe, and at a decent...
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Ometepe: a wild island, a wild ride
Any traveler who has ever set foot on the strikingly surreal island of Ometepe knows all too well the trials and tribulations of the journey to get there. This is especially true if your goal was an...
View ArticleNicaragua should aim higher than safest country in Central America
Editorial. Nicaragua, it seems, has had an image problem for as long as it has had an image. Part of Nicaragua’s eternal public-relations predicament is a monster of its own making, while the other...
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Greytown Journal: tourism breathes new life into old ghost town
GREYTOWN—In the outermost reaches of the Nicaragua’s southern jungle frontier, on an alluvial headland overlooking the mouth of the mesmerizing Río San Juan, an international group of ecotourism...
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Adventures in cacao country
Sure, I really like chocolate, who doesn’t? But for me, a trip to the northern reaches of Nicaragua was just a chance to explore some unfamiliar countryside and shake off the heat-induced ennui that...
View ArticleHas Nicaragua gone mainstream?
Editorial. After years of budding tourism growth, Nicaragua is suddenly coming into bloom as the new darling of the mainstream travel industry from New York to London. In the past few months, Nicaragua...
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The things they carry—backpackers then and now
Volcán Concepción dominates the entire northern end of the island. It rises dramatically out of the lake, conjuring those iconic images of Mt. Fuji, but with a cotton candy tuft of cloud permanently...
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5 tips for crossing the border by bus
Opinion. Slip off the shoes, whip out the plastic bag of 3.4-oz. toiletries, isolate the laptop in the bin, chug the last of the liquids, and pray to the TSA gods that it’s not your turn for a patdown....
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Eco-farm tourism brings economic boost to coffee country
Coffee country is becoming a new tourism attraction in Nicaragua (photo/ Tim Rogers) MATAGALPA—In the crisp, verdant hills of northern Nicaragua, coffee production has not only pinned Nicaragua on the...
View ArticleNicaragua designates Corn Islands as tourism patrimony
Nicaragua lawmakers have designated the Corn Islands as “National Tourism Patrimony”– a classification that, in theory, will coordinate national and regional government institutions to promote...
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