On Saturday morning we took a journey to the Costa Rica - Nicaragua boarder, crossed the boarder on foot with our bags and took another van to León, Nicaragua. León was beautiful. It had most of the things I think every city should have, including kebabs!
León is a beautiful despite all turmoil they have seen over the last few decades. It was a lot of fun to walk around León because we could see a lot of their history in their statues and churches.
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| Cathedral in León |
The cathedral was a lot of fun because there were a series a paintings depicting Jesus´ struggles, death and resurrection. When we went on a city tour we got to go to the top of the cathedral, climb around and see the entire city.
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| View from our hike of volcanic ash and the lowlands between volcanoes |
In and around León and the rest of Nicaragua there are over twenty volcanoes (and I thought Costa Rica had a lot!). As a group we took a journey to one of the youngest volcanoes and went "volcano boarding" which is similar to sledding on a toboggan on volcanic ash instead of snow. We went, along with some people from The Netherlands and Australia. We took nearly an hour hike up the volcano, put on orange jumpsuits (but I got a blue one for some reason). 2 by 2 we took off and down we went. It was fun, much faster that I felt I needed to go, and we got a lot of rocks thrown into our faces, but I would recommend it to anyone. Below is a picture of someone from our group going down at about 30km/hr (18mph)
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