Now, finally the last leg of our tour of Nicaragua was to the city of Granada. I was most excited about going to a place named after my beloved Granada. It was a nice small city that used to fight for control of the country with León.
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| Catedral de Granada |
Paulina and I went a day earlier than the rest of the crew because we preferred to see more cultural sites than relaxing at a lagoon. Our friend Michelle came along too because she wasn´t feeling well and needed to see a doctor.
Once in Granada we settled in and took our own tour of the city. We went to the Poets´ Park and the old train station, then we went off to explore the old hospital, the military fort that we couldn´t enter and the churches and other cultural parts of the city.
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| Old Hospital |
The following day we finished our tour and saw the last few sights we hadn´t seen the day before and then took a boat tour of the Isletas de Granada (small islands near Granada in the Lake of Nicaragua). It was a fun hour long tour that included seeing isletas that had houses, bars and one isleta that was only inhabited by monkeys that a vet had brought there years before. There were the white faced capuchín monkeys and spider monkeys. When our tour ended we returned to the shore as the next group got on. This group contained 2 strangers, one of my 6th graders, his brother in 2nd grade and their parents.
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| Isletas |
After the boat tour we met up with the rest of the group, took an official tour of the city, had dinner and in the morning we returned to Monteverde!
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| Xateva and La Maria Churches |
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