Costa Rica || First Impressions
Columbus, on his 4th voyage to the New World in 1502, named the stretch of coastline north of Panama & south of Nicaragua la costa rica (the rich coast). Nobody has come up with anything better since so the name has stuck. Famous for rain forests (& the...
San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, Central America
Colonial towns. Lakes. Volcanoes. Photogenic colonial towns, lakes & volcanoes even. So far I’ve had them all in Nicaragua. All that was missing was a beach and for a country with both Caribbean & Pacific coasts that’s a pretty big omission. So, I...
Isla de la Ometepe, Nicaragua
I’ve just spent two nights in solitude on the slopes of a volcano on Ilsa de la Ometepe, Nicaragua’s ecological jewel, a small hourglass-shaped island in Lago de Nicaragua (Lake Nicaragua), Central America’s largest lake. You won’t find any...
Granada, Nicaragua, Central America
Granada, Nicaragua The Photogenic Oldest Colonial City In Mainland America Cathedral de Granada. Granada, Nicaragua. June 18, 2013 ; Granada was founded in 1524 making it the oldest Colonial city in mainland America (it was founded 26 years after Santo Domingo in...
Managua, Nicaragua, Central America
I was initially only planning on passing through Managua, the Nicaraguan capital & Central America’s fourth largest city, en route elsewhere. It is located midway between Leon, from where I came, & Granada, from where I’m heading, having been founded in...
Cockfighting, Nicaragua
The brutal blood sport of Gamecock fighting in Leon, Nicaragua. Dating back 6000 years, it’ s said to be the world’s oldest spectator sport.
Leon, Nicaragua, Central America
It didn’t take long to blow the Honduran dust off my camera. Leon, one of two legendary cultured Spanish colonial jewels in Nicaragua, is a pretty & vibrant city full of history & churches. After suffering through something of a photography lull for the...
Lago De Yojoa & Tegucigalpa, Honduras
I came to Honduras hoping it to be different. It was different alright. Ten days I spent in the country, good for nine sleeps, probably more time than I should have afforded to Central American country number 4. Looking back I spent some or most of seven of the ten...