September 2011
Marc, Alex, and I visited Marc’s father and step-mother at their house in Nicaragua. (Madeline visited at a different time.) They were directly involved in the design and construction of this beautiful house overlooking Laguna de Apoyo (near Granada). I start out by showing several photos of their house, a wonderful get-away by itself, followed by sightseeing photos.
Nearby Granada
Tile factory
Lunch at a restaurant overlooking Laguna de Apoyo. (Alex looks pretty rough in most of our Nicaragua pics because he was sick with a fever while there. It actually took us a while to figure out that he was sick and not just hot and grumpy! He probably picked it up on the flight.)
Nursery
The town of San Juan de Oriente specializes in ceramics
Back at the house
Road trip to Ometepe Island
We stayed at Hacienda Merida
Then off to the San Juan del Sur area
We stayed at Lug’s Place
This is Lug
A visit to the community of Comarcas de la Laguna de Apoyo that my inlaws have been working with for many years
https://www.comarcasapoyo.org/comarcas-de-la-laguna-english
Mombacho Volcano Nature Reserve. We were driven up the VERY steep mountain road in this truck.
The coffee plantation, Café Las Flores, was a stop on the way up
We hiked the 1 kilometer “Crater Trail” through the cloud forest
On the lookout for monkeys
Spider monkeys!
Steam vent
Dona Elba Cigars. Address: 1/2 Block South of Xalteva Church, Granada, Nicaragua. That’s how the addresses work here.
Resting at Hotel Dario in Granada
Modern subsidized? housing going up
The road to the house
Tio Antonio Hamaca in Granada. Occupational workshop/store that hires disabled workers to make hammocks. Many of the workers are deaf.
