For my mothers stay we are planning to travel around as much as we can! Since Troels needed a new stamp in his passport, and I want to see as much of the world as I can, we decided to make a trip to Nicaragua. We took a bus from San José to Rivas in Nicaragua. This was an 8 hour bus ride, but the bus was comfortable and it almost felt like a flight. We got a taxi to San Jorge where we cought the ferry over Lago Nicaragua for Isla de Ometepe! Isla de Ometepe has two volcanoes, Volcán Concepción and Volcán Maderas.
We arrived Isla de Ometepe when it was dark so we just found a hostel to stay at for the night. Plans were made for our stay on the island, and the next morning we went to Charco Verde, a lagoon in the middle of the two volcanoes. From the lagoon you can see Volcán Concepción.
While walking around the lagoon there is a little trail leading to a beach where we could swim in the lake. Here we could also get a view of Volcán Maderas.
Continuing around the lagoon there was a viewpoint where we could get a view of the lagoon form higher grounds.
After our hike around the laggon we cought a bus for Moyogalpa, a city further north on the island.
This was the only city on the island where we could find an ATM. Walking down the street was nice and calm with few tourist. The people here were very kind and would just stop us and ask where we were from, and wish us a nice travel.
We also grabbed some good nicaraguan food here before we jumped on an even more crowded bus back to San José del Sur where we were living.
On the way we would pick up even more people!
So many that people would have to stand outside and hold on to the bus.
When we got back to our hostel we decided to stay in and relax because the next morning we would hike to the top of Volcán Concepción (1610 meters). The bottom of the volcano started out with a hike trough dense forest.
After ascending the first 1000 meters we reached the end of vegetation!
From here we had a great view of the western side of the volcano, and we could see across the lake.
We still had 610 meters to go, but before continuing we had a little rest, ate some cookies and fruit for extra energy up the rocks, and of course I had to do some gymnastics!
The last part was really challenging, steep and rocky. If we stepped wrong on a lose rock it would roll down and everybody behind would have to jump to the side. On the trip up we met another group hiking, and we ended up hiking together with them. We were a few that got separated from the guides, and at a point we had no idea where it was safe to ascent. Luckily there was another guide that cought up with us and followed us to the top. Finally we made it to the top!
It was a tough hike, but it was totally worth it! We got an amazing and unique experience and we met some great people from the other group that I ended up meeting again in San José (Costa Rica) at a later time.
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