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22
Mar
2009
Goodnight Nicaragua y Costa Rica
The thing with journeys is they pretty much all end. Obviously Nicaragua and Costa Rica ended months ago now. But I carry these trips with me for awhile longer as I pour through the photos, editing and culling the ones that I most want to share. And in the process, reliving the moments, remembering new friends, recalling all those little moments of connection with the larger world that made me go and made me sorry to leave.
This is my way, of course, to say that the Costa Rica and Nicaragua album is complete. It’s filled up with memories that I hope you enjoy and maybe it will encourage someone else to make the leap to leave their warm cozy beds and see a little more of this wide world.
Masaya Mercado
This was where we had lunch on our last day in Granada, a little market near Masaya Volcano. Although you saw tons of locals, the market was filled with trinkets for tourists. It’s actually an old market but it was destroyed during the war in Nicaragua in the 70’s and 80’s and was recently resurrected.
Granada Cementerio
Having seen the main cemetery in Granada twice from a van, I had to find my way back to it one afternoon before we left. I didn’t have nearly enough time to really take it all in. If you’re ever there and the least bit into cemeteries, check it out, it will not fail to amaze.
I also had to check out what I was told was the oldest church in Granada before I left, and I just made it there at dusk.
Dusk at Iglesia de San Francisco
The colors were very nice especially against the dusk sky…
Judy Wants A Close Up
Judy was pretty much a pet. She flew free but she knew that Daniel and Olivia who ran the eco lodge would feed her and take care of her. We had been watching her and Olivia got her down for us for some close up shots from the paparazzi. Solentiname was a beautiful and challenging place. I definitely saw that I could only live without some of the western basics for so long while staying here, but I still look back on it happily as a very cool life experience. Why is it so often that those are the experiences we wouldn’t be so keen on repeating??
Things to do while on Solentiname
Tranquility - Sunsets over Solentiname
Goodnight Nicaragua!
After leaving Nicaragua, we had two nights in La Fortuna and then a final night after a late arrival into San Jose. Believe it or not, I hardly took any photos. After a week in Nicaragua, a gorgeous place with some truly nice people, La Fortuna seemed so touristy that I just didn’t see anything I wanted to shoot. Instead, I did a canopy tour and soaked in the hot springs at Baldi every chance I got! I basically did the bum thing for two days before the long drive to San Jose and the early morning rise to the airport. Still here’s a shot of one of our group, Chrysta Brown, a photographer, who bungee jumped and the most photographed church in Costa Rica (apparently because of the volcano behind it).
Chrysta Jumping!
Iglesia de la Fortuna y Arenal
There’s a ton more of course, but that’s all in the album for the adventurous ones to hunt through. I’ve no idea where the wind will take me next but it it’s even half as much fun as this trip was, I’ll be a happy camper.
