Isla de Ometepe

We have reached our 4 months of traveling mark as well as our 5 weeks left mark...

We have also arrived to Nicaragua and just spend 3 nights on the Isla de Ometepe. It´s this really big island in the middle of a really big lake in the southern half of Nicaragua. We spend our first night in this section called Charco Verde where there was a nature reserve where you can walk around and spot some interesting birds and hopefully see monkeys. We did not see any monkeys that day...
Our other two nights were spent in a ¨town¨ called Santa Cruz which we used as a base for our hike up the Volcan Maderas, one of the two volcanos on the island. The hike was pretty difficult but it was actually really enjoyable. We saw a lot of howler and whiteface monkeys and went through some pretty dense rainforest. Weather wise, we lucked out since it was not blazing hot. The crater of volcano now has a lake and a nice patch of grass where we sat and enjoyed our cheese sandwiches. In our hiking group we had our guide named Harold who´s family relocated to Deleware after the civil war in Nicaragua, a Brit, two Canadians, and a Dane. They were a fun group and really excited about everything.
The next day we went to this amazing water hole called Ojo de Agua which is created from the water from that volcano (Maderas) coming up through the rocks. I would except this water the like hot springs but it was actually really cold and really refreshing.
Now we are in Granada which is an old colonial town. We got in this morning at like 5 am from a night ferry across the lake...but luckily the sunrises at 5am so we saw some of the city on our walk to our hostel.