Articles tagged with "Nicaragua"
Nicaragua has three distinct climates inside a country you can cross in a day. Knowing which one you will be standing in matters more than knowing the month.
Nicaragua sits inside a four country agreement that treats the region as one, which means the clock you are on started before you reached the border. The passport rule and the arrival tax are the other two things to settle before you fly.
Nicaragua has a clear dry season and a clear wet one, and unlike most of this region it also has a hurricane season that runs across the second half of the year. Choosing a month means weighing all three.
The Caribbean coast is culturally a separate country from the Pacific side, with Creole English, Miskito and Garifuna heritage and a history that never ran through Granada or Leon.
Granada is the most photographed city in Nicaragua and the one most often described as a World Heritage Site. It is not one. It is on the Tentative List, and the distinction is worth getting right.
Leon holds one of the two Nicaraguan properties on the World Heritage List. The other one is also called Leon, lies 30 km away and was abandoned four centuries ago, and confusing them is the easiest mistake to make here.