Nicaragua Ometepe Island

Nicaragua Ometepe Island

Moved onto Rives which once was considered as a rival for the Panama Canal. The land here is only 40 kms wide from the huge Lake Nicaragua to the Pacific and there is a navigable river from the Caribbean Sea. So the lake was really rough from the strong wind and we took the bigger ferry across to Ometepe Island formed when an isthmus joined 2 monster volcanoes. The most impressive is Concepsion and we climbed half way up the other one the next day to get a great view back to it. There were some howler monkeys on the hard walk to this view point and we later saw some white face monkeys as well. There is also a really nice spring where you can relax after the climb. There are also some petroglyphs from a thousand years ago, reminders of a grander past.

Two nights here and then we moved on to the very old and grand Granada back on the mainland and north a bit.