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Almost Accurate Nicaraguan History Lesson, Anyone?

"Isla de Ometepe"

Picture by Graham Perkins

Nicaragua Picture by Skillful wayfarer Graham Perkins
Travel story: Almost Accurate Nicaraguan History Lesson, Anyone?

So... a bus, a bike-taxi thing and another bus later and we were in Nicaragua, a fascinating and lovely country with possibly the most interesting history of any country I've visited so far. A nation of proud, friendly people this place felt undeniably safer than many of its neighbours. This, despite me reading that, after Haiti, here is the poorest country in the western hemisphere.

The two main cities founded when the Spaniards came a-rapin' and a-pillagin' were... More

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