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Six Picks: Colonial towns and volcanoes in Nicaragua

03 Saturday Jan 2015

Posted by Tim Bird in art, Central America, culture, geology, Travel, travel photography

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Central America, colonial architecture, festival, Granada, Leon, Nicaragua, volcano, volcanoes

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A few years ago I had an obsession with volcanoes. Or rather, my continuing obsession with volcanoes manifested itself in the form of several visits to Central America, to Guatemala, Costa Rica and Honduras, for example. One of those visits was to Nicaragua where I did managed to gaze, Frodo-like, into some ominously smoking volcanic craters. More of those later, but here is a quick New Year re-visit to the lakeside colonial gems of Leon and Granada, and a glimpse of one smoking vent.

Happy New Year, Six Picks visitor!

Street mural commemorating the July 23, 1959 massacre of slaughters in Leon.

Street mural commemorating the July 23, 1959 massacre of slaughters in Leon.

Street scene from the bell tower in Granada

Street scene from the bell tower in Granada

Firework celebrations in the square at Leon

Firework celebrations in the square at Leon

My guide, Jesus, took me to the mountain. Here he is peering in to the smouldering crater of the Telica volcano.

My guide, Jesus, took me to the mountain. Here he is peering dangerously into the smouldering crater of the Telica volcano.

Festival procession makes its way to the cathedral square in Leon.

Festival procession makes its way to the cathedral square in Leon.

Granada residents taking it easy

Granada residents taking it easy

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Six Picks: Tribute to Costa Rica from an Englishman

21 Saturday Jun 2014

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Arenal, beaches, Central America, cloud forest, Costa Rica, football, iguana, Manuel Antonio National Park, Monteverde, Pura Vida, sloth, Tico, tree frog, volcano, wildlife, World Cup

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One of the best things about Costa Rica in Central America is that it doesn’t have an army. It has a surprisingly good football team, though, and they’ve just sealed the fate of my national team, England, by beating Italy. Thank you, Costa Rica, for getting the pain out of the way sooner rather than later.

Costa Rica has a lot more going for it than just a decent football team. The abundant concentration of wildlife in a relatively small area and the ease with which visitors can witness it are unequalled pretty much anywhere. It has Caribbean and Pacific shores, clean sandy beaches, surf, cool cloud forests, clammy jungles, volcanoes and friendly, easy-going people, known as Ticos, whose motto – Pura vida! – meaning literally “pure life” but is used as an all-round greeting and positive exclamation, sums up a smiling and gently upbeat fatalism.

Here is a pictorial tribute in six visual highlights:

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Three-toed sloth in the Manuel Antonio National Park on Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast. These astonishing tree-dwelling creatures sleep between 15 and 20 hours a day and have extra vertebrae in their necks, so they can turn their heads more than 250 degrees.

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Humming bird on the edge of the Monteverde Cloud Forest. Fifty-four species of humming bird have been identified in Costa Rica.

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The “Iguana Tree” near Fortuna is just off the main road and provides guaranteed sightings of these fabulous reptiles.

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Pura Vida! The friendly face of Costa Rica – a cheerful Tico.

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The active Arenal volcano and surrounding countryside.

ImageA red-eyed tree frog at the La Paz Waterfall Gardens.

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