Nicaragua – Flung

Full Historic Immersion in Granada

Sarah Stodola — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:18:36 +0000

Any arrival to Granada, the city in Nicaragua founded by the Spanish 500 years ago, necessarily happens via road vehicle—there is no airport or train line. As a result, the sensation getting there will be one of happening upon a lost paradise. The hot, dusty countryside seems just the kind that would play host to not much of anything. But then it gives way rather suddenly to a grid of tidy streets flanked to a one by colorful, low-slung buildings […]

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Playa Hermosa Ecolodge: An Elusive Oceanfront Stay in Nicaragua

Sarah Stodola — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:47:47 +0000

For all of its hundreds of miles of exquisite coastline, the Central American country of Nicaragua is curiously lacking in beachfront accommodations for travelers. A little digging makes the reasons clear: Land ownership has been ambiguous ever since the Sandinista revolutionaries expropriated large sections of land in the 1980s, resulting in endless title disputes today. Add to this a sensible national law dictating that no building may be erected within 50 meters of the high tide line, and you’re likely […]

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Shocks of Beauty and Mildew, 50 Meters from the Ocean

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 23:56:30 +0000

I’m lying belly-down on the bed in my hotel room, a place on the beach with a beautiful view but no air conditioning on this, a 90-degree day. And I’m PMS-y as all get out. We arrived at Playa Hermosa on Nicaragua’s west coast this morning, and my feminine condition has left me with no motivation even to walk the 50 meters down to the ocean to cool off. I could get in a cold shower, but then I’d be […]

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