Our first morning in Nicaragua we enjoyed breakfast at our hotel, chatted some more with the Spanish family we’d met the night before, converted some currency and bought a local cell phone at the airport, then took a long cab ride to the bus station.
The first city on our itinerary was the colonial city of Leon. There are two kinds of public transit in Nicaragua, express buses and chicken buses. Express buses cost a little more than a chicken bus, but you get a seat, and they travel directly between cities. They are 12-15 passenger vans that leave when they’re full, and as soon as one bus leaves another one is ready to take its place at the bus station and start filling up with passengers. Continue reading “Nicaragua Day 1: Leon”