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WALKING BETWEEN LAKES, VOLCANOS, JUNGLE AND COLONIAL CITIES. (14 days)

It includes a 14 days route (13 nights) for Managua, Masaya, Granada, León, Hervideros de San Jacinto, Ruta del Café, Matagalpa, Río San Juan, San Carlos, Solentiname, Río Papaturro, Los Guatuzos, El Castillo.

PRICE:

From $ 1550/ 1240€ (taxes included).

DEPARTURE DATES (the journey start in Managua):
16th June; 1st July; 15th July; 2nd August; 16th August. Consult another dates.

• We have extensions of stay and tours in the Nicaraguan Caribbean:

Corn Island, Pacific Coast, and Laguna de Perlas

DAY 1

Welcome in Managua's airport. Transfer and accommodation in Managua.

DAY 2

Breakfast in the hotel and Tour for Managua city, the Old Cathedral, the Palace of the Culture, the National Theatre Rubén Darío, Xolotlán Lake, Tiscapa Lake and the Malecón, and other places.

Transfer to Masaya by bus. Visit to National Park Masaya Volcano. Visit to Craftwork Market in Masaya's city. Visit to Catarina Viewpoint and San Juan de Oriente. Transfer to Granada city and accommodation over there.

DAY 3

Tour for Granada city: Colon’s Park, the Cathedral, the House of the Big France, the House of the Three Worlds, Merced’s Church, San Francisco’s Monastery,… Boat trip around Granada’s islets, which are a group of 365 small, volcanic origin islands, in the Cocibolca lake. Accommodation in Granada.

DAY 4

Departure to León city. Visit to the Cooperative Central of León. Visit to León Viejo, which was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 2001. Furthermore of the historical interest there is the landscape between Xolotlán lake and Momotombo volcano. The visitors, also could know and taste the famous “quesillo”( it is a kind of cheese which is roll in an omelette, with cream, onion and salt). Accommodation in the city.

DAY 5

Tour around León city, which is one of the more impresive colonial cities in America. It has more than 17 colonial churches, the biggest and one of the most beautiful cathedral in the whole Central America, the Recoleccion’s Church, the Merced, San Francisco and the San Pedros’ Chapel.

Free afternoon and/or additional tours (Cerro Negro, Isla Juan Venado, Tour del Ron). Accommodation in León.

DAY 6

Transfer to Mountain Hotel in Matagalpa, visiting the “Hervideros of San Jacinto”, which is a boiling area from Telica’s Volcano.

Start of the coffee Route. Arrival to Matagalpa. Accommodation and dinner are included in the mountain hotel, in the natural reserve Cerro El Arenal, in Matagalpa.

DAY 7

Arrival to La Fundadora community, meeting with La Jigüina cooperative. A beautiful route, onto forest landscape and fresh climate in La Fundadora’s mountains.

Then, we will visit the place where Jigüina coffee is processed, packed and certified. The lunch is included in the community. Tasting of coffee. Accommodation and dinner in the mountain hotel.

DAY 8

Transfer to San Carlos by bus, where the route begins by Rio San Juan. San Carlos is the starting point; its location next to the river makes it a really special place. Accommodation in the hotel.

DAY 9

Breakfast in the hotel and transfer by canoe to Archipiélago de Solentiname, which has 36 islands. Visit to Zapote Island, also called Bird’s island because there, every year nest migratory birds.

Then we will arrive to Mancarron Island. Created there was an important local community based on Liberation Theology. Carlo Mejís Godoy’s Farmer Mass was born there. We will know some activities such as craftwork, painting and fishing. Accommodation and dinner in the island.

DAY 10

Breakfast and departure by canoe through Papaturro River. We will arrive to The Guatusos which is a unique place Central America and it was the first wetland in Nicaragua with the category “Ramsar”. It is 430 square kilometres where we could find lakes, wetlands, and dry and wet forests. And also there are a big variety of species: monkeys, crocodiles, turtles, iguanas, jaguars, etc.

There we will visit cocoa products cooperative. We could talk with the women who work in the cooperative and we could taste the cocoa.

Way back to mancarrón island, visiting San fernando Island where we could know the primitive painters. Accommodation and dinner in the island.

DAY 11

Breakfast and way back to San Carlos. Next stop El Castillo, it is a tiny and beautiful village, where we will visit la Fortaleza de la Inmaculada Concepción. Accommodation in the Castle and night tour.

DAY 12

Breakfast at the hotel. We will make a walk to the Indio Maiz Reserve, through Bartola River. This reserve is 3000 square meters long and has 200 bird species, 30 mammal species and more than 700 types of plants.

Next we will visit El Tortuguero. The Indio Maiz reserve and El Tortuguero are proposed to be World Biosphere Reserves.

Free afternoon in El Castillo.