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September 24, 2005
Isla de Ometepe
We woke up and grabbed a bus to Rivas where we next jumped on a taxi towards Lago de Nicaragua. First, though, in the bus lot leaving Granada, Em spotted a friend from highschool that she used to play basketball with jumping on another bus. She raced the bus down and knocked on the window. Tish Landis was heading to Costa Rica. Crazy. Before long were on a small cargo boat headed to Isla de Ometepe, an island created from two volcanos, located right in the middle of the lake. The best part of the boat ride was when some Nicaraguan boys in bathing suits who were with us on the ferry as we left the dock, ran and dove off the top deck to swim back. It looked like great fun.
Once on the island we jumped aboard a bus headed to Playa Santo Domingo, a beach on the north side of the island. We arrived about an hour and a half later. There were three hotels in town but we headed for Hospedaje Buena Vista (recommended by Eelco and Bas) run by island native Byron Flores. Not only was it the cheapest but in our opinion it was also the best. Hammocks and rocking chairs lined the patio which opened up to a great view of the lake. Not only was it beautiful but we were the only guests in the hotel so we had the whole place to ourselves.
We had dinner at the next hotel over whose owner I talked to for a while before we ate about politics in both Nicaragua and the U.S. While we were eating, a curious and aggressive cat came to our table looking for some food. We broke down and threw her a few bites of fish. She disappeared quickly. We found out later that she was a cat from our hotel that had just had kittens.
To my delight, as we were finishing up our meal, I heard HBO Boxing come on the television in the lobby. After paying the bill we headed inside and I watched a Miguel Cotto fight with a worker from the hotel while Em and his girlfriend were bored to tears. The Klitchco/Peters match that was supposed to be up next wasn’t show on Nicaraguan TV and I told the guy that Em had gotten lucky. “So did she…” he replied gesturing towards his girlfriend. We headed back to the hotel and got some sleep.
Posted by Peter Mork at September 24, 2005 12:41 AM
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