ar faded from the nightly news broadcasts of network television, Nicaragua is about to make its return to prime-time TV in the United States. Only this time, the story is much more positive.
Starting July 15, the Emmy award-winning reality TV series Survivor will start filming its 21st season in various remote areas around San Juan del Sur.
Reporting from Altagracia, Nicaragua
On the road south from the international airport in Managua, Nicaragua swooshes by, unfurling in buzzing, humid green. Fields of swaying banana trees recede from the road in rows, the shaggy fronds bouncing against a searing blue sky.
(NOTE: visit this article online - there is an extensive gallery of photos from all over Nicaragua attached to this article)
It’s easy to see why Paul Rivers and Tyler Carpenter left the snow, cold, hustle and bustle behind back home in Canada.
When Dom Joly got a call from his agent he never dreamed it would lead to this ... skiing down a volcano in Nicaragua.
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua — Today, like every day, begins with a smoothie: a blend of pineapple, melon, banana, passion fruit, papaya, yogurt, nuts and pitaya, a Central American delicacy responsible for the bright magenta coloring of the drink in Bob Schmidt’s hand.
(Tropical Retirement: Nicaragua wants to become a hot new retirement destination.)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Responding to an increasingly complicated and competitive market in times of global economic downturn, the government of Nicaragua is changing its game plan.
In Nicaragua, three months into the rainy season usually means few tourists. But not this year.
In the first five months of 2009, tourism in Nicaragua grew by 11 percent, even as most of the world experienced a downward trend.
(Surf's Up: San Juan del Sur's real estate market is catching a second wave.)
SAN JUAN DEL SUR – Surfers bobbing in the lineup off the beach at San Juan del Sur know that if they miss one wave, another one is sure to come along.
The rules for investment, however, are usually trickier: you either stay ahead of the wave, watch it go by, or get crushed by it.
If you've already done the "easy" central american destinations like Costa Rica and Belize and want to try something a little more adventuresome (and a little cheaper), you may be surprised how far Nicaragua's tourism infranstructure has come in a few short years.
In a country where history is alive and always present, T+L finds well-preserved colonial towns and remnants of the 1970’s revolution, teeming jungles, white-sand beaches, and charming Caribbean hideaways.
The last time I was in Granada, Nicaragua, was in 1984. My “solidarity gringo” friends and I, in the country to support the embattled Sandinista revolution, were taking a break from the capital city of Managua, where it seemed like every other person had an automatic weapon slung over their shoulder.
THERE’S nothing quite like the sudden silence one experiences midway through the descent down a roughly 1,600-foot volcanic slope, having just somersaulted out of the pebble-scraping, air-rushing trajectory previously occupied by you and your volcano board.
News editor Paula Szuchman on the remote beaches of Nicaragua.
TOLA, Nicaragua – Nicaragua's Pacific coastline has all the natural ingredients needed for a golf boom: there are large swaths of unused land that have been cleared by generations of cattle raising, abundant supplies of fresh water and rain, year-round sun and tropical weather, and stunning ocean views.
Nicaragua was featured in the March 2009 issue of GQ Magazine:
... Yes, the financial forecast is grim, but that doesn't mean you have to deny youself a sunny escape. Get to Central America, where the wave riding, cerveza sipping, and beach bumming come cheap and easy ...
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Fourteen years ago, on my first trip to Costa Rica, I agreed to check out some land a Canadian expat was selling. Zancudo Peninsula. One lot back from a rustic beach. Lush hills. Thirty grand -- or, about $29,500 more than I had. I excused myself to catch some waves, and ever since have tried very hard not to dwell on how much that parcel must have appreciated.
Ruth Chapman is a runner-up in the adventure category of our travel writing competition with her tale of volcano boarding in Nicaragua.
Finding holiday joy far from Europe — in Nicaragua
Travel writer Rick Steves goes afar for holiday celebrations — to La Purisima festival in the city of Leon, Nicaragua
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LOLL in one of the pools at Pelican Eyes, a new development above the town of San Juan del Sur, on Nicaragua’s Pacific Coast: a tranquil breeze blows up the hillside from the perfect bay below, the pool’s disappearing edge merges with sea and sky, and the only sound is the rhythmic tapping of the bricklayers who are building the place — a compound of whitewashed, tile-roofed houses amid lush
ON a recent Saturday night, an invitation-only dance party was in full swing at Asia Latina, a Thai-style restaurant in the Nicaraguan city of Granada. The lights were dim, the music electronic and the kitchen that usually serves up pad Thai closed. And though the blistering sun had long set, a lingering heat hung in the room, which was decorated with Thai tapestries and Indian batiks.
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