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Living the Costal Dream!
Wanted to pass on a well written travel blog – Matt is Missing.  I don’t know Matt – he is a friend of a friend, however in August he took a vacation to Nicaragua for a couple of weeks, fell in love with the country, and ended up staying quite a bit [...]

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Eco Tourism in a Recession

When talking with people of investing or traveling to Nicaragua, one of the most common questions is what is there to do their.  Obviously surfing in Nicaragua is Huge, but there is a developing eco-tourism industry in Nicaragua that is often overshadowed by its much more mature neighbor - Costa Rica.  Many Journalists are now [...]

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The World has made it to San Juan!

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More good news for this growing tourism and investment destination!
If you have never heard of it The World is is a resort community that continually circumnavigates the globe.  It is in fact the only private community at sea.
We have heard news that they will be docking in San Juan Del Sur Nicaragua on April 23/24!  [...]

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Our volcano surfing post from early 2008 is one of our most highly hit articles.  Today I just noticed an article that ran in the New York times on this sport - entitled “A sport erupts on a live volcano in Nicaragua“!  A continuing theme of Nicaragua breaking into the mainstream media more and more.  [...]

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Got an email  from  our partners down in Nicaragua.  This information is from the Nica Times - Feb 27, 2009.  I tried finding an online version of this article but it appears that it might have been only in the  paper version. I also believe this is a direct quote from the article.

The board of [...]

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As we have said a number of times on this blog - the level of media coverage in an area will bring with it increased traffic making for great investments.  If you get in before a location goes mainstream, your investment margins will be much higher.  Nicaragua is already starting to be known on [...]

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I came across this great story today about a couple of families from Jacksonville Florida that used their savings and bought a piece of land 3 years ago in Nicaragua, started a business called The Surf Sanctuary, and have been living the ‘coastal dream’ every since.   How did they do it?  According to the [...]

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(Photo: Bill Wooten)
Despite a world financial crisis and a year of political turmoil here, Nicaragua’s small yet feisty tourism sector proved its resilience in 2008 by growing 7.2 percent, according to numbers released this week by the Nicaraguan Tourism Institute (INTUR).
This from an article this past week in the Nica Times. INTUR is calling this [...]

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We received an exciting email from one of our friends in San Juan about a Mountain Bike race debuting this year - The San Juan Howler!  As described:

18K of Ox paths, single track, dirt roads, and river beds make ‘the Howler’ a mountain biking adventure to make even the most experienced racers HOWL!
The event is [...]

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