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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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Today in the LA Times there was an article that listed the top 10 ethical travel destinations compiled by The Ethical Traveler in a study of the worlds 70 plus developing nations.
“Ethical travel” is defined by the organization as “an awareness of our impact as we explore the world.”
Latin America made up half of the [...]

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Volcano Paradise

A well written and vivid depiction of the beauty in Nicaragua by Tom Fordyce in the Sunday times.  There is so much attention given these days to the poor leadership in this country and the associated strife it is causing, but people forget that you find these issues in many places.  It doesn’t change the [...]

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Playa Madera is a great sandy beach with easy access (assuming you are not traveling during the rainy season) only about 15 minutes by car north of San Juan Del Sur in South western Nicaragua.  While considered one of the more popular beaches to the north of San Juan, it is still relatively quiet, and [...]

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