Coastal Dreaming

Here is a trailer for what looks to be a great Nicaraguan Surf Movie called CENTRO by ThirdBorn Entertainment.  If that peaked your interest then think about contacting an operation such as Surf Tours Nicaragua, or just head down there and catch some great waves on your own.  There is good surf all along [...]

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Some great marketing by a Nicaragua cigar maker!   As soon as Obama won the November election, Granada 1524 Cigars of Corona, California, began shipping Obama Presidential Series 44 cigars out of Nicaragua to the U.S. market.  They exported 20,000 cigars in December and January.  Retailing at $15 - $20 each - not a bad [...]

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Nicaragua is about to make another great stride to reduce it´s independence on imported oil to supply it´s electrical energy needs. The State-run Brazilian electric company Eletrobras and a private firm from that country will invest $350 million in the construction of a hydroelectric dam in the basin of the Rio Grande de Matagalpa in [...]

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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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“I am unqualified to vote” was my usual response whenever asked if I had voted. “What do you mean?” was the reply. “Well, I do not watch T.V. nor do I read newspapers or magazines and I have no personal experience with any of the candidates or legal proposals so I am, therefore, unqualified to [...]

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(from San Juan Del Sur) As much as I have decided I do not like Daniel Ortega I have to admit infrastructure has improved immensely. Whether or not he deserves the credit, the highway system in Southeastern Nicaragua continues its dramatic improvement. The road through Masaya is complete. We saved 20 [...]

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We just returned from our first trip to Nicaragua for 2008, and it is so exciting to see what is going on down there. Once you get past the American press that only lets you see that which the media machine considers ‘newsworthy’, you find a country that is tranquil, people that are overly [...]

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After my post a few days ago regarding the snag I ran into with the 6 month passport expiration rule, things are now all back in order and our travel will be able to go ahead as planned (with only 3 days to spare:). To summarize, after finding out that I [...]

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Wes and I have been busy finalizing preparations for our next trip to Nicaragua to begin development work for our Las Laderas Development initiative in northwestern Nicaragua. Tickets have been booked, inter-country travel arrangements set up, meetings set with other land developers, local business owners, and partners, excursions planned to view and document the [...]

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Property will change hands approximately 4-5 times before it reaches its final end user. Along the way supply goes down, demand and interest grow, prices rise, and lot sizes shrink. Property will change hands from the original land owner, through speculators and investors to developers and or retirement investments, and then to second [...]

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