Hill top vista of our next two days

Today is our last day of Spanish class at la Mariposa Spanish school, Jimmy our instructor, a young Nicaraguan man, was to give us Spanish lessons for the first session today, but he has reserved a surprise to us. We were not going to have lessons, instead he was going to take us to see a place he wanted us to see because he thought it was beautiful and he didn’t want us to leave without seeing the site. We arrived at the site eventually – it was beautiful indeed; at the far view you could see the town of Masaya, and the Mamboco volcano located in Granada in the background, shaping a large blurry blue mountain. Right before the town of Masaya was the Crater Lake Laguna Masaya, navy blue, surrounded by palm tree fields, and on our right was the active Masaya volcano which had a cross at the crater and smoke was steaming from it. Jimmy thought us much about the legends of the place, how each group of settlers, from indigenous people to Spanish missionaries’ settlers, had claimed the site connection to the spiritual powers. The breeze from the lake up to the hill we were sitting at was unavoidably seducing, for us to stay longer and contemplate that beautiful vista.-Juste






Friday, we first visit the town of Maysaya with its open air markets and then a noon picnic and swim at La Lagoona De Apoyo.