There’s a country called Granada too, don’t get confused 😁. Granada was really quite fantastic. The plan for the full day turned out to be really good.
We started with breakfast at a local restaurant that is staffed with hearing impaired people. Nicaraguan sign language has a fascinating history and I was very grateful to have a chance to see it and use (a few words of) it. — Yes, I picked up sign language faster than spoken.
After that was a walking tour of town, learning some more of the history. (I skipped this, I needed some rest).
11am we headed out to a lake. There was much confusion the night before about which lake it was, as we are doing two lakes, one we can swim, one we can’t. And the guide joked we can’t swim in one because of sharks, so every time after someone mentioned a lake we would ask if it was the one with sharks. I can report I was not bitten by any sharks, but was nibbled by some fish!
The lake we went to was amazing, it is a large lake that was formed in the calendar of a long extinct volcano, so it has a rather sharp drop off in the water. This isn’t like a normal beach. One step you are fine, the next step the bottom is a lot deeper. The lake is surrounded with lush forests and the government has prohibited any further development on the lake, so the shore is almost pristine. You have to look really hard to see any other properties.
We were at one of the few businesses allowed on the lake side, a small “resort” of sorts — basically you pay some money to swim, they have kayaks, paddle boards, etc, and a bar.
I can’t explain how wonderful it was just to swim and relax by the lake in the midday sun. There was enough of an onshore breeze that so long as you were either in the water or had shade it was a pleasant temperature.
After that we went to the second largest lake in South America and did a boat tour through some small coastal island and saw a lot of birds and some howler monkeys.
Today really was one of relaxing, even though we were doing stuff.
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