After about of week of traveling with our new South African friends, Chloe and Gail, we decided we needed to come up with a name for our group. Chloe was so proud of herself when she came up with the amazing rhyme "Awesome Foursome". Upon hearing this, Laura and I looked at her puzzled as this clearly does not rhyme.... but after she repeated it again we discovered that in a South African accent it in fact does. So thus we became the "Awesome Fawsome".
After seeing pretty much all of Guatemala, (honestly when we looked at the map it was crazy how much we covered in 10 days), it was now time to explore Nicaragua. First stop the old capital city of Leon. Leon is a really pretty colonial city, but what attracts people to this town is the volcano that lays about 30 min outside of town. Cerro Negro (which is appropriately named meaning Black Hill) is famous for volcano boarding, which is essentially hiking up to the top of a volcano and boarding down on a toboggan. It is a 50 degree slope down about 700 meters and is guaranteed to give one of the best adrenaline rushes of all time. Laura went the fastest and got the 3rd fastest speed of our group (#1 amongst the girls) at 64 km/hour. I don´t remember exactly how fast I was but it was in the 40km/hr range. What I can tell you is i got DIRTY! I honestly had a mustache and beard from the volcano ash! Sexy look don´t you think? For those planning to travel to Leon I highly recommend staying at Via Via Hostel and then booking the volcano boarding across the street at Bigfoot Hostel.
After Leon, we bussed down to Granada, where we did a tour of the lake islands and a horse carriage around town. Its a really cute town very to Antigua. After about hours we had seen it all.... which was a good thing because it started POURING. SO what better thing to do than eat and drink? We settled in at a restaurant and made the most of the happy hour and spent the next 10 hours or so tasting the delicious Nicaraguan cocktails :).
After seeing pretty much all of Guatemala, (honestly when we looked at the map it was crazy how much we covered in 10 days), it was now time to explore Nicaragua. First stop the old capital city of Leon. Leon is a really pretty colonial city, but what attracts people to this town is the volcano that lays about 30 min outside of town. Cerro Negro (which is appropriately named meaning Black Hill) is famous for volcano boarding, which is essentially hiking up to the top of a volcano and boarding down on a toboggan. It is a 50 degree slope down about 700 meters and is guaranteed to give one of the best adrenaline rushes of all time. Laura went the fastest and got the 3rd fastest speed of our group (#1 amongst the girls) at 64 km/hour. I don´t remember exactly how fast I was but it was in the 40km/hr range. What I can tell you is i got DIRTY! I honestly had a mustache and beard from the volcano ash! Sexy look don´t you think? For those planning to travel to Leon I highly recommend staying at Via Via Hostel and then booking the volcano boarding across the street at Bigfoot Hostel. 
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