Vulcano Mombacho

4.3.2012.
Excursion to vulcano Mombacho

Although we were still weak due to our parasites in us, we could not stay again a whole weekend at our house. So we decided to go up the vulcano Mombacho which is next to Granada and which you always see from almost every part in Granada.
You can decide wether going up by foot, which is a 2km walk, quite steep, or you take one of the pickups for a few dollars more... well, it is obvious what we did...haha. On the top you can decide between 2 walks. One is 1,5km and you can do it alone, the other one is almost 4km and you need a guide. So we booked a guide and he took us around the whole top of the Mombacho to different viewpoints from which we saw the Laguna do Apoyo, the lake of Granada, Isla Ometepe and so on... it was a nice walk up and down through a forest and the climate was so refreshing! We had great weather, that means it was sunny, almost no cloud so we had great views, and as at an altitude of 1200m it is usually quite cold, around 10 grade, we had around 18-20 grades and this was really nice!
Thanks to our nice guide Luis, a nica student who pays his university while working as a guide on Mombacho, and thanks to our amigos who joined us this day. Mombacho is really worth it, but we really recommend not to walk all the way up the vulcano, because the walks on the top are so much more worth it to do! And both is almost impossible... 


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