Nicaragua

I recently had a friend visit which was amazing. We spent one week in my site, and the secon week treaveling.
This is a view from where we stayed on the Island of Ometepe. This island is in the middle of Lake Nicaragua, the largest lake in central america. It actually even has a sustainable population of bullshark. There are two mountains that form the island, we climbed the smaller one which is actually behind us so you can't see it in the photo.

View 2

I really like the contrast between the red roofs, green forests, and blue mountains.

This above photo is of the guid we had, we succesfully eluded him the whole day, he was rather obnoxious, and less than obvious about his interest in me. (it was awekward he'd tell me how much I look like his sister, then tell me how beautiful I am and do something like rub my shoulders or try to play with my hair.. ewww!)Here he asked me if I really needed glasses so he gave them a go, and realized yes, I am rather blind.

This photo is of me returning a work call, I love that my office can be on the side of a volcano to the tune of howler monkeys.

Coffee beans growing. perfect climate for them, and its amazingly tastey.

A couple of the ferries that take people to and from the main land.

A view of the bigger of the two volcanos which we didn't climb. This one is active.

We volunteered for a day on a permaculture farm (not still 100% clear on what permaculture is exactly, it involves farming modeling naturally exhisting ecosystems,and landscapes) we had the honor of chopping down banana trees which machettes which was a blast! The trees only live for a year or two bearing fruit at which point they're cut down. Each tree gives birth to around 8 new trees after being chopped.