Saturday, 5 January 2008

Managua and the hotel of doom!

Catching a bus to the americanised Managua (the capital of Nicaragua which has been destroyed five times by earthquakes, fire, revolutions and floods) we arrived at the bus terminal determined to stay somewhere near the international bus terminal as we had booked tickets to El Salvador for 5am the following morning. Taking note of the "don't go out at night" tourist advice we chose a hotel only 2 minutes walk from the terminal. The price was 5 times the guide price and it was a complete dive. It was suggested that in the morning we hire an armed escort for the 200m walk to the terminal, assuming this was protection money we agreed.

Quite pleased to be out of Managua!

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