Nicaragua's English Language Newspaper

NicaNews #16 September 1998 Vol. 2 - No. 4 - 16


Set sail from San Juan del Sur aboard the Pelican Eyes. Photo: Tomas Stargardter

Featured Article:

Set Sail for a Pacific Paradise
Look out over the bay in San Juan del Sur, you see a multitude of vessels bobbing on the swell. Fishing boats, shrimpers, barges, luxury pleasure craft, open launches.
There, close to the center, you see a white sloop, the tip of its mast tracing invisible patterns in the sky. The name blazed in yellow on its prow: Pelican Eyes.
Sailboats tend to bring out the wanderlust in most anybody with a heart that still has a beat left in it. [More...]

Café Amatl
Noted for its clubs, cafés, and the bohemian crowd found there, Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan was the focal point for beatniks in the 1950s and other varieties of counterculture expression in the decades since. Café Amatl would be a natural fit into the Village scene. [More...]

Behind the Waterfall: El Salto Estanzuela
Although well known in the Estelí area, El Salto Estanzuela is not an obvious tourist attraction. For one thing, the impressive waterfall is hidden in a deep gorge in the countryside west of the city with rock cliffs, old-growth riparian trees, and thick vegetation. Estanzuela is not found unless actively sought. The effort, however, is worth it -"vale la pena", as they say in these parts. [More...]

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