Our next destination was Masaya. i dont have much to say about the town, except it has a big and chaotic bus terminal (by terminal i mean just a dusty field) and a lot of shops with some hand made stuff ranging from purses to bracelets and shoes. Also a lot of stuff made of wood. I was consideing buying a hammock but ended up buying a tshirt which i really need because until now i have been traveling with just two tshirts. Anyway, the main reason for staying in Masaya was seeing the Laguna Apoyo.
And it was nice. It was perhaps the best swim so far. The laguna is in a former volcano crater so when swimming, you´re surrounded by jungle hills from all sides. Plus, the water is crystal clear. We spent there the whole afternoon just chilling which (for me) consisted mainly of swimming, drinking beer, laying in a hammock and reading the biography of Steve Jobs on my kindle.
The next day we moved to Matagalpa, a town higher in the muntains of northern Nicaragua. Matagalpa is again surrounded by hills which we have yet to climb to get the view over the town. When we got off the bus there was a guy (Canadian is my guess) who recommended us a hostel called Buena Onda and we followed his advice. Indeed it was a nice place with a lot of travelers and friendly, english speaking staff.
We went to dinner with two Swiss - Martina and Moritz and developed stories about why we cannot access the hostel kitchen after 10am. Also we had a lot of fun with a guitar player named Orlando. He asked me what my name was and apparently there is a word in Spanish that sounds similar to my name and it means "to spin". Orlando couldn't stop laughing about that. Too bad i cant speak spanish...
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