Opinion. Slip off the shoes, whip out the plastic bag of 3.4-oz. toiletries, isolate the laptop in the bin, chug the last of the liquids, and pray to the TSA gods that it’s not your turn for a patdown. As...

Volcán Concepción dominates the entire northern end of the island. It rises dramatically out of the lake, conjuring those iconic images of Mt. Fuji, but with a cotton candy tuft of cloud permanently affixed to the peak instead of snow....

Editorial. After years of budding tourism growth, Nicaragua is suddenly coming into bloom as the new darling of the mainstream travel industry from New York to London. In the past few months, Nicaragua has made U.S. News & World Report’s...

Sure, I really like chocolate, who doesn’t? But for me, a trip to the northern reaches of Nicaragua was just a chance to explore some unfamiliar countryside and shake off the heat-induced ennui that had settled over me during the...

GREYTOWN—In the outermost reaches of the Nicaragua’s southern jungle frontier, on an alluvial headland overlooking the mouth of the mesmerizing Río San Juan, an international group of ecotourism pioneers is endeavoring to build a wildlife refuge that will be Nicaragua’s...

Editorial. Nicaragua, it seems, has had an image problem for as long as it has had an image. Part of Nicaragua’s eternal public-relations predicament is a monster of its own making, while the other half is due to the collective...

Any traveler who has ever set foot on the strikingly surreal island of Ometepe knows all too well the trials and tribulations of the journey to get there. This is especially true if your goal was an early arrival. Our...

I was excited to read in the July 10 edition of The Nicaragua Dispatch that Blue Panorama had started a new flight from Managua to Rome—the country’s only non-stop flight to Europe, and at a decent price. As soon as...

ESTELÍ—Atop the Tisey mirador, looking west, I lean into a burly Pacific breeze blowing in over an ocean of rolling hills. Barely visible on the horizon, several cone-shaped volcanoes remind me that yes, I am still in Nicaragua. That’s how...

GREYTOWN, Nicaragua—Deep in the jungle on a marshy riverbank that’s contentiously close to the Costa Rican border, the Nicaraguan government has created a Sandinista sleepaway camp for teens interested in environmentalism and national defense. For a week at a time,...