Our first two weeks in Nicaragua - la tierra de lagos y volcanes (the land of lakes and volcanoes)
We left El Salvador in a shuttle bound for Leon in Nicaragua at 9am, due to arrive by 5pm. Sadly for us, we had our worst border crossing yet at the border into Nicaragua and we didn’t end up arriving til 11pm! We had heard the Nicaragua border crossing officials were a bit more rigorous than other borders in Central America, but we hadn’t anticipated quite what we would experience. Firstly, we had to have our covid checks - our covid passports were checked, our temperatures taken, and a stamp of approval for the next step in the border crossing. Then we had to take all of our possessions from the van into a big room to be X-ray scanned, and the bus was searched for potential hidden contraband. Next, the border officials took all our passports and searched our social media accounts to check we didn’t have anti-governmental views, and that we aren’t journalists. We managed to pass through all of those steps with no issues and in about 2 hours. But unfortunately for us, we wer...