¡Epa! (Hey!)
This weekend has been so amazing so far! Today I went on the Midnight Volcano Tour in Masaya. The larger group wen to San Juan de Sur, while Betsy, Brittanny, Kaitlyn Shruthi, and I stayed in Granada for the weekend. After spending a day at Laguna Apoyo and not being in the water i didnt want to go on another weekend trip by the water.
In the morning after breakfast, I met up with Brittany and Betsy to do some sightseeing and walking around. First stop was the Mi Museo that had ceramics and antiques. The Museum was not too big so we were done quickly. It also had a outside patio that was really nice and it was cool that some of the pieces being showcased were for sale.
After the museum, we went to the famous Chocolate museum, which we found out was connected to Hotel Spa granada. The museum just a small corner of the room, with the history of chocolate starting with the spanish, then the Europeans, also the process of making chocolate and chocolate fun facts. There were som Cacoa tress in the center of the hotel, which was cool. We were a bit sad there were no free chocolate samples and we did have time and probably the funds for the chocolate making class.
Later on the day we met up with shruthi and Kaitlyn at the Travel agency and boarded a AIR-Conditionted bus to Masaya. When we first got there we had to cheek in with the park ranger then we started driving through the volcano. WE got out at first to see some of the lava and all around you could see how the lava had moved. we then drove further to the first viewing point. Apparantley some of the volcanoes here, including the one at massy emits Gas. There was also an interesting story about the cross that was on a hill. apparently there was someone don't remember who, that thought that the volcanoes were the door to hell and he wanted to baptize/christen then so he built a cross there. The pictures of the cross during the sunset were beautiful. There were also so many parakeets and other bird species. I remember learning parakeet in spanish class and i really didnt know what it was even in english when the others figured it out but hey! I do now. from there we took the bus further and then climbed to the highest viewing point. At times it was a bit scary and hard to climb up as well as go back down.
Finally, we went to the caves. The first cave, we were able to walk inside about a good 10mins to a certain point until it was no longer safe/ prohibited for tourist. We saw some bats hanging. I was so happy we were given flashlights and helmets because a) i could have walked into a bat b) there were numerous times when i hit my head hard on the ceiling. we then went to the other cave where most of the bats were. It was pretty dark now so they were leaving the cave. There was a boa, trying to and successfully caught a bat as they were flying out. We then tried what our tour guide called an "experiment" where we all turned off our flashlights and the bats started coming out of our opening of the cave and one flew right above my head. IT was pretty cool and disturbing at the same time.
It was really cool tour and i got lots of cool pics. Im pretty tired and going to sleep nervous and anxious for tomorrow when we go Ziplining. I already paid so i guess i can't back out now! As my best friend kindly reminded me 2014 is our year to be "Brave" so I have to conquer my fear of heights!
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