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Nicaragua - Travel Info
Daytime travel to Nicaragua’s tourist
destinations.
Enjoy Your Visit To Nicaragua -- Surfari Charters
will gladly arrange travel to any area that may be of interest to you.
Nicaragua hosts a variety of activities, making it a
trip for everyone.
- GRANADA
Historic whitewashed city; offers a variety of restaurants, horse
carriage rides, etc.
- MASAYA
Traditional market town named after Volcan Masaya; great deals
depending on bargaining ability; hammocks, clothing, ceramics, wood
crafts, leather, rum, etc.
- CANOPY TOURS
Experience views of Nicaragua from it’s treetops, on cables 10-100
feet high.
- LAGUNA DE APOYO:
Beautiful lookout over a freshwater crater lake.
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VOLCANOES
Nicaragua has several volcanoes that offer short tours.
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A Brief History
Nicaragua has had a difficult past in that many
remember the horrific 1978-79 revolution against a very corrupt Somoza
Government by the Sandinista guerrilla organization. Extensive damage
and over 30,000 casualties resulted from the violence. After heavy
fighting, Somoza resigned on July 17, 1979, and the Government was
taken over by a group representing the Sandinista guerrillas and their
civilian allies.
The US took steps to intervene in the overthrow of the Somoza
Government, and funded an anti-Sandinista group called the Contras.
Nicaragua was forced to use the majority of what money it had left
to fight against the US funded insurgency. Still unable to overthrow
the Sandinista Government, the US halted any quick rebuilding of the
devastated economy by placing a trade embargo on Nicaragua and making
it very difficult for the country to collect the aid it had been
promised.
During this time, however, the Sandinista Government was able to
reduce illiteracy from 50% to 13%, eliminate polio and reduce infant
mortality to a third of its former rate. Unfortunately, divisions in
the Sandinista Government, concerns with more corruption, and the
inability of the Government to return the country to a state of
complete peace or economic betterment caused the Nicaraguan people to
look towards a political change in order to create a higher standard
of living.
Although during the 1990s the Sandinistas gradually repositioned
themselves politically, dropping socialist policies and revolutionary
talk in favor of a Christian democrat posture; free elections in 1990,
1996, and 2001 have democratically put candidates other than the
Sandinistas into the Presidency.
During these years a political unity has emerged, the economy,
although still poor, has begun to stabilize, Nicaragua is offering
incentives for those who develop tourism related industry and the
Nicaraguan Government has opened its doors widely to foreign
investment.
For your adventure travel to Nicaragua, contact Surfari
Charters.
Transportation, surfing, fishing, travel guide, and accommodation
services.
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