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People in Nicaragua doing what Nicaragua people do

dennis_forney
May 25, 2015
We met Robin at Selva Negra.  He quit his job in England as a social worker and is now traveling Central and South America for a year. We shared rum and Coke with him one evening.  I like the drink with lots of lemon or lime juice.  One morning at breakfast he brought along one of the organic lemons grown in the orchards of Selva Negra. Impressive lemon wouldn't you say? (No, it's not a grapefruit.) BY DENNIS FORNEY
One of the local campesinos wandered out of the darkness into the gathering room of the Finca Neblina the same night I made the previous photograph. He was feeling no pain and Isabella was neither amused nor sympathetic. But he was accommodating when I asked him if I could make a photo.  When I was finished, I wandered out into the night to look at the stars, where the road and the entrance to Finca Neblina intersected.  Standing there I heard an unusual noise and couldn't quite place it. Then I looked behind a stone fence and there lay, I'm guessing, a friend of the campesino, curled on the dirt in fetal position, sleeping his off with evenly paced and nicely rhythmic snoring. A dog wouldn't have been any more comfortable but I've rarely heard a dog snore. BY DENNIS FORNEY
Two of the cooks behind the counter and in the kitchen at Finca Neblina. BY DENNIS FORNEY
We rode horses in the mountains and stopped at this waterfall.  Very pretty.  The man at the little house by the falls is a father figure for our riding guide.  He charges a few cordobas (26 make a dollar) to walk down to the falls.  He is shown in the next photo. BY DENNIS FORNEY
BY DENNIS FORNEY
In the market in the Nicaraguan colonial city of Léon, one of the vendors sat by her colorful fruit and read one of the local newspapers.  I'm always happy to see people reading newspapers and decided to share my joy. BY DENNIS FORNEY
Our surfing instructor and guide around the Pacific Coast town of Pochomil is called Belize, because of his birthplace.  We spent time with him and his girlfriend, Noveña, and their little baby boy, Edson. Belize recommended we ride a four-wheeler the next morning  northward on the beach to the fishing village of Masachapa. The fishing boats go out at about 6 p.m., fish all night, and then return at 6 a.m. in the morning.  The villagers all come down to the waterfront to buy fresh fish, right off the boats. The next two photos show a couple family members of some of the captains selling the night's catch on the beachfront.  What a beautiful scene! BY DENNIS FORNEY
BY DENNIS FORNEY
BY DENNIS FORNEY

Becky and I spent 10 days in Nicaragua recently.  Those who follow my intermittent blogs know this.  Others not so much.

I have lots of photos to share.  Nicaraguans are nice people.  They eat healthy, live in a warm climate, have access to lots of fruit and vegetables, plenty of meals made up primarily of beans and rice with addition of bits of meat here and there and hot sauces to give the food interest.

Nice people who love their families and like to talk about their children and grandchildren and other members of their families.

Lots of ecological awareness out in the country, lots of awareness of a joint Chinese and Nicaraguan effort to build a new canal across Nicaragua to compete with the Panama Canal.  Huge project.

So, here are some photos of people I photographed here and there in Nicaragua. It felt like a very young country to us.  Some are from the Pacific coast, some from up in the mountains of the Central American nation's highlands and cloud forests.

This blog constitutes yet one more effort to get into a routine of daily blogs. I don't lack the material, but days fill up quickly and I can never knock out a blog as quickly as I'd like. But I'm going to try anyway.  My intentions are noble. And it reminds me of the smokers who say quitting smoking isn't so hard. They've done it many times. But what the heck. Might as well try again. Here are today's photos.  Hope you like them. Every one of them involved richer encounters than I can describe here but they will give you a taste of people from a different place and culture.

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