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Stephen Tidmore  > Travel > Nicaragua
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Stephen Tidmore > Las Peñitas, Nicaragua, August 2007 - Detail of a thatch roof on the beach.
Stephen Tidmore > León, Nicaragua, August 2007 - Lion guarding the entrance to the Catedral de León.
Stephen Tidmore > Playa Maderas, Nicaragua, July 2007 - A tip jar at a tiny food stand on the beach where a husband and wife serve three meals a day to the travelers and surfers that pass by.  Playa Maderas is a popular surfer's beach close to San Juan Del Sur.
Stephen Tidmore > Lake Nicaragua, July 2007 - A Mono Araña (Spider Monkey) on an island in Lake Nicaragua.

The island is one of the islets of Granada that are located in Lake Nicaragua, just southeast of the city of Granada. The islets are a group of 365 small islands that were formed when the Mombacho Volcano blew most of its cone into the lake over 20,000 years ago.
Stephen Tidmore > Doorway, Estelí
Stephen Tidmore > León, Nicaragua, August, 2008 - Two statues hold up a cathedral bell in The Cathedral of León.  The cathedral is the largest in Central America and is the final resting place of the famous Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío.
Stephen Tidmore > Chagüite Grande, Nicaragua, July 2007 - Two men work in a corn field outside of Jinotega, Nicaragua.

Agriculture represents about 17% of the Gross Domestic Product of Nicaragua, and employees 29% of the population.  Corn is widely grown and consumed throughout the country.
Stephen Tidmore > Every rose has its barbed wire, Jinotega
Stephen Tidmore > Jinotega, Nicaragua, July 2007 - A pig enters a rural home in a small village outside of Jinotega.
Stephen Tidmore > Night scene in the Plaza Central, Granada
Stephen Tidmore > Doorway, Catedral de León
Stephen Tidmore > Jinotega, Nicaragua, July 3, 2007 - Back of a typical Central American bus.

These type of buses are commonly referred to by English speaking travelers as "chicken buses".  A chicken bus (Spanish: "camioneta") is a colloquial English name for a colorfully modified and decorated US school bus and transit bus that transports goods and people between Central American communities. The word "chicken" refers to the fact that people in rural communities regularly transport live animals on such buses.
Stephen Tidmore > El Lagartillo, Nicaragua, March 19, 2007 - A man carries a bundle of sugarcane past a rural mill used to grind the sugarcane into juice.  The juice is then placed in a large tub and boiled over a fire to make honey.
Stephen Tidmore > Cooling off in El Salto, El Lagartillo
Stephen Tidmore > Waterfall, La Reserva Datanlí el Diablo
Las Peñitas, Nicaragua, August 2007 - Detail of a thatch roof on the beach.
Stephen Tidmore > Las Peñitas, Nicaragua, August 2007 - Detail of a thatch roof on the beach.
Las Peñitas, Nicaragua, August 2007 - Detail of a thatch roof on the beach.
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