Nicaragua embraces backpackers with volcanic views, colonial cities, incredible surf beaches, Caribbean seas and cloud forests. Nicaragua straddles both the Caribbean and Pacific coasts giving travellers options of diving in warm turquoise Caribbean waters and wild black sand surfing beaches. This wonderful country in the centre of Central America is boarder by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. It’s a relatively cheap country and it’s very easy to get around with reasonable shuttles or dirt cheap chicken buses. You won’t need to do any ten hour buses to get from one place to the next. Getting there If you come via air you will fly into Managua airport where you will be able to get buses to your next destination. Coming from El Salvador? Hop on a small boat from Potosí. Coming from Honduras or Coasta Rica? You can get local chicken buses or a Tica bus, which is a bus company that run coaches through Central America. We came from D&D brewery in Honduras all the way to San Juan del Sur in one day. We got a taxi to a petrol station to meet the Tica…