Granada, on the shores of Lake Nicaragua, is a wonderful city to visit or even make as your hub of travel through much of the country. There is plenty to do here, and city accommodations are plentiful and fairly priced.
This emerging Central American destination is a budget hot spot that offers visitors a natural high with 18 volcanoes, rain and cloud forests, and world-class surfing. Called "the next Costa Rica," Nicaragua has many of the attributes visitors find in its southern neighbor but without the crowds, high prices and commercialism. Beset by a long revolution in the 1960s and '70s, Nicaragua has put that portion of its history behind it and is now considered the safest country in Central America.
Round-trip airfare is about $500; hotel and restaurant prices are about 50 percent less than those in Costa Rica. If you’re looking for high-end tourism, check out the luxurious new Mukul Beach Golf & Spa resort, an ecologically friendly oceanfront development on the country's Emerald Coast that features an 18-hole David MacLay Kidd-designed golf course.
When to go: Dry season, from January through April, brings reliably sunny weather but is the most expensive. Best value is during the green season, from May through September. It does occur to me that I had read about the prevailing wind effect of lake Nicaragua on the adjacent Pacific beaches results in daily brief rain during the rainy season, but not the lengthy deluge found in other areas of the country.
Travel Often and Safe.
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