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Nicaragua Remains Comfortable but Complex

By Sarah Lemanczyk
Special to the Pioneer Press

By Central American standards, Nicaragua is huge — with cowboy towns and coffee farms stretching north to the Honduran border, impenetrable jungle and occasional Spanish forts blanketing the Caribbean Sea’s Mosquito Coast and postcard-perfect surfing towns lining the Pacific shore. And surrounded by all this natural drama (19 active volcanoes alone) are two rival cities: Leon and Granada.

Like New York and Los Angeles, or say Minneapolis and St. Paul, these two great cities have some similarities and plenty of differences. Put another way, while all of Nicaragua echoes with the peels of ice cream bells and Catholic Mass, Leon is full of heady intellectualism and crumbling paint while Granada is conservative and the sidewalks are level.

Read the whole article at http://www.twincities.com/travel/ci_25724285/nicaragua-remains-comfortable-complex.