Pochomil - photos

Pochomil:

Our second destination in the Pacific coast of Nicaragua was Pochomil (surf oblige!). Pochomil is a beach close to Managua, the capital. It is not a town or village but a touristic place with some restaurants, bars and hotels.

At Pochomil, we were supposed to meet Dave and Neil who from San Juan Del Sur were supposed to come directly here. We arrived early afternoon and no sign of the boys. Well we were puzzled but seeing the place, we understood why the guys did not stay here: a couple of empty restaurants and bars and expensive hotels. Also no waves!! We were not certainly lucky for surf! Finally a woman from a restaurant remembered seeing them during the morning but they left the place straightaway. As searching for the boys took us long time, we decided to stay for the night in the small fishing village of Masachapa in a very basic place and the cheapest we have been so far ($5 each). Finding food and specially fish in this village was a nightmare, for a village dedicated to fishing what a surprise, isn't it? We spent a very bad night between the bad mattress (well Lee decided to spend the night on the floor), the mosquitos and the noise of the mangos falling in the metallic roof of our room due to the high wind. Who can imagine a small mango can make so much noise!!! I was jumping in the bed all night quite having a heart attack each time! And to top it off we had no water in the morning!
The next day, by mail, we had the story of the boys. On their way to Pochomil, the taxi driver told them that it was not a nice place so they stayed somewhere else overnight. Then the morning they caught a bus to Pochomil in order to meet us but they left before we arrived. Seeing the place, they decided to head off to Managua and take the bus the next morning for San Salvador. So we will meet them later in the playas there.

- Pochomil beach. Very well appreciated to play football, volley-ball...,
- Sunset on the beach. I like this picture with the dad and his son, hand in hand walking on the beach. For the people interested in surf, you can see how small were the waves!
- Moonrise. Bright and full, superb moon!
- This parrot was playing close to us while we had our breakfast (2 chocolate donuts, mmm...). It was like an acrobat with some nice figures with a foot on the rope, turning and watching us with pride. A true artist!
- The roof of our room and the mango tree full of green mangoes. Well half was on the roof and half on the floor. I like mangoes but at this moment I was regretting that! No worries I have passed my anger and I am still eating mangoes!!!