Granada Bound

After Starting in Leon and trekking down to Granada at the beginning of the trip to meet up with Garrett we are now coming back to Granada to give it another chance...well at least stay for more than 6 hours.

As the group minused one member: Rose; me, Garrett and Juan headed to Granada to some sort of site seeing and see what the colonial city has to offer. We checked back into the Bearded Monkey, dropped off the bags and headed out. This time it was daytime so it was a whole new world. Lots of people in the streets, food carts everywhere and random, nice shops all dispersed inside the colonial buildings. We did typical touristy things by walking into every shop and taking photos of weird walls that locals couldn't wrap there heads around. One of the shops we ran into was a Nicaraguan Cigar factory/museum. Well thats what they called it. Pretty much was 4 tables, 2 people at each table making high quality cigars. Actually pretty rad b/c I've never seen how they do such magic. Before, I thought it was one paper and they stuff tobacco to make the cigar. I was wrong...They get about 10-15 flat tobacco leave and layer them on top of each other and then roll it like sushi at the same time. Thus, no cut up tobacco like I imagined. Cool right. I considered buying some for my once a year cigar smoking session but passed because my bag is just getting out of control.

After the museum or just standard work shop we ventured back into the city looking for beer tank tops to buy. Simple right? Not, because we are now stingy, and won't pay retail price for these 25 cent t-shirts they try and sell for $5. We probably walked to each shop and tried to barter but no response. Failure in Granada. Oh well.

Besides walking around all day, Granada is pretty basic colonial town. People relate it to Antigua, Guatemala but it really has no comparison. Antigua is way better. Better yet, just different. Granada has the same ideas with Spanish lessons around each corner but a bit more sketchy at night and not as safe. A few days here and you don't really need to come back but worth the visit. Two separate visits here was just about enough.

The night life on the other hand is pretty fun. Random stories of jumping around from cab to cab trying to find certain clubs ended in some crazy stories. Those stories need personal explanations from the source. Ask me when I get back.