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December 04, 2007
Nica 2007: La Boda De Chana y Jorge (Managua)
I'm holding off on posting too much about the wedding to try and give Chanita some time to go through all the photos A and I gave her and post them herself. Until then, some photos from our first couple of days in Managua and Granada:
Managua:
Managua has some of the best street art / graffiti / murals
The Parque de la Paz was a huge bonfire of weapons used during the Sandinista revolution, burnt and concreted over:
It's a country in a big hurry to forget it's troubled past. This is the Somoza family grave. The Somozas rules Nicaragua for over 40 years, bleeding it dry (they had some great friends, too)
The shadow of Sandino on top of Tiscapa:
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Granada and Las Isletas
Granada's a beautiful, chill city that's being slowly re-invaded by Gringos buying it up. Huge numbers of expats walking the streets. 
We got to see a funeral procession:
We climbed a belltower for a great view of the city:
At dusk, we took a boat around "Las Isletas" - a group of ~365 islands formed when Volcan Mombacho erupted a few hundred years back:
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