I can't believe today concludes this memorable 4-week journey but every adventure must eventually come to an end!
Wait a minute, we still have an entire day here so let's focus on that for now.
We spent the morning walking around the city of Masaya. We found a nice promenade by a lagoon right at the base of volcanoes. It was lovely!
And it was a nice park with free outdoor gym. You can even see the morning zumba class…
Back home, when you go to a zumba class and you don't wear a cute sexy outfit, you are the reject of the class. Here, they don't care. They all wear jeans and a t-shirt. Isn't it cool?!
By the time we walked back to the central park of Masaya near our hostel, it was lunch time and we were hungry. The cool thing with cities in Nicaragua is that citizens are very present in their public areas like parks. They occupy those spaces, maintain and clean them without waiting on the city to do it, they have shops and restaurants with chairs and tables everywhere! It's super lively!
So we decided to grab a bite there for lunch. Steve wanted a hot dog so I found a corner stall that had hot dogs on their menu. So we sat there and ordered 2 hot dogs… and got this!
I don't know if our weinner got lost on it's way but we got a bun with a bit of butter. I don't know if it's their version of a low fat hot dog or what but it was not exactly what we expected. And of course, they didn't speak English so we just decided to eat it and have something else on the street. At least, it was super cheap!
We went to the famous artisan market… and basically found the same key chains, magnets, wooden toys and clothes than every other latin countries we visited. We were a bit disappointed because we were really hoping to find more original and artistic items. We still enjoyed our time there because unlike the artisan markets in Mexico or Dominican Republic, they were not insistent and just very happy that we take the time to visit their shop. Steve bought good leather flip flops because the ones he had were so worn that they were thinner than my thin cellphone! They were at a point where they were begging Steve not to wear them and they were trying to escape with each step.
I also bought a few things and we left because, despite the amazing hot dog we had for lunch, we were still hungry. So we had a quesillo on the street. This is a local meal which consists of cheese and marinated onions in a corn tortilla with "creme fraîche". It's simple but really good and less than a dollar each.
We then stopped in a barbershop as Steve wanted to have a last trim before leaving Nicaragua. It was a young woman and she was a super perfectionist! She took one hour, used 4 blades, did a super job and was much more delicate but even though Steve paid almost nothing the other times, this time, it was ridiculously cheap! She charged $3.50! And it's not even a joke!
We then decided to walk to a local market. It looked quite small from the street but it was the biggest inner market we visited in Nicaragua, but also the less structured. So, of course, we got lost! Between chickens, rice, beans, socks, cleaning products, clothes… everything was all over the place! And we were trying to avoid rows with chicken and pork juice on the ground because Steve had his new flip flops and let's say that I didn't particularly affectionate having toes marinating in chicken juice. Not that I was planning in licking them but still, it's not something super fun. And, having to live with the shower we had, I didn't want to have to do the toe rinsing dance for 10 minutes! We eventually found our way back, after buying a few homemade local sweet treats that Steve and I had planned to share. I always like sharing sweet treats with Steve because I usually end up having it all. He always wants to try them but rarely likes them. And this time was not an exception! Oh and we never saw so many types of rice!
We left the market, walked back to our hostel and got ready for dinner. Since it was our last dinner in Nicaragua, we wanted to play safe as we wanted to enjoy this evening. So we went back to the same place than the night before. Again, we had a great dinner! We had fun remembering the adventures, good and less funny, of the trip, we spoke about good memories of other trips, we chatted and we had a good time.
But we had to head back to our room because we had to pack everything, or should I say make everything fit in our backpacks. We now had to find room for a big aluminium pan, 2 bottles of rum and a few more souvenirs. And we had to order a taxi in Spanish for tomorrow morning at 3:30 and make sure our host would understand. "Necesito un taxi a la aeropuerto para mañana, a la tres y media de la mañana." I don't know if it's how you say that but I know I wasn't too far. And, the most important thing is that he understood. And the least interesting thing was that they were charging us twice the price we paid to get there because it was in the middle of the night. Oh well, at least, it confirmed that he really got what I said!
We packed everything and made everything fit, which is a miracle, turned on 2 alarms and we went to bed early.
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