Children playing on the beach near our hotel.Corinto is in the northwest corner of Nicaragua in the department of Chinandega. It is actually an island linked to the mainland by a small bridge and an isolated road for the freight trucks carrying cargo to the port. To us, the town was a cross between Bluefields and Granada - a funny little combination. The whole area is part of a beautiful estuary which we happened to travel through extensively (in a tiny and totally inadequate Suzuki Alto) due to bad researching. We didn't see any other tourists while we were there and I was told approximately 10 times by very kind citizens that I was likely to be robbed and attacked while Eric was working and I was by myself on the beach. I stayed close to the restaurants so they could keep an eye on me although I didn't feel threatened for one minute.
We originally went up north so Eric could cover a US Navy Medical Ship that was stationed off the coast to perform surgeries. Here is Eric's story on the medical ship.
We traveled to a really high end hotel that essentially services people with yachts. It was very hard to get to over land. I watched an amazing sunrise the day we had to leave since we were forced to leave at 5 am to make it home before dark!
