Massaya

Here is a typical Nicaraguan bus station scene.  Rows of colorful buses with tons of street vendors selling everything from ice cream to empanadas...

...to live chickens.  And everything in between.  We walked past vendors selling toothbrushes, shirts, produce, brooms, haircuts, everything you could possibly imagine. 

We kepts looking for the "nice" part of Massaya. Well, here's the truth.  There is no nice part of Massaya.  It's all totally sketchy.  However, we did find a decent hostel after an hour walk around town. 

The main reason we came here was to walk along the edge of Volcan Massaya.  Unfortunately, when we arrived at the gate they said it was closed for two weeks because the volcano was too active.  It was throwing huge chunks of lava all around and producing bug gusts of smoke.  Bummer!