So Kash and I are now in Laramie. We got in late Sunday night and classes start on Monday. We still have no internet at home so I cannot put any pictures up, but hopefully soon. I will post the classes that we are taking if anyone is interested. (not that anyone is reading this...)
But enough of that, I am now going to fulfill my duty and continue to write about our travels in Nica. I got through the first week!
On July 13th, we got back from our trip to the beach. Time to get serious and study Spanish, right?
Yeah right. We had class in the afternoon, but in the morning, to reward ourselves for all of our hard work at the beach, we went up o one of the nearby Volcanoes to go on a zipline tour. The volcano is about 1/2 hour from Granada, so we all pile into a van and head up to the volcano. We got there a little early, so Kash and I decided to walk through the butterfly 'museum’ , which is not really a museum but just on really big netted room with tons of butterflies in it.
This should start to appear as a re-occurring theme in this here blog, but this country, and any tropical country has about 50 times more life and more types of life than it does up in North America where we live. So of course there were all kinds of crazy butterflies and moths in the museum, but three especially stuck out. One was this brownish moth with eye-spots that was remarkable for being about as wide as my face with it’s wings spread out. The second is a butterfly called the crystal butterfly that has light blue wings on the edge, but most of the wing is actually see-through like a dragonflies wings. Pretty cool. The final butterfly is not one that we saw in the reserve, but saw often walking in the rainforest, is this large butterfly with totally black outer wings, and a bright sky-blue interior, so when it flies along in the darker jungle it looks like flashes of bright blue against the dark background of the jungle.
OK, enough about bugs. Have you ever gotten close enough to butterflies to look at their insect bodies? Pretty gross basically. So we head up this really steep mountain path to do the ‘canopy tour’. ‘Canopy tour’ means you climb to the top split of a 100 foot tropical tree and then do 20 or so zip-lines from tree to tree through the forest, until you reach the ground.
This, needless to say, is a ton of fun. We did the zip-lines normally, backwards, superman-style, upside-down, upside-down and backwards, Bouncing up and down, trying to de-rail, etc. Good fun, well worth the $30 or so dollars it costs, which is a pretty outrageous cost for Nicaragua.
Next time, the second part of our day.
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