Nicaragua

Sunset on Isla de Ometepe.

We floated down the Río Frío from the Costa Rica border on a tiny boat packed with locals, through silent mangroves, past empty wooden huts, gliding alongside herons as they flew just inches from the light ripples. It was some two hours to San Carlos, the Nicaraguan entry point, but we first had to make a stop at an isolated military outpost where a line of soldiers greeted us with stern expressions.