BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – Since Bainbridge’s Kim and Ela Esterberg retired, they’ve typically spent a couple months each year on Ometepe Island in Nicaragua, enjoying their house and the friendships they’ve ...

OMETEPE ISLAND, Nicaragua — An island of dusty dirt roads, small brick houses and wandering livestock wouldn’t seem to have much in common with one of the Puget Sound area’s most affluent communities.

As Nicaragua quickly becomes a favored tourist destination for many travelers, the time to visit is now. In the heart of the country lies Central America's largest lake called Lake Nicaragua, ...

OMETEPE ISLAND, Nicaragua – Nicaragua’s newest airport is officially open and that means it’s even easier to get to the enchanting Ometepe Island in the middle of Lake Nicaragua. OMETEPE ISLAND, ...

In its focal point where the ferry boats come after a sweaty, slow and chugging trip from Rivas and then San Jorge, there’s quite a large crowd of tourists who come here: either escaping their busy ...

Virtually the first thing I laid eyes on in Nicaragua was Isla de Ometepe. Besieged by taxi drivers at the hectic border, I caught a ride with an American backpacker and her Australian surfer paramour ...

Virtually the first thing I laid eyes on in Nicaragua was Isla de Ometepe. Besieged by taxi drivers at the dusty, hectic border, I caught a ride with a college-aged American backpacker and her ...

OMETEPE, Nicaragua Any local guide will tell you, a climber should not attempt an ascent of Nicaragua's Concepcion volcano by its south- ern flank. It's too fragile, and volcanologists fear it will ...

OMETEPE ISLAND, Nicaragua — A stiff wind shoves the battered little ferry, radio blaring from the open-windowed pilothouse, as it chugs across Lake Nicaragua toward the island of Ometepe. Locals doze ...

Getting there: Delta and Sun Country fly nonstop in the winter from Minneapolis to Liberia, Costa Rica, 75 miles from San Juan del Sur and Ometepe. Take a pleasant, cheap bus ride from Liberia to the ...