Hello.
Just a heads up for seniors....
Please be advised that it is basically hotter than the hinges of Hades in the Central and South American countries.
If you are a senior on sun or heat sensitive meds, you would be well advised to seek a more accommodating climate.
I felt like I was melting. I had to take numerous cold showers or "rinses" a day just to lower my body temperature.
Also if you dress very modestly, you may have the sensation of wanting to tear all your clothes off!
And hair? Forget it. It will be wadded up and your bangs pulled back. You will perhaps, like me, be constantly rubbing the sweat off of your face and up into your hair in desperation.
You'll feel like you're melting!
I couldn't wait to get back to the states.
And I had packed loaded for a lifetime. Took everything I could possibly need.
Not smart.
Don't be cheap like me (over-committed?)
Take a vacation there FIRST to see if you can handle the heat.
Oh, and don't forget the humidity. It is not unlike living in a sauna.
Don't even get me started on the bugs.
I don't do scorpions!
Most of the writings and even some shows, like HGTV here back in the states, is all about "Paradise" and I was very, very discouraged from "saying anything bad about Nicaragua."
Well, what about telling the truth?
It is definitely not for everyone.
I came away facing the truth:
It is a 3rd world country.
It is hot, hotter, hottest by common description.
It is the 2nd poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
It has more bugs than any other nation on earth, reportedly.
1.2 million people get stung by scorpions every year globally and many die.
It smells like the hinges of Hades, too, on many occasions.
(One can step out of the grandest resort imaginable and right into sewer water
or sewage.)
So be advised. Get both sides.
Lovely country (many 1-dimensional picture post card shots)
Lovely, sweet people (but some really cliquish, bitchy expat women who do nothing but drink and smoke!)
Swimming in the ocean is amazing.
The sunsets are as stunning as the sunrises in my home town of Vacaville, CA.
It can have very reasonable rents for seniors although I got lied to and ended up getting soaked.
So again....weigh your options and be sure to visit first. Nice vacation.
"It's a great place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there!!"
Best regards,
SKB
Moving FROM Nicaragua
I have been to Nicaragua many times since 1969 and you are right about everything. If you can get climatized after 3 week's then you will make it. The people that live here are just as hot as you but they can't move to somewhere else. Bugs, they have there seasons too. Some time you have ant's then it's mosquitos. But again you can get accustomed to everything. We do need more real info about countries. I spent a week in a new condo I bought in San Juan del Sur, and every morning I would have to sweep out the centipedes that were crawling around on the first floor. After a while they stopped coming in but I did not want to walk across the floor in bear feet in the dark. Thank you for the great post.
You're welcome, Pancho !!
(And it was so nice not to get jumped on for telling the truth ....big grin)
Sign me
Loving it back in the states !
> It is a 3rd world country.
If you call Nicaragua a Third World country, you have never been in one.
>It is hot, hotter, hottest by common description.
I remember Death Valley was MUCH MUCH hotter!
>It is the 2nd poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
Please don t copy and paste this - between Nicaragua and Haiti are eternities!
>It has more bugs than any other nation on earth, reportedly.
Thanks to fumigation almost no mosquitoes in my house - which is sensational for a tropical country.
I have lived in a country where I was stung at least 20-30 times every evening.
The ants can be chased with vinegar or petrol. But it depends also on where you live in the city or in the countryside (me too I was not the happiest when I twice found a medium-size scorpion in my bedroom within 3 days!)
>1.2 million people get stung by scorpions every year globally and many die.
How many people die annually from crazy lunatic shooters in the US?
>It smells like the hinges of Hades, too, on many occasions.
Hmmm - which smell do you precisely mean?
(One can step out of the grandest resort imaginable and right into sewer water
or sewage.)
Everything is relative...
It's a 3rd world country
Hot
Poor
Smelly
Dirty
Beautiful
Full of scorpions.
And no, it's not all relative !
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it !!
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