| DOCUMENTS For EU citizien its 7$ to get an ugly stamp on the
passport, while to get out of the country its 3$ and, if you have to get a stamp or not,
to me remained uncleared
MONEY
The currency is the cordoba (1US$= 17.4C$).
US$ are well accepted throughout but not everywhere. Hard to be believed, the change ratio
of the black change at the borders is equal or even better of the one in the country.
HEALTH
I took clorichina for malaria since it seems
that here malaria is still weak. Honestly despite being the rainy season I didn't notice
many mosquitoes, anyway I used abundantly repellent
GENERAL
TIPS
There's a 32$ tax to fly out
of the country from Managua internatina airport
During the low season (June) very often it's
difficult to reach the minimun number for escursion to the volcanoes (2-3 people)
"Footprint giude" (I had 2nd
edition) by R. Leonardi turned out really well done and updated. Sorry Lonely Planet but
this time you loose :-)
DANGERS
In the village in the mountains there are drunks who can be quite annoying while you stand there hours waiting for the bus
I cannot tell you any personal bad
experience in the capital Managua whose reputation is among the worst I've ever heard
concerning big cities. It shouldn't be really bad during the day, even to me it didn't
seem so attractive. However after the dawn it's not supposed to be the place where you
wish to be
Generally speaking in the towns with
the darkness robberies are not so rare
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