Get to know Ometepe on a Rural Community Adventure

Travel Ometepe 3 days 2 nights

Sharing with the islanders in their daily activities, you can stay in specialized hotels or in family homes, fish with a cast net or hook, ride a kayak or a boat and tour the island on horseback or by jeep, making strategic stops to rest in magical places. , eat delicious food and enjoy the natural beauties of this World Biosphere Reserve.

The experience of this tour is a personalized accompaniment in Ferry reservations, Hotels, Restaurants and different recreational activities with families on the island, according to the interests of each visitor. You can visit small family gardens and tobacco or banana plantations.

There are many options for beaches in Ometepe, as well as hiking in its two volcanoes and places of more specialized archaeological interest.

The visitor will enjoy typical meals made in family homes, as well as a varied international menu, ranging from Asian fusion to artisanal Italian. Some places offer products from their own garden and make their pasta in house. Vegetarians welcome!

Ometepe offers unique experiences of a rural world, with people so original in their customs that sometimes it is necessary to sit in silence to appreciate the amount of stimuli that nature and culture is giving us. The backyard chickens, the milking of cows and goats, horses free on every path, exotic birds traveling between the mountains and the lake. Magical representations in the art of the petroglyphs hidden in the hill.

First day.

We offer transfers from any point in Nicaragua to the Port of San Jorge in Rivas. There you take the ferry to Ometepe to enjoy an hour of sailing on Lake Cocibolca.

The island is large (it measures 276 km2) so the transfer to the hotel could take up to an hour by car. The trip continues to the lodging site of your choice.

After check-in We will go to dinner and then participate in a party with live music and prepare for the next day.

Second day. (Beach or Volcano Option).

Enjoy the lake in the morning. Swim a little with a view of the two volcanoes and learn about the cultural projects with a community library and popular music on Istian Beach. Move towards Mérida to see other scenes on the island and wait for the sunset at Playa Mangos with the spectacular view of the Concepción Volcano.

The Maderas Volcano offers hiking through a humid tropical jungle and depending on your physical condition you can reach the crater with the Lagoon or rest at a viewpoint.

Third day.

You will have the energy to visit the natural turquoise pool of the water eye. You must immediately move to be able to walk on the water at Jesús Maria Point and reach the Ferry just in time to return to San Jorge.

  • Reservations 3 business days in advance.
  • Breakfasts available from U$5, lunches and dinners from U$8.
  • Ferry ticket U$14 per light vehicle

Meeting places

  • Airport: Augusto C. Sandino.

  • Coffee House. Rivas.

  • Puma gas station. San Jerónimo Rotonda. Masaya.

  • UNO gas station. Jean Paul Genie Roundabout. Managua.

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