Our Journey to Ometepe

After two marvelous and relaxing days in Granada it was time to depart on our next adventure. This time to the volcanic island in the middle of The Lake Nicaragua - La Isla de Ometepe. Ometepe has two volcanoes - Conception & Maderas. In order to get there we intended to get a taxi to the local bus station from which (supposedly) buses leave quite frequently for Sam Jorge(the departing town for the ferry to the island). To our huge surprise there were no buses leaving for the rest of the day due to the elections. Hmm.... so we just stayed in our partially falling apart taxi and paid our non English speaking cab driver $50 to take us all the way to the ferry (about 1.5hr drive). On the way there we picked up his wife to keep him company on this long journey. We arrived at the ferry only to find out that we had another 3 hours to wait as the service was limited due to... you guessed it... the elections... those damn elections. Luckily, the local bar was willing to server us alcohol as long as we masked it and put it out of sight in case cops came by... no problem... right! We passed the time by drinking and playing cards.
On the ferry ride over we climbed up on the top of the ferry and hung out with about 30 or so backpackers heading to the same destinations. We met a few interesting people... mostly Canadian... guess they don't like to spend winter back home.
Two or so hours later after a beautiful and bumpy ride through and around a variety of farm animals, we finally arrived at our destination - Villa Paraisio. Chris was right it was a beautiful place... lil paradise on the shore of the lake that looked more like an ocean rather than a lake. Chris was telling me about this beautiful beach this places was supposed to have.... the best on the island...but there was none... was he laying to me? hmm... Later on we found out that there really usually is a beach but not during these months. We would have to wait until February to see the beach again.
We finished the day... yep you guessed it... with Media Servida (not too many cops walking by here, so it was ok to serve alcohol)...and a delicious dinner.