An old colonial town, Leon has a really pretty parque central, plenty of crumbling churches and the biggest Cathedral in Central America. During the 1500's Leon was constantly at war with Granada - another colonial city - for power, until the village of Managua was chosen as the capital to end the feud. Leon is now the main university town and is known as a political hotbed, there's Sandinista graffiti all over the city.
We spent a night in a pretty colonial hotel with a roof garden that looked over the city, so I managed to get some good snaps over the roof tops as the sun was going down. Ben's friend Phillipa, a really cool chick from London town, flew into Managua and taxi-ed it down to Leon to join us on our trip. So we had a few celebratory rums before turning in to get ready for some volcano boarding action the next morning...
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