¡Buena noches! Today we took a bus/walking tour around the city of Granada, its a small, colorful and rich in history city. We learned a lot about the civil war that took place here which killed thousands, even our tour guide's father. Geno, the tour guide took us to the cemetery which many of those people who died are now buried. The cemetery was above ground coffins due to the unpredictable rainy season they have here that could cause floods easily. After our bus/walking tour we stopped for lunch, it was fried tilapia with rice and beans. A lot of us, maybe 9/33, were not feeling good at all, including me. Nicaragua does not have the safest drinkable tap water, luckily I did not have any, but a combination of the heat, all carb diet and dehydration really got to me today. After we stopped for lunch, we then went on a boat tour around Lake Nicaragua. The lake includes 365 islands, most of which are bought by millionaires. Some islands range from $80,000-2 million. We saw the island of a owner of a grocery store here in Nicaragua, compared to Walmart, and man was it spectacular! One of the islands was a vacation home to a prestigious vet who brought some animals to live with him on his island, he brought 2 spider monkeys and 4 white faced monkeys and a few horses. 2 white faced monkeys passed away, however we saw the other 2 and the spider monkeys. They were so used to the vet and other people that they were not shy when our boat came up to the shore! I stuck out my hand from the boat and one hopped down to the roof and grabbed my hand!! I won't lie, I cried! We saw the spider monkeys as well and I got really closed to them as well, but I only got the go pro footage because of my extendable selfie stick, I could get even closer. We got back to the hotel at 3 o'clock and by that time I was absolutely exhausted and drained, I took a 2 1/2 hour nap as soon as I got into the room.




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