This land is beautiful and untouched. The people are so warm and welcoming. As i said before the island is made up of two volcanoes forming an hourglass shaped island. A dirt road circles both volcanoes connecting about a dozen or so villages. We decided to stay on the Maderas side of the island. Thats the inactive volcano. We found a hostel in Merida, one of the small villages of Ometepe, called Monkey Island Hostel. The hostel got its name from the small offshore island near the farm which is inhabited by a family of squirrel monkeys. Funny thing is that nowhere else on Ometepe are squirrel monkies found except on monkey island but howler monkies and whitefaced monkies are everywhere. No one knows why. The island has about 100 Kilometers of lakeside beaches and its covered in primary jungle forest and farm land. Horses and cattle run wild and the birds are pretty nice. Its so peaceful here.
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