For $25 per
person Big Foot Hostel offers Volcano Boarding trips any day of the week when
they can get enough people to sign up. The group got picked up at 9:00am in the
morning and everyone piled into the back of a pickup truck for a bumpy 45
minute ride to the base of Volcano Cerro Negro. Along the drive we passed
several settlements and waved to the workers leading their cattle to the farms.
Climbing Volcano
Cerro Negro
We arrived to a
small ranch styled building where each person paid another $100 Cordobas or $5
US dollars entrance fee to the volcano park. Everyone was then handed an orange
bag and a wooden board with a laminated piece on the bottom for speed. The
board was large and a bit awkward to carry so I gave mine to Jason and I
offered to carry his light orange bag and our daypack. Our guide, Danny from
England, led us up a rocky path to the top of the volcano’s crater. As we
walked he educated us on Cerro Negro and about Nicaragua’s volcanic chain which
we could see in the distance.
Aracely Castellani
(to be continued)
