Last Saturday night we took the night tour at Masaya Volcano, which is 20 minutes south of Managua. A friend of ours from AsoFenix, Dave, invited us to join him and his friends on the tour and since we had never done it we thought why not. We have visited the volcano during the day several times. There are four craters, but only one is active and constantly emits sulfur gas. The tour starts before it gets dark, so we saw the volcano in the day time as well as hiked to various lookouts of the craters. As it started to get dark we headed to the caves that were c
reated by lava flow a long time ago, which bats now inhabit. At this point we were given flash lights and hard hats...which you can see by the picture. While in the cave we saw a lot of bats. All of the guys beside Seth and Dave were scared of the bats, so that was funny because the bats did not bother the two girls in the group. There was one part we went in that had bats swarming the entrance, so we just sat below them, I took several pictures and luckily one turned out. The tour ended back at the active crater where the guide showed
us the lava, which was a reddish glow. The crater is 250 meters below the rim, where we were standing, so it was hard to see the lava other than a glow of red in the smoke (I was not able to get a picture). We had a great time and enjoyed doing something new, which was a good reminder for us to continue exploring Nicaragua.
Last Saturday night we took the night tour at Masaya Volcano, which is 20 minutes south of Managua. A friend of ours from AsoFenix, Dave, invited us to join him and his friends on the tour and since we had never done it we thought why not. We have visited the volcano during the day several times. There are four craters, but only one is active and constantly emits sulfur gas. The tour starts before it gets dark, so we saw the volcano in the day time as well as hiked to various lookouts of the craters. As it started to get dark we headed to the caves that were c
reated by lava flow a long time ago, which bats now inhabit. At this point we were given flash lights and hard hats...which you can see by the picture. While in the cave we saw a lot of bats. All of the guys beside Seth and Dave were scared of the bats, so that was funny because the bats did not bother the two girls in the group. There was one part we went in that had bats swarming the entrance, so we just sat below them, I took several pictures and luckily one turned out. The tour ended back at the active crater where the guide showed
us the lava, which was a reddish glow. The crater is 250 meters below the rim, where we were standing, so it was hard to see the lava other than a glow of red in the smoke (I was not able to get a picture). We had a great time and enjoyed doing something new, which was a good reminder for us to continue exploring Nicaragua.
