Overnight Tours: Leon & Surroundings

(3 days/2 nights)

Category: relaxing
Note: recommended on the week ends, the city gets very lively.

Managua-San Jacinto-Léon

*DAY 1. Leon

Arrive in Leon, accommodation in your hotel. Free afternoon, night in Leon.

*DAY 2. Leon- Boiling mud at San Jacinto- Leon-

Breakfast in the hotel. Then, go for a guided city tour. You will visit the main monuments, the cathedral and churches, a beautiful art gallery and more.
Lunch in Leon with your guide.
In the afternoon, we will drive east (50 minutes from Las Peñitas or 25 minutes from Leon) to observe a volcanic phenomena, the boiling mud at San Jacinto, very humble village. Those are geysers coming out from the earth, with a temperature of 300 Degrees Celsius. You can get just a few steps away from the geysers!

Free evening in Leon. Several bars and restaurants are serving the local dishes in this University City, very lively on the week ends. Discotheques are available too.

El Calvario Church, Leon

*DAY 3. Leon- …

After breakfast, transfer (not included in rate) to your next place to visit.

Package includes:

2 hotel nights with breakfast (see our hotels selection):

Meals :

- Breakfast included;
- Lunch included on day 2. One drink per person per meal, extra drinks are charged
-Transportation in day 2.
-A specialized guide for the tours, day 2.
-All the activities mentioned and included in the program and the entrance fees (museums and art gallery, boiling mud…).
-Expenses of the guide-driver.

Not included:

*Other meals;
*Other expenses.
Note: this package can be modified if you wish, including for example the visit of Old Leon (“Leon Viejo) or Juan Venado Island if you are looking for something more historical…

Optional on day 2:

Cerro Negro active volcano
(see description below)

Category: strenuous.

After breakfast go for an adventure day to discover one of Nicaragua’s monsters: Cerro Negro active volcano. Born in 1850, it is one of the most active volcanoes in Nicaragua. Cerro Negro “Black Mount” is the most recent of a group of four very young cinder cones in the central Maribios. Last big eruption was August 1998…
Hiking to the top takes less than an hour; a sort of trail has been made in the rocks and volcanic ashes. Temperature can be very hot as there is no vegetation at all, ranges between 30 and 42-48 Celsius (according to season; once you hike the breeze makes it easier) and the overwhelming view once we reach the active crater will be the reward you had ever imagined, sulfur coming out from many places, crater and also from the shores (many crevasses). From the top, you will also observe the crater of Telica, another active volcano, as well as the Pacific Ocean, 20 miles away. After a walk around the crater we will hike down and drive back to the City of Leon.