#Masaya Volcano

[chaletnz]

Nicaragua: Masaya Volcano

Finally, Walter returned with Wout and Boukje to our awaiting bus. Wout was on crutches and had great difficulty getting himself up the step to get inside and seated. Boukje passed his xrays to our group nurses Emily and Savannah who promptly put them up to the window to examine. The hospital's diagnosis was that he had fractured his hip and could not bear weight on it for at least 4 weeks. I think everyone knew it then but no one wanted to say it out loud - their trip, or Wout's at least, was over. But nonetheless they joined us all, still covered in black sand, as we drove the four hours from Leon to Granada. We stopped for a photo at Lake Xolotlan at about the halfway point. Traffic was backing up as we approached the Nicaraguan capital city of Managua so our driver pulled us in to a gas station for a toilet and snack/drink break. As soon as we entered, we discovered the toilets were out of order as there was no water at the gas station, however that didn't stop Charlie and Max ordering hot dogs and fried chicken and keeping us all waiting for 15 minutes in the bus. Cameron was fuming. We inched back onto the motorway in the gridlocked traffic, presumably the post-work rush hour of workers heading home from the city for the day. Managua was chosen as Nicaragua's capital because it was halfway between Leon and Granada the two main contenders and I suppose it has helped to shift business to a third city having them all in relatively close proximity. As we got down the road it became apparent that Managua was the place that international businesses (and casinos) came to set up shop. There was a Walmart, Bershka, Zara, TGI Fridays, and all of our other famous chain shops and restaurants. Once we had finally cleared the city and the sun was setting, we approached the entrance of Masaya volcano and collected our tour guide Byron. We'd all opted for paying $25 to get a private bus and make the drive from Leon to Granada via Masaya volcano otherwise we'd have been on a public bus - which looked very crowded and uncomfortable. Walter loved to tell Max that he'd have a hard time on public transport with his suitcase (we all had backpacks except him). At the entrance there was also a dark toilet without functioning lights but Wout was desperate and had us light the way for him to crutch in there. Byron told us some basics about Nicaragua as we drove the windy road up to the volcano crater viewpoint, including that minimum wage is about $200 a month and 55% of Nicaraguans are unemployed which surprised me as it seemed to be more expensive and better-off than El Salvador from a tourist perspective. The volcano itself was an incredible sight, particularly as I hadn't expected much. I'd paid the $25 not really fussed but not wanting to let the group down as some of them really wanted to do this activity. But it was amazing! It was dark once we reached the top and we could see a bright red glowing crater of fiery magma bubbling away and sending off a smoke plume into the distance. I took some photos of a Nicaraguan family and got chatting with them a bit, they told me that previously you could walk or drive right up to the crater with no barriers but since then there have been eruptions and tourists falling so security has been tightened, thank God! We arrived in Granada and were given 15 minutes to drop our bags and change before we were driven out to the Garden Cafe for a group dinner. I went for the chipotle chicken wrap and was certainly convinced their coffee would be good here for the morning...

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Boca del infierno, Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua

[breathofthewildyaverage]

I’m backkkk

We went to the lagoon, I forgot where it was but that was awesome it was so pretty

We also went to the volcano in Masaya but it was so smokey you couldn’t see anything so the pictures aren’t good

Then in the last day we visited the market in Masaya too, and that was awesome. It was so cool looking and all the stuff there is mostly all hand made. I bought a hammock for my mom, and wooden mug for my dad, and a bag for my sister. It was the coolest thing ever. We couldn’t get my phone to be able to send messages so I didn’t get to talk to my parents a lot so that was kinda sad but it’s all good

[shondea]

we bathe in the blood moon in berlin. make out in cathedrals, montreal to madrid in fallingwater, brush our skin across the bed. the masaya volcano paints our faces in red. now the landscape in your eye is a DESERT OF DEFEAT. i want to stay but i’ll turn to leave tonight we’ll abandon all we share. force a deep sleep and pretend we don’t care. i’d hate to put us up against yesterday. i guess what can’t be close must be far away. ‘CAUSE THE PAST WILL KILL THE PRESENT IF I LET IT! ( indie multimuse featuring lelouch vi brittiania. penned by THORN. )

[wimpydave]

This Week in Volcano News; Danger of a Large Eruption at Masaya; Iwo Jim...

[sunshinelittlethings]

September 23, 2023 - Saturday

Hello!

This is very sudden blog HAHAHAHA ngayon lang ako nagkatime and hindi pa nga dapat kasi dapat busy ako magreview ng bacte ko kasi wala pa ako sa kalahati pero heto ako tumatambay pa dito HAHAHAHAHA.

Anyway, life being a 3rd yr medtech student is not easy. I swear, parang linggo linggo umiiyak ako kasi kailangan ko maglet out ng emotions para kayanin pa ang susunod na linggo. Sobrang lala ng breakdown ko ngayon, kaya siguro hindi ako ganon nagbrebreakdown ng 1st yr and 2nd yr kasi itotodo ko pala sa 3rd yr HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. MY GOODNESS.

Anyway, masaya naman din kasi kasama ko mga kaibigan ko pero may mga kanya kanya kaming paces kaya hindi rin talaga madalas magkakasama, especially, etong exam week namin na medj naudlot pa kasi dahil kay smog ni Taal volcano. Namove yung mga exams namin next week at naiwan pa si Hema at Bacte T^T jusq po. Isa din yung Hema kailangan 1 week mo siya aaralin para magets mo ng malala. Kaso paano naman kami magkakaroon ng enough na araw para makapagreview? Puro kami comply ng activities last last week, hindi namin alam paano pagkakasyahin yung oras namin para magreview. Dapat nga may review akong sapat kaso hindi ko alam paano nga, sana sa midterm magawa ko siya kasi baka mabaliw ako :( mahirap na mga aaralin namin lalo.

Gusto ko magdaldal kaso kailangan ko na may gawin na related sa studies so yeah, see you soon tumblr ulit! Mwaaa

Song of the Day: We Belong Together - Mariah Carey

[nicatoons]

She is Chalchiuhtlicue, she is the guardian of the water, she was born in the Masaya Volcano, she along with her companions since pre-Hispanic times have fought against evil beings that threaten living beings and destroy the environment, causing wounds on the earth and harming people. the most innocent living beings.

Chalchiuhtlicue has control over the waters since no matter where she is, she can invoke the water when she needs it.

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Night view of inside crater and lava of Volcano Masaya, Nicaragua

[byneddiedingo]

Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, and Yoshi Kato in Immortal Love (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1961)

Cast: Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiji Sada, Nobuko Otowa, Akira Ishihama, Yukiko Fuji, Yoshi Kato, Kiyoshi Nonomura, Masakazu Tamura, Masaya Totsuka, Yasushi Nagata. Screenplay: Keisuke Kinoshita. Cinematography: Hiroshi Kusuda. Art direction: Chiyoo Umeda. Film editing: Yoshi Sugihara. Music: Chuji Kinoshita.

I'm a little surprised to find that Keisuke Kinoshita's screenplay for Immortal Love is "original." The film has the feeling of an adaptation from one of those doorstop "sins of the father" family sagas like East of Eden. It's full of melodramatic moments, including at least one rape and several suicide attempts, including a successful one in which the character jumps into a volcano. It spans three decades and is loaded with enough plot and characters to fill a much longer film, which is why it sometimes seems a little skimpy. The plot is set in motion when Heibei (Tatsuya Nakadai), the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from the invasion of Manchuria in 1932 with a crippling war injury. He spies the pretty Sadako (Hideko Takamine), the daughter of one of his father's tenants, but she loves Takashi (Keiji Sada), another tenant farmer's son who has also served in China. When Takashi returns he finds that Sadako has been raped by Heibei and is set to marry him. As the years pass, Sadako stays with Heibei, tending to him and his aging father, and bearing three children -- one of whom was conceived during the rape, a fact that will develop into a plot point. Takashi marries and moves away, but his wife, Tomoko (Nobuko Otowa), bears a kind of grudge against Sadako, her husband's first love. And things get complicated as the children grow up. The film works largely because of the actors, even though both Hideko Takamine and Tatsuya Nakadai, considerable performers, seem a little stretched to put across their characters. Heibei, for example, comes across as a deep-dyed villain until the very end, despite some closeups in which Nakadai seems to be trying to suggest the character's remorse for his villainy. And Takamine is faced with playing the dutiful wife to a man she despises, undermining him secretly and passive-aggressively. It's a tribute to both actors that they make the film as watchable as it is. Kinoshita tries some things that don't really work, like a ballad that bridges the time gaps between "chapters" (of which there are five), and the guitar-based score by his brother, Chuji Kinoshita, sounds like flamenco -- an odd choice for the very Japanese story and setting. Even the title given it for American distribution is askew -- none of the loves depicted in it seem particularly deathless. It was released in the United Kingdom as Bitter Spirit, which seems more appropriate. The film was Japan's entry for the foreign language film Oscar; it made the shortlist but lost to Ingmar Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly. 

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Masaya active volcano in Guatemala (at Volcán Masaya) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci0vK2IrulZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[chaletnz]

Xolotlan Lake, magma bubbling in Masaya volcano, dinner at the Garden Cafe in Granada.

[valerieullmerromanceauthor]

Only In Darkness by Brenda Stanley

Only In Darkness by Brenda Stanley

Only In Darkness Brenda Stanley Publication date: March 5th 2022 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Thriller Based on ancient Mayan mythology comes a story of bloodlust, love and the horrors of coming of age. In ancient Central America, the legend of the Camazotz: large, bat-like creatures that desire blood and terrorize the villages in search of prey. When the volcano, Masaya, erupts and kills the tribe…

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BOOK BLITZ | ONLY IN DARKNESS

BOOK BLITZ | ONLY IN DARKNESS

Only In DarknessBrenda StanleyPublication date: March 5th 2022Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Thriller Based on ancient Mayan mythology comes a story of bloodlust, love and the horrors of coming of age.In ancient Central America, the legend of the Camazotz: large, bat-like creatures that desire blood and terrorize the villages in search of prey. When the volcano, Masaya, erupts and kills the tribe…

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Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua [OC] [4466 × 6699] via /r/EarthPorn https://ift.tt/2ZXLYmY

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Time For A Break by JorgePaniagua

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Boca del infierno, Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua