diferencias

What I'm learning about: I wanted to make a list of the differences I saw between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. I am excited to go to Panama so I can really get a good idea of three totally different countries in Central America.

• The bus system is not as nice as in Costa Rica. They use school busses and pack them full of people. Lots of people ride in the back of pick-up trucks. Right after we crossed the border we saw a guy asleep in the back of a truck filled with fruit.
• People are darker skinned than in Costa Rica. There is less of a Spanish/white influence.
• There are sidewalks and roundabouts! Lots of them. There are hardly any sidewalks on the streets of Costa Rica, and there are no roundabouts at all in Costa Rica.
• More people walk along busy roads to get where they need to go. More poverty means less people who are able to buy cars.
• The captial of Nicaragua was a very dirty city. Managua has lots of trash in the streets.
• However, Nicaragua has a much better road system than Costa Rica. The roads do not have potholes in Nicaragua.
• Kids are allowed to roam the streets. We saw sooo many homeless children. One kid was standing on the side of the road with a machete! Something like that would definitley not happen in the United States, or in Costa Rica.
• There is a lot more livestock in Nicaragua. People will have their cows, horses, and bulls tied to the side of the highway. People also use them as transportation. There were many horses attached to carts; that was a very popular way of transportation because you do not have to pay for gas.

These are just some of my observations from exploring in Nicaragua for a week.

Con mucho amor.