Traveling to Matagalpa Nicaragua with Family 🇳🇮
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Today the family and I are heading up into the Nicaraguan Highlands to visit the primary mountain city of #matagalpa in #nicaragua where we are heading for a long weekend including a festival. #walkingtour #travel
3 September 2022
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That's for making these. You have a real eye for the details.
Thanks so much!
Loving the walking around and showing all the streets of this cool city! Thank you!
Thanks, and my pleasure. I love doing these. So great to get an excuse to go see so many places.
Gorgeous city. The bus ride looks fun.
It was!
Fantastic! Matagalpa seems like my kind of place!
I loveeeeee matagalpa!!! I am from there! Walked those streets 😢 missss it!
Another great video Scott and hats off to you for traveling like you do. I don't have the patience for all that so have to have my own vehicle. Nice city Matagalpa and I will definitely check it out someday.
It's a definite must see. The entire mountain region is really just so great. It's a large region with so much to do.
More city walks, this is great.
Thanks.
Loved this video. I had secured a room at La Buena Onda before I saw the video so your words were reassuring. Thanks again for the content!
awesome. enjoy your stay. i love Matagalpa.
Scott, the word is "empalme", which means a T-shaped road intersection. It's context-specific, so if they tell you to get off at el empalme, they mean the main one for that specific route.
OMG, that makes so much more sense!
Correct. And it makes sense a couple of years ago where an Empalme sometimes would mean the end of the paved road. Now, where most roads are in excellent conditions, there are many T-shaped intersections that it wouldn’t make sense given an “empalme a Managua” as an address xD.
@@alejandromendieta5486 Yeah. So many good roads now. It's a different place.
Thanks again, Scott. Matagalpa looks like it would be 'right up my alley'. Dreaming of a small apt in Leon and second small apt in Matagalpa...cant wait to visit and feel it out. (love the maps and graphics addition)
I'm the same, I would like a place in both places and hop back and forth depending on my mood. And thanks!
Thank you for sharing!
Great video, great Channel !
Thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you so much! It's great having you join the channel.
I like your videos, also they help me to improve my listening English skill. When you come back to Matagalpa city I would like to take a walk with you. 😊
Bendiciones.
That's great. And for sure, watch for me to be traveling up there again!
I’ve heard of “enpalme” which means: road interchange. I know this from childhood when living in Nicaragua. It’s usually where roads and busses take different directions.
There are a couple of famous ones in Nicaragua. Like the Empalme San Isidro near Esteli and Sebaco. And the one at Izapa near Leon.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog lived in Matagalpa for about 5 years, right before the civil war started in 79, then we were forced to take shelter in a nearby finca for about 3 months. Despite the dangerous conditions of war, I had a great experience in the finca. Moved around the country quite a bit due my father’s work in telecommunications.
Muy bonita ciudad.
I would love to see rental houses in Matagalpa and Esteli. 😊
Us too, that would be fun. We need to get up there and do some filming!
“EMPALME” de San Isidro. Honestly, do not know about the origin of this word, but it is often used for small stops between cities.
Apparently it is like "intersection" or a Tee.
GOod one.
Empalme is basically interchange.
That's what I've now learned. Makes so much more sense.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog but not like those in the US. I think empalme is basically an intersection with departmental highways leading to different cities/towns in Nicaragua. Usually there’s only a gas station and a couple of shops or vendors. An example would be Sébaco, in this case it would be a town/empalme.
@@alejandromendieta5486 oh!! i get it. that makes sense like Telica.
Also check out the Centro Cultural de Guanuca which you pass by at 25:09. A lot of nationally known and internationally known acts performed there - Norma Helena Gadea, the theater group Nixtayolero, I'm sure the Mejia Godoy brothers at some point, and also my band! (we were barely known in Matagalpa).
What is your band? What do you play?
A lot of people drink alcohol in Nicaragua, but very few can handle it. I am glad you did not get hurt, stay safe and thank you for sharing.
Im from Nicaragua 🙏🏻🇳🇮🙏🏻 no one is gonna disrespect you or hurt u here Nicaragua is rich in culture we are a good people u can walk anywhere peacefully as long u don’t mess around with political stuff u ll be ok
At 9:09, you walked by the two cuban-style "modulos" 4 story buildings near the cancha de brigadistas. I lived in one of the top story apartments in the early 90s. We got water up that high maybe once a week during the dry season.
That's so cool! I'm watching now to see which ones they are.
Found them, that was easy to spot. The two yellow buildings. Which one were you in? I know exactly where those are, that's right in the middle of town. Of course, town was a lot smaller in the 90s!
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog I lived in the northeastern most unit on the 4th floor. The widow of the architect/engineer who designed them lived in the southern/western building closest to the cancha de brigadistas on the 1st floor northern unit. His name was Róger Hamguien, and he was killed by a claymore mine (paid for by your country and mine) laid by the Contras in the late 80s. His son, last I heard, is an engineer for the Alcaldia. Yes, the town has grown since the 80s and 90s, but probably the biggest change has been the amount of paved roads. Previously, many of those roads going up into the hills perpendicular to the 2 main streets were for the most part dirt, and during rains, you needed 4 wheel drive vehicles to get up them. In general, roads now are way better, both within cities and between them.
10:34 - Cell phone store of Sara & Ervin - Ana's family!
OMG, that's super cool. I had no idea where it was. #notsponsored LOL
Actually there's a direct bus Leon-Matagalpa, It just takes 2.5 hours
There is but we were not able to get it. It only runs at very specific times and fills up fast.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Yes you'r right. it's kind a problem there is not a good connection between north and west. Same happens with Chinandega-Matagalpa. If you have plans to visit Chinandega let me know, it will be great talk to you about my place.
@@carlostellez2274 I'm up there from time to time. It really isn't very far away :)
So Scott, although it is cooler in Matagalpa, it still gets up in the mid to high 80s, right ?
Thx !
It can, yeah. There are definitely hot days there. But they are the exception, not the daily norm. It's basically the same weather as Leon with more rain and clouds with a -10F modifier. So Leon will hit 100, Matagalpa will hit 90. Leon CAN drop to 72, Matagalpa CAN drop to 62. And so forth.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog what’s the coldest town in Nicaragua during “winter”?
@@alejandromendieta5486 Jinotega for large cities.
My ciry
Beautiful city… have you been in Boaco ?
I have not, it is VERY high on my list of must see places yet. It's one of the two biggest cities that I've not visited yet. I really hope to be there soon so that I can do some filming. I need to see more locations. I've heard great things about it.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog indeed, you will enjoy the peaceful life here, the people, and the safety. Hotel hacienda Sánchez is a good option :)… I am from Boaco so please let me know if there is anything I can assist you and your family when you come to visit my hometown:).
Thank you, I will! I'll check out the hotel, too.
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I'll get that figured out shortly for you :)
You don't show the center of the city, just a neighborhood, and it's the least charismatic
Check the other videos. I walked the city for days.