Volcano!

I'm posting some pics of the hike I took up Volcano Telica in the volcano belt of the West coast of Nicaragua. It was a beautiful scenic hike, through corn and bean fields. We rested under a grapefruit tree where I ate a tart green fruit. When we reached the top I felt like I was on top of the world. We had a beautiful view of the other volcanoes in the distance, fields as far as the eye could see far below, and the open steaming crater of the volcano. Later we climbed up to peer over the edge of the crater. It was like looking straight into the core of the earth. And scary too, because the walls of the crater were steep and it felt like you could just stumble right over the eduge. We camped below the crater in a flat valley strewn with volcanic rocks and watched the sunset from on top of the world.