Our daughter is working for a study abroad program in El Salvador and she has the week before Easter off and we were going to go down and travel with her. We were thinking of Costa Rica but have read horror stories about "Semana Santa." I am assuming this could be a problem throughout Central America and unfortunately we are very late in booking for this upcoming end of March. Thanks for any suggestions.
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Hi!
Nicaragua is a friendly, peaceful, rustic country entirely unspoiled by mass tourism - so don't be afraid about it. Of course Semana Santa is a big time for locals to take holidays (mostly on the coast or "balnearios") but it won't be Costa Rica at all. If you don’t mind patchy tourist infrastructure then you will be rewarded with visits to untouched areas of outstanding natural beauty and a welcome found in few places in the world. The scenery is a combination of volcanoes, lakes, cloud and rain forests, colonial cities and long stretches of tropical coastline. The rich bio-diversity of Nicaragua is protected, making it the largest expanse of uncut rainforest north of the Amazon.
Any questions, please ask!