Granada Travel Guide

With it's colourful, colonial houses, squares and churches it truly seems like you're "back in time". Granada is absolutely stunning! Take a walk, slowly, around the city and check it out. Take a boat tour along the Granada islets. Want nightlife? During weekends you won't get bored as there are enough bars to head to and also two clubs where many locals go to. Want to interact with locals? It's easy to do so around the square, the Calzada street or with the staff of your hotel or hostel. People are very friendly...obviously it's easier to interact with them if you speak Spanish! Just three days I think would be enough in this city, but it's charm might keep you  there for longer!

Las Isletas is an archipelago of 365 little volcanic islands (one for each day of the year) situated inside Cocibolca Lake, 3 Km. far from Granada city. All these islands are luxuriant, rich in fauna and flora, especially in water birds. You can visit islands by little ship's boats leaving from Acese port or Cabaña Amarilla port both situated in the South end of Malecón of Granada. By these boats you can run through narrow canals that divide islands and admire a fortification of XIX century, which is on San Pablo Island, and a monkey-colony living on a little isle: when the boat comes near the shore, monkeys arrive all excited! You can spend the night on one of the islands. 

Hostal Oasis is one of the nicest hostels you will ever stay in and has a great vibe.  It's nice too because it's not on the main touristy strip.  Granada is amazing and the street food is phenomenal.  If you can get a drink called chia, it will change your life. The best fruit juice ever.  Granada's charms are everywhere and don't really lie in one sight or another.  It's a place meant to be simply, enjoyed. One sight about half an hour outside the city is Laguna de Apoyo.  This place is heaven on earth and embraces la dolce far niente to the max!