Ometepe Island, Nicaragua — Gaze eastward from the shores of huge Lake Nicaragua, and they seem almost like a mirage: Twin volcanoes thrusting out of the water, one of them a towering cone of ...

In Lake Nicaragua, Central America's largest, the island of Ometepe lives in the perpetual shadow of two twin volcanoes. As an idyllic strip of life in dramatic surroundings, the small isle is a ...

Twenty-four hours earlier, I had been climbing one of those Ometepe volcanoes: Volcan Maderas, which traces a winding path through the wet Nicaraguan jungle to a misty cloud forest and then to a ...

Ometepe, Nicaragua — Any local guide will tell you, a climber should not attempt an ascent of Nicaragua’s Concepcion volcano by its southern flank. It’s too fragile, and volcanologists fear ...

Nicaragua's smoking summit is accessed from the popular island of Ometepe, an 'oasis of peace' island with beaches, ...

Ometepe isn’t big — just four times the size of Bainbridge — but it’s big vertically. Concepción volcano surges to 5,315 feet, occasionally belching ash and steam. Its smaller sister ...

Accessible from the mainland by ferry, Ometepe houses two volcanoes and climbing these isn't for the faint of heart. The largest, Volcano Concepción, will take up to 11 hours round trip ...

The controversial Nicaragua canal, dubbed the largest engineering project in history, is forcing a small, sleepy community into the spotlight. A sleepy, isolated island community in Nicaragua ...

Together, the two volcanoes form Ometepe, the largest island in Lake Nicaragua, Central America’s largest lake. While Maderas is dormant, Concepción is still known to unleash “ashy belches ...

OMETEPE, Nicaragua Picking out the visitors who have laboured their way to the top of one of the two volcanoes on this tiny island in Lake Nicaragua is not difficult. Just look for the people ...