There's very little to detain the traveller in ALTAGRACIA , a sleepy town set slightly inland from the lake on Ometepe's northeastern side. Its Parque Central is nicely ringed by several pre-Columbian statues found on the island...
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After Lorne, wooded hills fall away steeply into the ocean. The road follows the coastline in twisted serpentines, becoming very narrow in places where it was literally gouged out of the rockface, occasionally descending to small bays at the mouths of the...
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Founded by Dutch fur trappers in the early seventeenth century, ALBANY made its money by controlling trade along the Erie Canal, and its reputation by being capital of the state. It's not an unpleasant town, just rather boring, with its...
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