The Solentiname
Archipelago, dimly visible, from Costa Rica, through the haze of the
Pizote River Valley | 
Typical riverbank house on stilts... |
Woman washing clothes | 
Street celebration on Ometepe |
Islands are many... | 
Boys make faces for camera |
Pagan shaman figure
in Catholic churchyard | 
Baseball, the preferred sport. . . |
Pre-Columbian petroglyphs lie scattered on these sacred grounds | 
Communal kitchen on Mancarron. Many of the women on these islands are gifted painters and are called 'primitivists' in the developed world. Note the easel and work in progress behind the cook on the right. |
