¡Viva León Jodido! Nightlife in León, Nicaragua: New York Times Sunday Travel Article and Photos BY JOSHUA BERMAN

Leon Nicaragua travel new york timesVisiting Nicaragua’s OTHER colonial jewel? (Granada gets all the hype, but León is a unique, wonderful Nicaragua town.) Save a night for bar-hopping in León. It’s on the city block that heads west from the southwest corner of the central plaza. Here’s my article on La Zona Rosa, as the Leoneses call their mini-fiesta zone:

“León’s Lively Party Zone”

The article is actually a slide show of photos I took with the help of my compañeros Rodney y Hector. I’m proud to say that even though the piece is only a few hundred words, I managed to make sure one of them was “tranquilo.”

Bárbaro, mentioned in the article, is one of my favorite new restaurants in Nicaragua — definitely a Top-Pick in our book Moon Nicaragua.

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