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  Political mural riddled with bullet holes, downtown Managua

  © Charlotte Hindle

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  I'll fight you for it: little Léon boys arm-wrestling

  © Eric Wheater

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  Praying for a ticket to heaven: headstones at Granada Cemetery

  © Margie Politzer

Nicaragua: Overview

To the new generation of travelers, Nicaragua represents booming beach breaks, volcano hiking, island paradises and laid-back colonial towns. It seems that the message - 'the civil war finished decades ago people!' - has finally gotten across to a world who had the country pegged as a troublespot.