Central America’s largest country is a land of unparalleled untouched natural beauty, strong natural contrasts and magical legends. Nicaragua features coffee plantations, exotic tropical flowers, cloud forests, marvelous Spanish colonial cities, lakes, volcanoes and an idyllic Caribbean paradise. Nicaragua is often described as the “land of Lakes and Volcanoes”. More than one third of the country’s territory is occupied by lake-basins. Lake Nicaragua is one of the largest lakes in the American continent and San Juan River is historically known as the “Transit Route” for Mark Twain and other Pioneers on the way to the Western United States.