San Carlos Guide

Transport in San Carlos

Getting there

By boat

• You can cross into Nicaragua from Costa Rica getting a boat in Los Chiles. (Leaves at 1 pm in Los Chiles and costs 5000 Colones / 180 Cordobas or US$9.) You will arrive in San Carlos at around 3 pm (not so many options left to leave San Carlos on the very same day.)

• You can get into by boat from Isla Ometepe or from Granada. The Ferry leaves Granada at 2 pm on Monday and Thursday. It stops by in Altagracia at the Isla Ometepe where it leaves at around 6 pm.

• There are boats coming in from El Castillo and San Juan Del Norte.

• There are boat connections to Solentiname Islands and to the towns on the southern shore of the Lake of Nicaragua.

By bus

• There are buses to and from Managua. The trip takes 7 hours due to the road conditions (occasionally you have to get out of the bus so that it makes it up the hill).

By plane

There are daily flights from Managua (~US$120 round trip)

Getting around

It's a small city - everything is in walking distance.