Tips On Nicaragua

• The local currency is called "Cordoba"...but of course you can always use US dollars
• You get aprx 15 to 16 Cordoba´s for the Canadian Dollar
• Lake Nicaragua, is the largest lake of Central America, in southwest Nicaragua. The freshwater lake contains fish, such as tuna and sharks, usually found only in salt water because it was part of the Caribbean Sea until land masses rose around it in prehistoric times.
• Population: 5.5 Million people
• Capital is Managua

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua

I don´t know anyone that has "vacationed" in Nicaragua.