Background

Waslala is a Nicaraguan municipality of approximately 40,000 people. The central town is home to about 10,000 people and 30,000 inhabitants live in the 95 mountainous rural communities surrounding the town. Waslala and the surrounding areas are lush with vegetation, have beautiful rivers and streams and offer breathtaking views of the tropical forests and countryside.

Getting to Waslala

It takes approximately 7 hours to reach Waslala by bus or truck. The road to Nicaragua is not maintained and is not always paved. It takes 4 hours to reach Matagalpa – a large mountainous community; it takes another 5 hours to reach the main village of Waslala. This trip would take approximately 2 hours if the roads were paved and maintained. Once in Waslala, the main forms of transportation are on foot or by horse. The outlying communities in Waslala are as close as one hour by foot to as far as 10 hours by foot.