Corinto

This tour start visiting one primary and secondary school in the city of Chinandega located just 18 kilometres from Port Corinto. This school offer technical training in carpentry, sewing, welding, etc. to poor children who have family problems. We will have the opportunity to talk to the students and learn about the education system in Nicaragua. Inside the school, there is a museum that features a permanent exhibition that pays tribute to the ancestral village of Nicaragua. This museum shows Pre-Columbian art expressed in ceramic, stone and gold.

After school, we visited the famous Basilica of El Viejo located in a small town near Chinandega. This is an old and very popular church with spectacular colonial architecture and unique inside decoration. Every year in December it is the attraction center for thousands of people who come to honor the Virgin Mary.

After this, we move on to the Rum Factory Flor de Caña, located in the city of Chichigalpa just 33 kilometres from Port Corinto. Here we will be able to experience and learn more in detail about the production, distillation, and ageing process of one of the most famous awarded rums in the world.

Inside the factory we will be transported through six different stations in which you can enjoy the history of the rum, the manufacture and why not enjoy a glass of centenary 18 years from the private reserve of the Pellas family who founded this factory.

Finally, you can visit the Flor de Caña Museum/Bar & Gift – Shop. All these are located inside the biggest rum barrel in the world.