Ruta del Tránsito
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Ruta de Tránsito is in Southern Nicaragua, traversing the country from coast to coast through the jungle along the San Juan river and past one of the largest lakes in Latin America — Lake Nicaragua. The route crosses the Rio San Juan Region as well as Southwestern Nicaragua.
UnderstandThis route was one of the primary modes of reaching the West Coast of the USA prior to the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, most importantly during the 1848/49 California gold rush.
PrepareFor the relatively straightforward visa-procedure for Nicaragua see here.
Get inFrom Managua you can take a domestic flight to San Juan Del Norte leaving twice a week. If you want to start from the west, there are several buses daily to Rivas and from there onwards to San Juan del Sur.
GoAs this route is now only traveled in its entirety for leisure and not to get from some point to another, slight variations from the original route have been made, to make it doable with publicly available scheduled…
Stay safeNicaragua is considerably safer in terms of criminal activity than its neighbors to the north and on about the same level of safety as Costa Rica.
Go nextWhile this is only the shortest part of the original East Coast USA to West Coast USA route, there is no scheduled service of any kind from either endpoint of the journey to North America proper.
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- Photo: Stoschmidt, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons