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Literacy is valued and the church bell summons students to class every weekday at 8:00 am.

Children must wear the appropriate uniform to attend school. Virtually all of them are immaculately clean, even though the walk to school will usually be through at least some length of muddy road.

Literacy is valued and schools, painted in the national colors of blue and white, are a common sight throughout the countryside, along with schoolchildren in crisp, clean, blue and white uniforms.

Two-wheeled and four-legged forms of transportation are still more common than cars on the streets of San Juan del Sur.

A local bakery receives its regular delivery of cooking wood by ox cart, a form of transportation that shares even the Pan-American highway with motorized vehicles.

A lone sailboat moored in the bahia (bay) at Playa Marsella is one more than can be found in most bahias.

A river flowing out of the jungle, this one at Playa Marsella, is a typical feature of most bahias (bays).

Local children can be friendly and playful. Here, running over to laugh and pose in front of the river leading into the jungle from Playa Marsella.

General Augusto César Sandino, who fought against the US Marines in the 1920s, and for whom the Sandinistas took their name and heritage in the 1970’s, is still a presence in murals and statues.

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