Each time the plane dips below the clouds and the first curve of your volcanoes rises through the haze, my heart does the same thing it did the first time I saw you — it stops, and then it soars. I’ve been coming to you for years now, and still, every arrival feels like a homecoming.

Each time the plane dips below the clouds and the first curve of your volcanoes rises through the haze, my heart does the same thing it did the first time I saw you — it stops, and then it soars. I’ve been coming to you for years now, and still, every arrival feels like a homecoming.

Each time the plane dips below the clouds and the first curve of your volcanoes rises through the haze, my heart does the same thing it did the first time I saw you — it stops, and then it soars. I’ve been coming to you for years now, and still, every arrival feels like a homecoming.

When Belgian marine biologist Dr. Joëlle De Weerdt follows "her" humpback whales from Nicaragua's warm breeding waters to California's feeding grounds, magic happens. We assembled our crew from LA and San Francisco to join her on an unforgettable research expedition off Monterey Bay.

Surfers in Nicaragua have a way of talking—as if the place is home to some sort of ground zero for perfect waves. If you’ve watched the endless reel of glassy barrels breaking along its Pacific coast, you’ve probably wondered: What makes Nicaragua’s surf so consistently excellent? The answer goes beyond location or luck. It’s rooted in unique geography and meteorology. It’s a combination of the Pacific’s extraordinary “fetch” and the inland power of Lake Nicaragua.

Stretched along Central America’s “land of lakes and volcanoes,” Nicaragua offers a truly unique SCUBA diving experience—plunging beneath the surface of extinct volcanic craters. For divers willing to seek out the extraordinary, volcano diving in Nicaragua means exploring underwater landscapes shaped by millennia of geologic drama, far from crowded reefs or familiar ocean dives - or, for that matter, any other divers.