Colonial home in Granada -  Restored and modernized.

Ometepe Island, Volcan Concepcíon in background, scene of firefight between Contras and Sandinistas.

Looking north, view of Granada on the left, Lake Nicaragua, and across the lake barely seen are the mountains of Boaco Department, the location of Camalapa village and the El Quizaltepe Mountain cave.  Chontales Department is to the south of Boaco.  Just to the south of Granada, on the western shore, are the 350 Granada Isletas.

Granada Cathedral, located off the main square in Granada, Nicaragua.

Current day Granada, but not so different.  Carriages in the main square waiting to transport passengers.

Palacio Episcopal: Archbishop's offices and quarters (red building) on the Central Park, Granada.

One of the 350 Granada Isletas.  In recent years, a number of homes have been built on the isletas.

Former home of the Granada Writers Group.

Laguna La Calera is the hooked peninsula at the bottom.  Punta Isabel to the north.  Puerto Asese will enter the story later.

Point West, long abandoned secret Contra airstrip that is now a national park in Costa Rica.

Contra Soldiers - Taking a smoke break in the jungle.

C-123 similar to Oct 86 crash SE Nicaragua

Matagalpa town in the highlands, with coffee fields above..

C47 plane used to drop supplies by parachute.

Contra soldiers were both men and women.

Maule M-7, the type of plane flown from Point West in The Comandante's Gift.

Finca Esperanza Verde Coffee farm, Matagalpa Department.

MI-25 over mountains similar to northern Nicaragua.