Travelling the Roads of Nicaragua
Driving in Nicaragua is an exceedingly dissimilar experience than traveling in the US, and travelers and tourists must realize that previous to hitting the Nicaraguan roads. As a general rule, there are merely a couple of paved roads, mostly major highways, and even those are not in good condition. Secondary roads, if you can even consider them as that, are unpaved and rutted, full of potholes and obstacles, not lighted, and have no shoulder.
Driving across the country is done on the right-hand side, just as it is in the U.S. Visitors are warned that when traveling to Costa Rica or the Honduras during their visit to Nicaragua, they are to go across the borders at the main border-crossing sites, Las Manos and Penas Blancas. Traffic laws are very diverse in the country as well. Motorists involved in an accident in which a person is killed is instantly detained till the source of the fender bender can be determined. You should never move a car involved in the car crash till the police arrive or the accountability automatically lands on the individual who changed the position of the car.
As the government is financing funds for infrastructure, consisting of bettering roads and bridges, the rainy season continues to take its toll on the highways. Still the best roads in the country include threats that can lead to a wreck. Tourist to the country are intensely advised to have insurance, make sure their car is in total accordance with Nicaraguan transit law and to always carry a cell phone should your car gets trapped has engine trouble in the countryside. Even better, tourists are instructed to take on a professional driver acquainted with the roads in the country and let him drive you everywhere. On no occasion take a public transit bus, as they are in poor shape and rife with crooks.
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