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Leisure travelers will find more local flavor on the island's south shore, where rooms range from $150 to $370 a night. The 16-unit Hacienda Tamarindo (787-741-8525) offers an elevated view of the ocean and homey rooms decorated with old circus posters and other curiosities. Its next-door neighbor, the Inn on the Blue Horizon (787-741-3318), has one-room cottages with country-style wooden furniture, just steps from the sea. And the celebrated, open-air architecture of the Hix Island House hixislandhouse.com) farther inland, lets you feel as if you're camping but with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Caribbean's Last Secret | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...drinks range from exotic but simple syrup and soda combinations, like grenadine and tamarindo, to elaborate specialties dripping with whipped cream. Hot drinks include mint chocolate (also served cold) and Russky chai with strawberry jelly as a sweetner. And for those with simpler tastes a large glass of "George's water" is offered free of charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bars And the Like | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...Devil. The white paper then spun out the details of a so-called "Operation El Diablo." Rebel and mercenary "saboteurs, assassins and criminals," it said, were being drilled on Momotom-bito, a tiny island in Nicaragua's Lake Managua; radio technicians were being trained on Somoza's Tamarindo estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Plot Within a Plot | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...rest of the white paper seemed completely fanciful. TIME Correspondent Harvey Rosenhouse, who by chance had visited Tacho Somoza's Tamarindo estate a fortnight ago, toured the whole area and was able to vouch for the fact that there was nothing like a training camp there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Plot Within a Plot | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...Tacho owns almost 10% of his country's arable land. Because his holdings are widely scattered, Nicaragua now has more than 600 miles of all-weather public roads, compared with twelve miles in the '30s. Along a 40-mile stretch of the new road from Managua to Tamarindo, there is not a single town, village or house-but the road ends at a valuable salt flat where Tacho plans to process enough salt for the whole country. His diversified interests have helped transform Nicaragua from a one-crop (coffee) country into an exporter of rice, sesame, cotton, sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Mellow Mood | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

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