Send Flowers to Masaya, Nicaragua

Nicaraguans know Masaya as the City of Flowers and as the cradle of the country's folklore. A short drive from Managua, it sits beside a crater lagoon with the smoking Masaya volcano on the horizon, and its old market, a fortress-like stone building, is the best-known place in Nicaragua to buy hammocks, leatherwork, pottery and embroidered cotton.

The indigenous neighbourhood of Monimbó is the home of many of those craftspeople and of the marimba music and dances that appear at every celebration. Masaya's patron saint festival for San Jerónimo begins at the end of September and runs for weeks, with processions in which the saint's image is carried on a platform covered in flowers. Family ties are close here, and relatives in the United States, Costa Rica and Spain regularly send flowers to Masaya for mothers on 30 May, for birthdays and quinceañeras, and when someone has died.

Local florists deliver by hand to houses in the centre, to Monimbó and to the neighbourhoods along the roads to Managua and Granada. Order before 11:00 am Nicaraguan time for same-day delivery from Monday to Saturday; orders after that hour go out the next day, and Sundays are not delivery days. Addresses are given by reference points, so describe the location as locals do and include a phone number.

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