Nicaragua has a unique and original space in colonial Granada. From the La Merced church, half a block from the lake, there is a café, a restaurant and a hammock factory, all in one place.
Café de las Sonrisas (Uncle Antonio's) is a magical place, in every corner there is a story written on the wall and its service is excellent; the peculiarity of this business is that its workers are deaf.
You might wonder how such a place can work… for more than five years, alternative forms of communication have been devised and none of the more than 15,000 tourists who visit it every year have had any problems interacting.
The cafe works in a very funny way, how do you tell a deaf person what you want and what you don't? A menu was devised with symbols that allow you to identify them with an X (X) what you do not want to add and with a check (✓) what yes.
There are also signs on the tables, just like on the walls, so your tastes can be indicated in an easy and entertaining way.
They have a bicycle that makes juices, the only one in our country where visitors can choose what to combine the fruits with and then taste them.
In addition, there are two very interesting hammocks out there, one is giant and can hold more than 100 people, and the other is endless. Each tourist who arrives is threading the hammock with their hands, which surrounds almost the entire house and which still has no end in sight.
Nearly 76 nationalities have visited this site, a comprehensive project that tries to do different things where each worker has a smile that no one can take away from them and that identifies them as part of what is experienced there.
Nicaragua allows you to do different things and tourism reinvents itself every day in unique and original ways.
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