Popoyo Surf Camp - Press and Articles

By MARK SUNDEEN
Published in The New York Times
May 15, 2005

"Perhaps the most influential person in the development of Popoyo is J.J. Yemma, a 28-year-old entrepreneur from Florida with the copper-streaked hair and languid movements of a longtime surfer. J.J. arrived here in 1996 and operates Popoyo Surf Lodge, one of several all-inclusive surf camps that have sprung up in Nicaragua in recent years. Over the winter he added a couple of bungalows and a swimming pool to his compound, and dozens of irrigated saplings are taking root in the brown earth."