Our final country was Guatemala, the San Cristobal bus from San Salvador efficiently took us across the El Salvador, Guatemala border and into Zone 10 in Guatemala City. From there, while there a frequent buses …
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El Salvador
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We were last in El Salvador back in 2007 and its fair to say the country has been transformed since then. Our entry at the land border with Honduras was very efficient and the immigration …
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From San Jose an early morning Tica Bus to Granada, Nicaragua. The bus journey was quite long and border crossings in Central America seem to take much longer than those in South America. Leaving Costa …
Continue readingCosta Rica
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From Panama, we crossed the land border into Costa Rica and made our way to the capital San Jose, arriving just after 10 in the evening. Despite looking relatively small on the map, distances can …
Continue readingColombia 2022 – Zona Cafetera
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Our first destination in the Zona Cafetera was the university town of Manizales. The town, unusually for Latin America, sits right on top of a mountain, with the principal city centre street being the highest …
Continue readingColombia 2022 – Antioquia
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From Cartagena we took the small flight to Medellín. Medellin after it’s traumatic history back in the 1980/90s is a definite highlight on any trip to Colombia, seeing how the city has recovered from its …
Continue readingColombia 2022 – Caribbean Coast
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From Bucaramanga we took the bus North to Mompos. The journey took most of the day, though once we were out of the mountain valley, the road improved immeasurably. Mompos is situated on the Magdalena …
Continue readingColombia 2022 – Boyacá & Santander
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Travelling North from Bogotá the temperatures climb as you move to lower altitudes into the fertile and economically productive provinces of Boyacá and Santander. Once you have escaped the notorious Bogotá traffic, the route North …
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After the hiatus of the pandemic, the world is beginning to open up and we decided to gently return to international travel by returning to Colombia, a country we last visited in 2018. We made …
Continue readingCartagena de Indias – Getting Ready for Christmas
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Cartagena in the run up to Christmas
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