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 …
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We arrived in Panama City via a flight that transited through an extremely cold Atlanta. The first few months of the year are some of the best to visit Central America, in that it is …
Continue readingMexico – The Yucatan
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The final leg of our Mexican tour was the Yucatan Peninsular. From Palenque we took the bus to the old colonial port of Campeche. Because the Yucatan is very flat, mostly less than 50 metres …
Continue readingMexico City and the Centre of Mexico
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We arrived in Mexico City after a long flight on the 11th January 2023 and while the airport was fairly busy we were safely through it complete with bags and a simple immigration process and …
Continue readingColombia 2022 – The South
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Going South from the Zona Cafetera, the number of tourists is greatly reduced, especially as distances are greater from the major population centres of Bogotá and Medellín and international tourists stick to the arc between …
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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 …
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