Boquete: a breath of fresh air in the Panama mountains
Chugging along on a chicken bus to Boquete, being squeezed from all sides, is a Central American experience not to[…]
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Category: Americas
A twitcher for a day in Costa Rica
I’m definitely not a twitcher. Bird watching has never even been on my maybe list. But it’s impossible not to[…]
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New York for starters
There’s a lot to love about New York. Every time I’ve been I found something else that I didn’t discover[…]
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Highlights of Central America
If I had a tenner for every time someone asked me about my holiday to South America when I was[…]
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Tikal: towering temples in the Guatemala rainforest
Having visited quite a few wonderful Mayan sites in the Yucatan region of Mexico and, most recently, Copan in Honduras,[…]
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San Pedro: beachside relation in beautiful Belize
When I read the reviews of my hotel in San Pedro, Belize, I was dubious about reports that you couldn’t[…]
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Fireworks, flowers and tortillas
The jail in San Juan Chamula is very small, but then no one spends more than three days there. The[…]
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Lake Atitlán: for a room with a fabulous view
Aldous Huxley said it was as beautiful as Lake Como but with the added bonus of being surrounded by immense[…]
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