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Central America's smallest country (tinier than the US state of West Virginia and just a bit bigger than Wales) gets a bad, exagerrated rap because of gang violence...
07/01/2020
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Central America
Surfers on Santa Teresa Beach
The last decade in particular has cemented the position of this remarkable little Central American country as one of the world's top ecotourism powerhouses. But...
21/12/2019
Harry D.
You've of course heard of Tikal, Antigua, and Guatemala City. But 2,330 metres (7,644 feet) up in the western highlands just two or so hours from the capital,...
11/12/2018
Matthias Ripp
Yoga lovers and scientists alike know that this ancient discipline - originated in India hundreds, maybe even thousands of years before our Common Era - is fantastic...
06/11/2018
Hugh Lansdown
The sun had set and the stars above seemed brighter than I've ever seen them before. Floating in the warm waters of the Golfo Dulce, in Costa Rica's...
03/05/2018
David Escribano
Guatemala's northernmost department (like a state or province), Petén, is also not only its largest, but home to most of its ancient Mayan archaeological sites. Tikal is by...
19/04/2018
all photos: Elen Turner
San José, the capital of the perennially pretty Costa Rica, doesn’t have the greatest reputation among travellers. My own first impression was that it was overwhelmingly...
07/12/2017
photo | Renee Vititoe
Right astride the Caribbean's largest barrier reef – also the world’s second largest after Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – this small island (just 83 square kilometres/32 sq....
01/09/2016
I confess, I do especially love Guatemala. In many ways, it’s the country of Central America which more than any other truly “has it all”. That includes breathtaking Mayan...
03/11/2015
Last year I surf-waxed poetic about the glorious beaches of Costa Rica’s Pacific Ocean coast, one of its top tourism draws. A bit less well known and fewer in...
29/10/2015
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