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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
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
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
Especially for such a tiny country, Panama has quite a bit to offer even beyond the canal and the historic and and also excitingly modern capital Panama City. One particularly cool...
08/09/2015
The small Central American country of Costa Rica is of course internationally famous as a beaches, adventure travel, and ecotourism powerhouse, drawing millions of visitors per year to its...
24/07/2014
Stashed away in the steamy jungles of Petén, in Guatemala's northeast, Tikal, which means "place of the voices," is the greatest of the ancient Mayan cities, and one of...
15/05/2014
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