Casco Viejo, Panama City, Panama
Tonight is night four of four in the Central American country of Panama, night 53 of 53 in Central America (yes, I’ve just worked that out). I’m just back from taking a few pictures in the Casco Viejo district of Panama City, my very last stop in the...
Panama Canal, Panama, Central America
The French couldn’t built it so the Americans did instead. A pictorial look at the world’s most efficient shortcut, the Panama Canal in Central America.
Boquete, Panama, Central America
With time of the essence I was looking for somewhere that didn’t require me to deviate too far from the Pan-American Highway, the main artery through Panama, Central America, my seventh & final country on my north-to-south visit through the region. Boquete...
Costa Rica – Panama Border Crossing, Central America
I should have known better but once again I underestimated the slowness of Central American bus travel. After a whole day of travel yesterday to go a relatively small distance (the 200+ kilometres from Manuel Antonio to the Costa Rica / Panama border) I made it only...
Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
When I think Costa Rica I think flora, fauna, forest, rain forest – general ecology & bionomics. Therefore, even with the limited time I had at my disposal in the country I knew I couldn’t leave Costa Rica without spending some time traipsing around...
Jaco, Costa Rica, Central America
I love maps. Always have. I guess those of my ilk do. By glancing at a map of the world I’m invariably reminded of some fond travel memory, until such time as that same map reminds me of my travel shortcomings by highlighting a region of the world that...
Costa Rica || First Impressions
Columbus, on his 4th voyage to the New World in 1502, named the stretch of coastline north of Panama & south of Nicaragua la costa rica (the rich coast). Nobody has come up with anything better since so the name has stuck. Famous for rain forests (& the...
San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, Central America
Colonial towns. Lakes. Volcanoes. Photogenic colonial towns, lakes & volcanoes even. So far I’ve had them all in Nicaragua. All that was missing was a beach and for a country with both Caribbean & Pacific coasts that’s a pretty big omission. So, I...