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Syria

Syria

Reviewing A Pre-War-Torn Syria Crac des Chevaliers, Syria. May 7, 2008 One of my fondest travel memories of the recent past was of the days, in May 2008, that I spent in the Middle Eastern country of Syria. Like a lot of people around the world, I've been following,...

Central America || Be Gone

Central America || Be Gone

It seems like someone wants me out of here as soon as possible. The taxi driver rarely went below 160 km/h when covering the 26 kilometres between the Casco Viejo district of Panama City & the city's Tocumen International Airport & with Sarah McLachlan's...

Casco Viejo, Panama City, Panama

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 region....

Panama Canal, Panama, Central America

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

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 seemed...

Costa Rica – Panama Border Crossing, Central America

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

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 one of its...

Jaco, Costa Rica, Central America

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 I've yet to...

Costa Rica || First Impressions

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

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 decided to...

Isla de la Ometepe, Nicaragua

Isla de la Ometepe, Nicaragua

I've just spent two nights in solitude on the slopes of a volcano on Ilsa de la Ometepe, Nicaragua's ecological jewel, a small hourglass-shaped island in Lago de Nicaragua (Lake Nicaragua), Central America's largest lake. You won't find any colonial buildings here....

Granada, Nicaragua, Central America

Granada, Nicaragua, Central America

The Photogenic Oldest Colonial City In Mainland America Cathedral de Granada. Granada, Nicaragua. June 18, 2013 Granada was founded in 1524 making it the oldest Colonial city in mainland America (it was founded 26 years after Santo Domingo in Dominican Republic, the...

Managua, Nicaragua, Central America

Managua, Nicaragua, Central America

I was initially only planning on passing through Managua, the Nicaraguan capital & Central America’s fourth largest city, en route elsewhere. It is located midway between Leon, from where I came, & Granada, from where I'm heading, having been founded in 1857...

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