Posts/Entries

All posts/entries, for now, from over two decades of global travel. And a few colourful tags, too.

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...

Nikko Hispaniola Cornelia unawatuna casablanca Toronto South Dakota Sunauli Osh Stepantsminda Haiti Oman Gettysburg Gyantse Ocean City Santorini El Alamein Kathmandu Helen Santo Domingo Argentina Finland British Columbia Kill Devil Hills Porto Montenegro Mtskheta Morocco Angkor Samarkand Mystras Asuncion Friendship Highway Fajardo Luxor Chile East Asia China & Tibet Cape Cod Turkey Tennessee Copan Ruinas Cape Reinga Cologne New Orleans Jacksonville oahu Tivat Port of Spain St. Lucia Virginia Northern Ireland Colonial Williamsburg agra Whangarei Nizhny Novgorod Dunedin Jebel Toubkal Delmarva Durres Roanoke Island Tierra del Fuego Tena Lori brisbane Moulay Idriss Washington Torres Del Paine New Brunswick Rio de Janeiro managua Himeji Jeju Muriwai Beach Reykjavik France Kerry Bulgaria flores Mesoamerica Quito Rockfish Gap Puerto Natales Philadelphia San Jose Easter Island Alaska USA coba Oregon Montville Arkansas Prishina Dijon amritsar Iowa The Catlins Chongqing Leigh Lombardy Como Bluffs Alaverdi Datong beijing North Korea England Uzbekistan Laramie Paju Damascus Chiloe tomsk Bloubergstrand Machu Picchu Georgia Kotor Lake George Tinos seward Yazoo City Lexington melbourne Transylvania Jefferson Bar Harbor Sinai South Ossetia Intercourse Nepal French Antilles shanghai Montenegro Singapore Switzerland Montego Bay Louisiana san francisco byron bay Santa Roas de Copan Costa del Sol Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Pristina Te Anu St Cloud Northland chiang mai Clarksdale Curacao Port-au-Prince Alpine Ciudad del Este Trujillo Wyoming Mostar Pensacola Lago De Yojoa Teotihuacan New York City Spain goa Marrakesh Sligo stockholm Peru Netherlands oslo Matauri Bay north car Aspen Mayo Burdine Ingapirca Malaysia Milford Sound Cuba Zante Alliance Flanders Essex Santa Clara Tobolsk Pompeii Ait Benhaddou Sneedville Fox Glacier Galway La Paz India The Caribbean / West Indies galle Loja Prattville Indiana Puno Nacoochee Village Cordell Cuenca Polynesia Zugdidi Kyrgyzstan Mestia borneo punjab West Virginia Palolem Foz do Iguacu Myrtle Beach Hospet Egypt Slovenia Highland Veneto New England Yongin Savannah Chicago Burlington tijuana dubai Mount Cook Bismarck Cote d'Azur / French Riviera Antarctica Fort Payne orange walk Cape May lamanai Cienfuegos Tyumen Saint Stephen bay islands Maine Chandigarh yangshou Madison Cheyenne Belize City Treasure Beach Lewes Ica Monaco Cannes Tallinn key west Belgrade Erg Chebbi Peloponnese Jackson Mount Sinai Grand Forks Dahab Trinidad Cleveland tulum Piura Monte Carlo vancouver Tetouan Franconia Navajo Nation Manuel Antonio Panajachel Torrington Latvia Michigan Nebraska Southeast Asia Skopje Salina South Shetland Islands Patagonia Delft Tbilisi Delaware Guiyang Panmunjom Antarctic Peninsula Florianopolis Svalbard Gracanica tibet Puerto Lopez Montana Denmark Tirana Hatteras Island Danang Imlil Boracay Paris London Marigot Shigatse Aqaba Panguitch Grand Lake Saint Lucia Guangzhou Suez Teec Nos Pos Galapagos Islands Algeciras Bogota Milan Skye Maracaibo chetumal West Yellowstone Marbella Saint Petersburg Andijon Medellin copan Montanita Cortez Cambodia tikal Croatia Fort Yates Pennsylvania Westport Knoxville Bolivia Antwerp Montgomery kosovo jodhpur Llandudno Iguazu Falls Petra Netherlands Antilles Gradil Santa Rosa de Copan Ashland Taupo Charleston Medicine Bow Gansbaai George Town Honolulu Bentonia Arizona Naushki Bethlehem Florida Santiago Minneapolis Kuwait Rincon Kentucky Washington D.C. San Martin de los Andes Kansas City Santa Marta chengdu North Macedonia Queenstown Lesser Antilles Yerevan Sofia Paraguay Cape Town Hiroshima Nasca Palestine South America san salvador North Dakota Massachusetts St. Louis Prescott Listvyanka Hue New Mexico Portugal Vancouver Island Kingston Roseau Margate Puerto Varas Ipiales Cordoba Brazil Hatch Honduras irkutsk Trinidad and Tobago Hanoi Wellington Vilnius bundi Brainerd Ionian Islands Rotorua Syria Zagreb Uruguay Granby Scottsbluff Crown Point Nags Head Stirling Cusco Cooperstown Minnesota Lewisburg Puerto Ayora ataco Deception Island copenhagen Costa Rica Giza Lauterbrunnen Muscat Warwick Dayton Atlanta Rosine Luquillo Russia Atlantic City Colleville Sur Mer Quebec City Zhangmu Ireland Trieste Volubilis The Arctic Heartland Leadville sunshine coast Illinois Varadero Aleppo Abkhazia Hungary Edinburgh Gibraltar New Zealand - South Island waikiki Crow Agency Ocho Rios San Juan Budva Front Royal Iceland Billings Willemstad Thailand Italy Shelly Beach Sandy Hook Canyon Village Lakota Adirondacks Owensboro Valparaiso Bran Portland seattle Huaraz Hoi An Prague Rome Cannon Ball Meridian Stellenbosch Ohio porto North America Caucasus Sarajevo West Indies Mandeville Invercargill Pyongyang Castries New Church New Zealand - North Island Ontario Isla de la Ometepe Ouarzazate Elim Berlin Caleta Tortel Nuwera Eliya Western Cape Monticello Vermont Ghorepani Sucre Sint Maarten hilo Bukhara sydney Hora Alexandria Chesapeake miami Fenwick Island Hyannis granada Tekapo Belize Wanaka Manteo Antrim moscow Salt Lake City Muine Maharashtra Deadwood krabi Madrid Appalachia las vegas Dead Sea Simon's Town Ullapool Bosnia and Herzegovina Buford ABC Islands Lubec pushkar Vicksburg Hermanus kenai peninsula Juayua Chiclayo Nara utila Greenfield helsinki Kobe Twin Lakes Mexico Yichang Perast Mississippi Delta Puerto Rico Caen varanasi Toledo Puerto Villamil Spitsbergen Ecuador Garden City El Chalten Eastport Concepción de Ataco Lake Ohrid Rhode Island Idaho Madaba Bluegrass kerala Nicaragua Alabama Central America Mykonos Scotland Ilha de Santa Catarina Provincetown Donegal ericeira antigua Montpelier Jersey Shore California Sepilok Jungfrau Campobello Island Greater Antilles busan Connecticut Tongariro Chefchaouen Macau Nashville the big island Shenandoah Coyhaique yucatan Budapest Dominica Ghent Wadi Musa Fengdu Puerto Rio Tranquilo Guatemala Tuymen Wilmington Kayenta Omaha Istanbul South Carolina Cap-Haitien Bratislava Stepantsminda/Kazbegi Sinuiju Krasnoyarsk Ticonderoga Kolkata / Calcutta Lima Barcelona Negril Kleinbaai Zakynthos boston Xian Buenos Aires Maynardville Novosibirisk Copacabana Lithuania South Korea Middle East Emei Shan Sao Paulo Dominican Republic west bengal alleppey siberia Montevideo Selma Baltic States caye caulker merida Tuscany Pyramiden New York Christchurch Amsterdam guadalajara Uyuni Malaga Mongolia Providence Khiva Cartagena Beulah Popayan Greece Galapagos Franschhoek Punta Arenas Maryland Naples Outer Banks Kyllini solola Littleton leshan Todra Gorge Hyden Philippines Saint Martin El Jadida homer Nuweiba penang Guayaquil Macclenny Paros Oia Rugby Tegucigalpa Arabia Quebec Cairo Burgundy bali Slovakia langkawi Jackson Hole Cork Warsaw Havana Perito Moreno Jordan Cholpon-Ata Los Angeles Greymouth Soufriere China Indianapolis Golmud El Calafate anjuna ella Kota Kinabalu Syracuse Central Asia Brussels Aviemore Wisconsin vladimir ulan bator Israel Harbin Mexico City Santiago Atitlan Ushuaia Bern L'Agulhas Fes Hawaii mysore Plovdiv Andalusia North Carolina Dandong UAE san diego Trakai Normandy Barentsburg Virpazar Hout Bay Alausi kollam Guanajuato Chichicastenango Indian Subcontinent Arlington Trinidad & Tobago Norway Erie Gori Sparta hampi Pula Grand Cayman Mississippi Rissani suchitoto Brian Head Mendoza Pokhara Urumqi Clare Fort William Banos Philipsburg Lincoln Hama Bangkok South Africa Burwell colombo Estes Park Delos Charlottesville Tipperary chiang rai anchorage Nevada The Cyclades Bird in Hand Guilin Florence utah seoul santa ana Barre Tashkent Birmingham Dyess Jamaica Dubrovnik Cooke City new south wales Ljubljana baltimore Cape of Good Hope cancun Bucharest Krakow Kodari Er Rachidia Australia New Jersey Ohrid Uttar Pradesh Richmond Glasgow Bishkek Lake Titicaca Custer Salta Blugaria wicklow Memphis Germany Abu Dhabi Tallahassee Panama City Serbia Stanstead Niagara Page Rosario Wadi Rum Canada Jerusalem Longyearbyen Hong Kong Parikia Potosi Armenia Campania Macedonia North Africa Catalonia kovalam Ghandruk Riga Imjingak Camaguey Sint Maarten / Saint Martin Bariloche Andros Sri Lanka Czech Republic ubud Woodstock Poland Upstate New York Aysen New Hampshire Lancaster Gangnam leon Kyoto fort cochin kuta Panjim Bemidji Nice Tangier Colombia Dorasan Sabah Noosa hohhot Annapolis Shakhunya Nanning Ping An uxmal Vatican City Vík í Mýrdal vizhinjam Isla Isabela Suwon Midelt Australasia Albania Falmouth Lhasa Appalachians Bruges Kuala Lumpur Olympia Logan victoria Venezuela Cetinje hana cameron highlands Olive Hill Essaouira jaco El Chaupi boquete Pisa New Haven Tokyo Merzouga Asheville Durango Porto Alegre Punta Cana Kazakhstan Coeburn Walker lisbon Castro Austria Tingri mafra New Zealand Podgorica Perm John O'Groats Drake Passage Cochrane Cherbourg Veliko Tarnovo Jamestown Spalding Panama Bloomington Japan Lockerbie Siem Reap karnataka Iberia Verona Estonia Astana Srebrenica Mobile Brasov Kona ipoh Gyeongju Vietnam Meknes kandy Rapa Nui Jacmel Auschwitz/Birkenau Mumbai/Bombay maui Ancud Amman Vienna dublin Indonesia Port Waikato Sweden Montreal Beaver Dam Colonia del Sacramento Dades Gorge St Paul queensland Cayman Islands Almaty Annapurna Chelsea Kijong-dong / Propaganda Village Galax Belgium Bremen Bodie Island Rhineland Tupelo Erlian Lahaina Williamsburg rajasthan El Salvador Romania Overberg Colorado delhi Scandinavia Venice United Kingdom Missouri Rio Gallegos Hartland Kilkenny Slyudyanka Yekaterinburg Jenkins The Balkans Pucon Laganas Istria Peninsula San Juan Del Sur

Pin It on Pinterest