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Cockfighting, Nicaragua

Cockfighting, Nicaragua

The brutal blood sport of Gamecock fighting in Leon, Nicaragua. Dating back 6000 years, it’ s said to be the world’s oldest spectator sport.

Leon, Nicaragua, Central America

Leon, Nicaragua, Central America

It didn't take long to blow the Honduran dust off my camera. Leon, one of two legendary cultured Spanish colonial jewels in Nicaragua, is a pretty & vibrant city full of history & churches. After suffering through something of a photography lull for the last...

Lago De Yojoa & Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Lago De Yojoa & Tegucigalpa, Honduras

I came to Honduras hoping it to be different. It was different alright. Ten days I spent in the country, good for nine sleeps, probably more time than I should have afforded to Central American country number 4. Looking back I spent some or most of seven of the ten...

Útila, Bay Islands, Honduras, Central America

Útila, Bay Islands, Honduras, Central America

Even allowing for the slowness of bus travel in Honduras I thought leaving Copan Ruinas at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday last (today is Monday) that I’d make the 4:30 p.m. ferry that day from La Ceiba, 360 kilometres & 3 different buses away from Copan Ruinas - the ferry...

Copan Ruinas, Honduras, Central America

Copan Ruinas, Honduras, Central America

I, & as most travellers to the Copan Mayan site do, based myself for 2 nights in the charming, hilly, colonial village of Copan Ruinas, a short walk from the Copan Architectural Site. I didn't take many pictures (emm, none actually) of the town’s picturesque...

Copán, Honduras, Central America

Copán, Honduras, Central America

Honduras’ top destination and it’s only major Mayan site is the Copán Architectural Site. Deep in western Honduras & close to the Guatemalan border, I took the roundabout, out-of-the-way route to get here having come to Copan via El Salvador - seemingly it's...

Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras

Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras

I'm keen to get to my intended destination of Copan Ruinas but, & having overnighted last night, I found myself lingering over breakfast this morning in the nice open-air cafe in the centre of the beautiful and well-maintained central park here in Santa Rosa de...

El Salvador to Honduras, Central America || Busted

El Salvador to Honduras, Central America || Busted

I like travelling when I'm travelling but even so, today was a long, long day of Central American cross-border (chicken) bus travel. It's 11 p.m. on June 5, 2013, & I'm in a city called Santa Rosa de Copan, the largest city in western Honduras and my first stop in...

Suchitoto, El Salvador, Central America

Suchitoto, El Salvador, Central America

In the taxi this morning en route to the bus terminal in San Salvador, El Salvador's capital, I had a basic (& I mean basic) conversation with the jovial taxi driver. He garnered enough from me to know I was headed for Suchitoto, a small town about 50 kilometres...

San Salvador, El Salvador || People Watching

San Salvador, El Salvador || People Watching

Today I took another stroll around San Salvador, El Salvador's capital & Central America's second largest city. I got brave, or at least braver than I was yesterday - I did bring a (proper) camera with me. And with little in the way of monuments to admire in the...

San Salvador, El Salvador || An Introduction

San Salvador, El Salvador || An Introduction

I like cities. I always have. And having spent the last four nights soaking in the charming tranquillity of the mountain villages of Juayúa & Ataco in western El Salvador, I was looking forward to the obvious change of pace that a few nights in the El Salvadorian...

Concepción de Ataco, El Salvador, Central America

Concepción de Ataco, El Salvador, Central America

Concepción de Ataco is, after Juayúa, my second and last stop on the Ruta de Las Flores in western El Salvador. It's yet another picturesque El Salvadorian colonial town, one awash with brightly painted street walls to complement the requisite cobbled streets, shady...

Juayúa, El Salvador, Central America

Juayúa, El Salvador, Central America

I've no idea why but I've just spent 3 nights in a small village in western El Salvador called Juayúa (pronounced 'why-u-a'), one of many charming little country villages on the so-called Ruta de Las Flores (The Route of Flowers), a winding 36 kilometre mountain road...

Parque Nacional Los Volcanes, El Salvador

Parque Nacional Los Volcanes, El Salvador

Now this is more like it. Having hardly laid my eyes on any of Guatemala’s 30 volcanoes, let alone scaled one, I was determined to take a run at the first volcano I saw here in El Salvador. So I did just that. All it took was an hour-&-a-bit on a bus from Santa...

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