Posts/Entries
All posts/entries, for now, from over two decades of global travel. And a few colourful tags, too.
Santa Ana, El Salvador, Central America
I haven’t yet ventured too far as yet in El Salvador and not venturing too far in Central America’s smallest but most densely populated country really isn't venturing too far at all. https://twitter.com/ByrneDavidM/status/339011514365259776 Santa Ana I'm in the...
Antigua, Guatemala
A pictorial look at a return to UNESCO-listed Antigua in Guatemala, one of Central America’s most historic & most photogenic Colonial towns.
Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala
The last of the central highland Mayan villages I visited during this trip to Guatemala was Santiago Atitlan, a 90-minute boat ride across Lake Atitlan, Central America's deepest lake, from my base in Pana. https://twitter.com/ByrneDavidM/status/337955225212162049...
Chichicastenango (Chichi), Guatemala
The most famous of the Guatemalan highland village markets, and probably the most famous market in Central America (& certainly the most photographed), is the one in Chichicastenango, or Chichi for short. On Thursday & Sunday, market days, the local indigenous...
Solola, Guatemala, Central America
Panajachel, a.k.a. Pana (thankfully Guatemalans like to shorten their town names), is going to be a nice base. Its location in the highlands of Guatemala & on the shores of Lago de Atitlán (Lake Atitlán) is stunning, surrounded as it is by many picturesque...
Riding The Chicken Bus in Central America || Busted
I love travelling when I'm travelling. So getting around Guatemala, and Central America in general, is going to be fun. It was today, a thwarted pickpocketing aside. And that’s thanks to the so-called chicken buses, the large, noisy, colourful, carbon...
Antigua, Guatemala || An Introduction
When travelling in the Central American country of Guatemala it’s hard to avoid Antigua (not that one should, of course). I didn't avoid it for long spending most of yesterday, my third day in the country, on buses getting here from Flores in the north....
Flores, Guatemala, Central America
Belize. Now there's a Central American aberration for sure. Guatemala is more like it - more Latin American. It's early days of course but so far, so good. I arrived in Flores in northern Guatemala a few days ago after a long cross-border bus ride from Belize City in...
Tikal, Guatemala, Central America
Tikal is Guatemala's blue-ribboned Mayan ruins, somewhere I've just returned from (I could have done without the stupid o'clock / 4 a.m. start this morning). This is the sixth set Mayan ruins I've visited in three different countries since visiting my first in Uxmal,...
Caye Caulker, Belize, Central America
My 3 days & 3 nights of doing nothing on Caye Caulker, a small, low-elevation, sandy island of the coast of Belize in Central America, have come to an end. All I really did here was take pictures & even they were pretty repetitive. There’s only so much a small...
Caye Caulker, Belize|| Just Off The Boat
I’ve just arrived in Caye Caulker, Belize. A caye, also spelled cay or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island formed on the surface of a coral reef. And that’s exactly what Caye Caulker is – a small sandy island in the Caribbean Sea off the Belizean mainland....
Belize City, Belize, Central America
I took a look around Belize City this afternoon, the biggest city in Belize but not the capital - that’s a place called Belmopan (reads like a dangerous chemical). Even though it's the biggest city Belize has to offer, & even meandering as slowly as I did, looking...
Lamanai, Belize, Central America
If you ever find yourself paying a visit to the Lamanai Mayan ruins in the Central American country of Belize, it's quite likely that the trip to and from the site, via speedboat on the country's New River, will end up being the highlight of the outing. It was for me....
Orange Walk, Belize
I had one of those travel moments today, a few minutes after stepping off the bus from Chetumal in Mexico & weighed down with my bags, when I found myself questioning what the hell I was doing here, here being a place called Orange Walk in northern Belize. Orange...