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Volcanoes, beaches on two oceans, colonial cities and Maya ruins. Every guide we publish, newest first.
Santa Catalina and Coiba National Park: surf and diving on Panama’s Pacific
Santa Catalina is a fishing village on the Pacific coast of Veraguas, known for two things that don’t…
Masaya Volcano and the Pueblos Blancos: the best single day in Nicaragua
Between Managua and Granada lies a plateau of craft villages, volcanic lagoons and a crater you can drive…
Corn Islands: the Nicaraguan Caribbean almost nobody visits
The Corn Islands are two tiny islands in the Nicaraguan Caribbean, some 70 km offshore, where people speak…
Gracias and Celaque: colonial town, cloud forest and hot springs in Honduras
Gracias is one of the oldest towns in Central America and, for a few years in the sixteenth…
Lake Yojoa: birds, waterfalls and the stop almost nobody makes in Honduras
Lake Yojoa is the largest natural lake in Honduras and the stop almost everyone drives past, halfway between…
San Ignacio and Cayo: caves, ruins and rivers in inland Belize
San Ignacio is the unofficial capital of inland Belize and proof that the country is more than its…
Costa Rican food: gallo pinto, casado and 15 dishes to try
Costa Rican cooking is the most understated in Central America and the one that grows on you most.…
Placencia: the beach peninsula of southern Belize
Placencia is a sliver of sand some twenty-odd kilometres long in southern Belize, so narrow that in places…
Puerto Viejo and the southern Caribbean: the Costa Rica that doesn’t look like Costa Rica
Puerto Viejo de Talamanca doesn’t feel like the rest of Costa Rica. People speak Creole alongside Spanish, rice…
Tortuguero: canals, turtles and how to reach the village with no roads
Tortuguero is the most improbable destination in Costa Rica: a village with no roads, wedged between the Caribbean…