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The best beaches in Central America on both oceans: black volcanic sand on the Pacific and coral reef on the Caribbean.
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…
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…
Surf City 2: El Cuco, Las Flores and eastern El Salvador
If El Tunco feels too busy, the answer is three and a half hours east. The stretch El…
El Tunco: a guide to El Salvador’s best-known beach
El Tunco is a village of two dirt streets, black sand and a rock in the water shaped…
Surf City El Salvador: a complete guide to the surf coast
Surf City is the name El Salvador gave its coastline in 2019, when the country decided to build…
San Pedro and Ambergris Caye: a guide to Belize’s largest island
Ambergris Caye is Belize’s big island and San Pedro, its only town, the most visited place in the…
Caye Caulker: a guide to the “go slow” island in Belize
There are no cars on Caye Caulker, no hurry and not a great deal to do. That is…
Bocas del Toro: a guide to the Panamanian Caribbean, island by island
Wooden houses on stilts, turquoise water between the boards, bicycles, reggae in the background and a mix of…