CANADA | Sunday, 3 Aug 2008 | Views [1519]
You can hear them before you see them the whop whop of the helicopter rotors, the anticipation builds as the wind from the blades pushes against you and you lean into it. The adventure began on a helipad near Golden, British Columbia, everyone is gathered ... Read more >
CANADA | Sunday, 27 Jul 2008 | Views [637]
Calgary is a small town that’s become a big city of just over one million people; it is a clean city of curiously empty streets and a great deal of construction projects. We arrived in the evening and this was our first couchsurfing destination (for ... Read more >
COSTA RICA | Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008 | Views [1182]
Walter Ferguson - "National Park"
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Santa Elena is a Tico (Costa Rica) town founded sometime in the 1930s by loggers and farmers; it adjoins the Quaker ... Read more >
Tags: costa rica, monteverde, santa elena
COSTA RICA | Sunday, 20 Jul 2008 | Views [1262]
La Fortuna was a sleepy farming town until it was “discovered” and now the grid of streets are lined with hotels, hostels, tour operators and souvenir shops. The main attraction of the area is its proximity to the Arenal Volcano and the relative affordability ... Read more >
Tags: arenal, costa rica, la fortuna
COSTA RICA | Friday, 18 Jul 2008 | Views [1030]
Liberia, located in north western Costa Rica is a provincial capital and ranching town of about 45,000 people. Though it had little to offer in the way of tourist attractions, we loved Liberia for its slow paced tree lined streets where everyone sits ... Read more >
NICARAGUA | Monday, 14 Jul 2008 | Views [589]
La Isla Omotepe, an Island created by twin volcanoes that through eruptions formed an isthmus between themselves, is situated in Lake Nicaragua although here due to the vastness of the lake you feel that you are on the ocean. The ferry ride over to ... Read more >
NICARAGUA | Sunday, 13 Jul 2008 | Views [620]
Situated on the shores of Lake Nicaragua (also known as Lake Cocibolca) at the foot of the Monbacho Volcano, Granada is Nicaragua’s oldest colonial city and probably isn’t largest tourist draw. Despite the touristic nature of the city we all loved ... Read more >
NICARAGUA | Thursday, 10 Jul 2008 | Views [826]
Little Corn is a small Caribbean island located about 70 km off the coast of Nicaragua. The population is only about 700 and the atmosphere is very laid back. It is not as inexpensive as many of the other places we have traveled so far but it was well ... Read more >
HONDURAS | Sunday, 6 Jul 2008 | Views [1962]
We took a taxi up to the Jungle River Lodge on the Rio Cangrejal in the rainforest of the coast of Honduras. This rustic lodge offers eco adventure tours, including rafting, hiking, and canopy zip line tours. After checking in and signing up for ... Read more >
HONDURAS | Saturday, 5 Jul 2008 | Views [1248]
The Bay Islands lay 50km off the Caribbean coast of Honduras along the second largest barrier reef in the world. Utila, the most affordable of the three islands, is one of the least expensive places in the world to learn to dive. Amy and Turgay decided ... Read more >
Tags: diving, honduras, utila, world travel
HONDURAS | Sunday, 22 Jun 2008 | Views [936]
This small town of about 7000 is located in north central Honduras near the Mayan ruins of Copan. The white washed buildings with red tiled roofs along cobble stoned streets lend the town a wonderful atmosphere. We stayed in hotel Brisas de Copan, ... Read more >
Tags: copan, copan ruinas, honduras, world tour, world travel
HONDURAS | Sunday, 22 Jun 2008 | Views [1203]
This small town of about 7000 is located in north central Honduras near the Mayan ruins of Copan. The white washed buildings with red tiled roofs along cobble stoned streets lend the town a wonderful atmosphere. We stayed in hotel Brisas de Copan, ... Read more >
Tags: copan, copan ruinas, honduras, world tour, world travel
GUATEMALA | Thursday, 19 Jun 2008 | Views [1303]
Amy, Turgay, Chris, Pa’ and myself headed out early in the morning on a small boat from Livingston up the Rio Dulce (Sweet River) to a town that bears the same name. The banks of this scenic river are dotted with fishing villages and individual houses ... Read more >
Tags: guatemala, rio dulce, world tour, world travel
GUATEMALA | Wednesday, 18 Jun 2008 | Views [591]
We arrived in Livingston to find that the hostel we were thinking of staying in was booked on our walk back toward the center of town we passed another small hotel, the Dolfin La Posada. It had a pool and looked extremely clean, after discovering ... Read more >
BELIZE | Tuesday, 17 Jun 2008 | Views [539]
We all caught a ride in pick up to a small hotel run by an American ex-pat, where we shared a bathroom ad a kitchen with Chris ad Maartje. The owner of the hotel was extremely nice and even did Amy and Turgay’s laundry for free. Placencia is a small ... Read more >
Tags: belize, placencia
BELIZE | Saturday, 14 Jun 2008 | Views [1765]
We left early in the morning on Friday, taking all of our stuff that would need to be stowed on the boat and only taking a day pack for the next few days. After breakfast we boarded the Raga Queen run by Ragamuffin Tours and headed out sailing with ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, belize, cayes, islands, sailing
BELIZE | Friday, 13 Jun 2008 | Views [593] | Comments [2]
We crossed the border into Belize walking over with all of our belongings and meeting the same bus on the other side. On the bus we passed through San Ignacio, it is one of the only places we didn’t stop that Amy says she really wishes we had visited.... Read more >
Tags: belize, caye caulker
GUATEMALA | Wednesday, 11 Jun 2008 | Views [1174]
We left Lanquin early in the morning heading off to Flores with a tourist minibus. We stopped briefly in Copan where Turgay and Amy found what they said was excellent banana bread. As we continued on the eight hour journey we came to a river at Sayaxche.... Read more >
Tags: flores, guatemala, tikal
GUATEMALA | Monday, 9 Jun 2008 | Views [752]
The journey to Lanquin was a long one, we traveled all day beginning in San Pedro La Laguna traveling to Antigua and from there to Guatemala City followed by another journey to Coban and a final minibus ride over some paved and some unpaved roads to ... Read more >
Tags: gutemala, lanquin, semuc champey
GUATEMALA | Friday, 6 Jun 2008 | Views [521]
We arrived at Panajachel on the shores of Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalan highlands in the early afternoon and went straight down to the dock where after avoiding all the people trying to "help us" we boarded a boat that took us to the opposite shore ... Read more >
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