Opting to fly to Bogota from Cartagena and then rejoin the tour group in Villa de Leyva was one of my wisest decisions to date. I skipped a hot and horrendous 18 hour trucking bus ride back to Bucaramanga and then more down to VdL. Sharing with Hayley and Stephanie…
ye olde worlde
charmingly stifiling Cartagena
/ 20/04/2013One of the main reasons I am riding this big yellow truck through Colombia is because I’ve been told by David the Colombian to visit Cartagena on the Caribbean coast. A favourite with domestic and international tourists it features a naval base, high end hotels, black sand beaches, three theatres,…
copa copa copa copa copa Copán
/ 05/03/2013Our first ciudad in Honduras was Copán…where it must be said, I lost my shitenhausen. Between absolutely amazing Mayan ruins frequented by macaws – that magnificent parrot in all the colours of the best things in the world – horse riding to charming villages up steep hillsides on little-more-than-ponies with…
matiox San Jorge La Laguna
/ 19/02/2013Up in the Guatemalan highlands the temperature drops and the character goes up. After stocking up on essentials like toilet paper, sugar, rice, oil, beans and powdered milk we continued onto San Jorge La Laguna on the shore of Lake Atitlan to meet our home stay families. A community of…
guat’s up Flores?
/ 19/02/2013Flores is a crowded little island on Lake Petén Itźa, Guatemala, popular with motorbike hoons and tourists with spectacular sunsets and a vibrant night life to offer. You can walk around the whole island in about 15 minutes, watch kids dodge traffic then leap into the water and try not…