Posts in Category: Central America
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Ambergris Caye – Almost UnBelizeable
This will be the final post from the amazing trip Alison and I took through Central America with Adventures Abroad last February, led by their extraordinary guide, Victor Romagnoli. In the last post we said goodbye to Victor and our fellow travellers (in the proper sense of that phrase), as they headed back to Canada and […]
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Belize Zoo & The Last Day
Sadly, this is my final post from Victor Romagnoli’s epic tour through all the countries in Central America for Adventures Abroad . The group has been to Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and finally Belize where the trip will end in Belize City tomorrow morning as we all depart for our homes […]
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Caracol – Visiting Belize’s Amazing Sky Palace
This is my second post from Belize, the final country on Victor Romagnoli’s one of a kind guided odyssey through all of Central America for Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad. In the first post from Belize I gave my first impressions of this tiny country as we visited several Mayan sites including climbing El Castillo […]
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Belize – The Final Destination
I’m finding it hard to believe, but we are headed for the final country in Victor Romagnoli’s guided tour of all seven Central American countries for Adventures Abroad. We have just wrapped up an amazing eight days in Guatemala capped off by a visit to the best Mayan site I’ve ever seen – Tikal. This […]
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Tikal – Guatemala’s Mayan Masterpiece
This is my final post on our visit to Guatemala as part of Victor Romagnoli’s Central American odyssey for Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad. Visiting every country on this vast isthmus that stretches almost 3,000 kilometres (1840 miles) from Colombia to Mexico has been an eye opening experience to say the least. I now understand […]
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Antigua – Guatemala’s Magic Ruined City
Alison and I are continuing our journey through every country in Central America with guide Victor Romagnoli leading the way on behalf of Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad. We just spent two amazing days in the Lake Atitlan area which I describe in this post and now we are headed the short distance to the famed […]
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San Simon – Guatemala’s Playboy Saint
At the end of my last post on beautiful Lake Atitlan I wrote that I would see you next in the city of Antigua, but we’ve decided to take a detour to see something that wasn’t on the original itinerary. By we, I mean a group led by expert guide Victor Romagnoli for Canadian travel […]
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Lake Atitlan – Guatemala’s Alpine Wonder
This is my second post from the wondrous country of Guatemala which, despite years of civil unrest, finally seems to be returning to a semblance of normalcy that is seeing the return of tourists to the most popular areas. The first post highlighted the amazing market in the mountain town of Chichicastenango where I also […]
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Chichicastenango – Guatemalan Market Town
We are close to the home stretch on Victor Romagnoli’s Central American odyssey for Adventures Abroad. Previously the group has visited Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador and lastly the ruins of Copan in Honduras. Today we are crossing back into Guatemala which we briefly traversed on the way to Copan. Our destination is the […]