Posts in Category: Central America
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Nicaragua – Some Random Thoughts
We have just completed the Nicaragua portion of Adventures Abroad’s Central America trip designed and guided by Victor Romagnoli who is one of the few people who has more than a passing interest and knowledge of this misunderstood country. While I will be writing specific posts about many of the places we visited in Nicaragua […]
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Monteverde Redux -The Second Time Around
I first visited Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica in 2018 and was blown away by its beauty and birdlife which I described in this post. I have returned early in 2020 on the Central America trip led by Victor Romagnoli for Adventures Abroad the same Canadian company I traveled with on the first visit. […]
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Manuel Antonio – Costa Rica’s Most Popular Park
This is the first true post on the Adventures Abroad’s 2020 tour of Central America led by guide extraordinaire Victor Romagnoli. In my last post I extolled some of the virtues of the Costa Rican capital, San Jose before joining up with the rest of the group who began this tour with Victor in Panama a […]
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San Jose Costa Rica – The Way & the Why
Dionne Warwick famously asked “Do you know the way to San Jose?” in her 1968 hit song lamenting the insanity of Los Angeles and longing for the breathing space of San Jose, California. Fast forward some fifty plus years and I doubt that anyone would consider that apparently once idyllic small city to be a […]
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Tortuguero – Turtles vs. Jaguars
In a previous post on the Monteverde cloud forest, I described Costa Rica as a country which seasoned travellers should have no difficulty navigating on their own, with a couple of exceptions. The first was Monte Verde, simply because of the very difficult road conditions and the second is the island of Tortuguero on the northern […]
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Monteverde – Costa Rica’s Amazing Cloud Forest
In 2018 year Alison and I visited Colombia and Panama on a tour with our favourite travel company Adventures Abroad. You can read about that amazing trip in any one of the 20 + posts on this website. Although the tour was continuing on to Costa Rica our original plan was to call it a […]
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Bocas del Toro – Panama’s Caribbean Paradise
This is my final post on a recent trip to Panama with Canadian travel specialists, Adventures Abroad and this post’s destination, Bocas del Toro is a 100% contrast from the Chiriqui Highlands where we spent the last two days. Whereas the Chiriqui Highlands were cool and wet, Bocas del Toro promises to be hot and sunny […]
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Chiriqui Highlands – Search for the Quetzal
This is my fourth post on a recent visit to the country of Panama with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad. The first three were all centered around activities in and around Panama City including a tour of the old and new city, a half transit of the Panama Canal and a visit to an Indigenous village. As […]
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Embera Indigenous Village, Panama
My visit to Panama continues with a completely different experience from the half crossing of the Panama Canal which was an example of hyper modernity with the largest ships in the world moving massive amounts of products from one continent to another. In this post I go in the opposite direction. The interaction between the […]