Today has been one of the most draining, most nerve-racking but also most rewarding days I've ever had travelling. I was up bright and early at 6am to an already bustling San Salvador, streets brimming with gas belching traffic and sidewalks packed with streetvendors, school kids and suit-lined businessmen. I headed to the domestic bus terminal for all destinations west of San Salvador - one of the most confusing I've ever been in. It was a dirty melee of repain...

I'm in El Salvador! This is Central America's smallest and most densely populated nation, and also one of the world's most violent. El Salvador is world famous for the wrong reasons. A US backed borderline dictatorship recruited paramilitary death squads to massacre the masses back in the 80s to try and stop a socialist sympathising guerilla group from seizing power. America lost and the FMLN control El Salvador to this day, overseeing mass industrialisation an...

So... Long story short. Costa Rica is very expensive. Panama is to. After talking to some travellers, I've decided to shake things up drastically from my original plan and spend my last two weeks in the region in places I really, really want to go. I'm in San Jose Airport now after a hot sweaty bus ride from Cahuita. I've got four hours of temperamental wi-fi and annoying Americans before boarding my flight... to somewhere close... Vamos!

Last day in Costa Rica today and its been very...chill. The day's been a bit of a wash out as the heavy thunderstorm has rolled off the Caribbean to drench the town of Cahuita meaning I've been left with time to catch up on rest before a hectic final couple of weeks in Central America. I did manage to make a visit to the Cahuita National Park and walk part of the trail to 'Punta Vargas' and look out across the Caribbean. Then the rain came... I also managed to...

This morning I awoke early in a room full of sleeping Germans (Bocas del Toro should be renamed 'New Frankfurt') and headed out to take one of the first water taxis bound for the neighbouring island of Bastimentos. The population of Bocas del Toro is a melting pot of Castillo Panamanians, the descendants of African slaves, Chinese migrants and native Ngabe indians. Bastimentos is a more rugged version of the main island, Bocas, and although tourism's creeping im...