Tuesday 23 July - Monday 29 July Panama City We departed San Jose at 11pm on the last of our Ticabus legs. The bus pulled up to the Costa Rican border at 3:45am, everyone off the bus to form an orderly queue at the office, whilst bus drives off to the Panama side. After some lastminute border crossing research, we were prepared that we'd have to wait around until 6am for the office to open. 2 hours 15 minutes later the standing contest was declared a draw b...

Tuesday 16 July - Monday 22 July Coasting through Costa Rica Casa Colon Hostel is a beautifully renovated colonial home situated on a main road in the centre of San Jose, having not inserted any ear plugs before we dropped into bed, we didn't get too much sleep before the traffic and hooting started. After a hearty Costa Rican lunch served up by the sweet ladies in this gorgeous hostel, we headed off on foot to pick up our rental car. First stop - the funky l...

Thursday 11 July - Monday 15 July TICA BUS Mexico to Costa Rica By the time we left Mexico, a deadline had been set for us to catch a boat from Panama for Colombia on the 29th July....deposit paid. That left us with about 2,5 weeks to do Central America.....not much time, so erring on the side of safety we thought we'd push on through to Costa Rica for about a week and leave ourselves a week in Panama. First stop was the Mexican/Guatemala border.........not...

Sunday 7 July - Wednesday 10 July San Cristobal de las Casas We arrived in San Cristobal around 11pm, only an hour and a half later than expected, and promptly had our taxi nabbed right from underneath our noses by this little chicita who giggled at us when we objected to her jumping into the only cab on the street - our cab! So we were left on the sidewalk in the dark, wishing we knew some more Mexican expletives! Luckily another cab came along soon enough...

Thursday 4 July - Saturday 6 July Palenque, Chiapas - Yaxchilan & Bonampak Ruins, Palenque Ruins, Misol-Ha & Agua Azul Cascadas After an event free overnight bus ride from Playa del Carmen, we arrived bright n early in Palenque on the 4th of July to be immediately accosted by Ivan (Eevan), a local tour operator offering 'the best and cheapest' tours to the sights around Palenque. Eevan did eventually bag our business mainly thanks to his well crafte...