Instead of taking a four hour tourist bus into Antigua in Guatamala, we insted decided to be cheap and only take the chicken buses. Three cramped bumpy rides and seven hours later, we had only just made it to the Guatamalan border; to late to get any buses further. It`s well known that border towns are never fun places but this one was a very odd place. As we entered the hotel, we saw a very drunk man collapse in the hotel`s restaurant. Two hours later we saw him...

The Salvadorean Pacific coast is apparently one of the best surf spots in the world. Unfortunately the sport didn`t come as naturally to me as I thought it should. After an hour of lessons, I made almost no progress in even standing up on the surfboard and finished feeling exhausted and in slight physical uncomfort from lying on the board for so long. I tried again the next day, but this just added more humiliation by being shown up by ten year olds. I realised e...

Leaving the hostel in Granada at four in the morning, I was so tired on the bus that I slept through the two hours in which I was in Honduras, which according to my passport I have visited. We arrived in San Salvador in the early afternoon and checked into a hostel, ominously in the undertaker`s district of town. It was also one of the few hostels in which you don`t pay for a room by the hour. If our first impressions of the El Salvador capital were not bad enoug...

Granada is supposedly one of the best colonial cities in Central America, situated on the shore of Lago de Nicaragua. However, for various reasons I failed to experience this aspect of Granada. My first day here was spent organising various things that had been neglected for too long, for example, getting a haircut. I was a bit nervous when the barber decided to turn the chair away from the mirror so I was unable to see the progress but eventually it turned out a...

Even after only three days in Nicaragua, it is by far the best country I`ve visited in Central America. It`s cheap, friendly and looks far better than both Costa Rica and Panama did (people and countryside). After leaving San Jose slightly later than we had hoped to, we were forced to spend our first night in Rivers, what was described as a dirty crossing town, but turned out to be very pleasant, with exeption to our hotel room. We left early the next day to the...