OK so at the end of my travels in Central America (I leave for Colombia tomorrow morning) I have officially found PARADISE. Manuel Antonio is the most beautiful place that I have ever been. The only place which is similar in my opinion is the Whitsunday Islands - however the only drawback there is that you have to wear full wet suits as there are loads of jelly fish - none here, so Costa Rica wins!! Despite all the development due to the increase in the number o...

The last few days in Nicaragua went really quickly. After an extremely long boat ride down to San Carlos (17 hours overnight arriving at 6am - thankfully will never have to make this journey again!), I had a quick bite to eat before catching the 10am river boat to a little town/village called El Castillo. The boat trip went through very scenic countryside with lush green rainforests, lots of wildlife and fat happy animals (rather than all the skinny, half dead on...

So for all those feeling jealous of the fun adventures...you'll be pleased to know its not ALWAYS non stop fun when travelling and sometimes I feel jealous of everyone back at home!! Yesterday morning Lou left at 5.45am to head back to the UK (luckily no delays this time!). After she left and despite my best efforts to be positive I did feel a little bit sad that she had gone and I was still here at the hostel moving into stinky dorms rather than our nice PRIVATE...

Hi everyone! Hope you are all well and that it is not snowing too heavily in the UK. Poor Lou had a nightmare flight out... her flight from JFK was cancelled and in total she ended up with a 17 hour delay in New York airport (with no food or drink compensation - never fly American Airlines!) followed by 12 hours delay in Miami all due to the snow. Eventually we met up and started our travels together... First we headed to Utila in the Bay Islands, Honduras. The...

The day after Kate left, I hopped on a bus from Guatemala to Belize. The trip was fairly short and uneventful. I arrived in Belize City around midday and grabbed a bite to eat at a street stall. Everyone here tends to speak English so for once I actually felt like I knew what was going on!! Belize City is not a great place and I was glad to only spend an hour there before boarding the water taxi to Caye Caulkner. The weather was incredible, bright blue skies, hot...