Ahoy hoy, Not long to write this one, time runs out in 14 minutes. We're now in Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast of Colombia having spent six days in Cartagena (just a few longer than planned). The flight was a hell of a lot less painful than those in Europe - very little hassle from security and just a gentle search from Customs in Colombia. The airport in Panama did, however, have nowhere to buy food on the airside except for an overpriced hot dog stall wh...

Hi, Just a quickie today, not much has happened since the last one. We now find ourselves in Panama City, the last stop on the Central American leg (Colombia next...). San José: Volcán Poás, to the north of the capital, is an active volcano with a nice, easy path leading up to the main crater to let you look inside without all the hassle of hiking it. It's all very impressive, and we saw a couple of squirrels. And a rabbit. None of these were in ...

Hi all, Bit of a gap since our last blog due to laziness. We're now in San José, Costa Rica's capital, after passing through Nicaragua and visiting some other parts of Costa Rica. After our last post, we went off to Parque Nacional La Tigra where we had a lovely hike but saw very few of the animals we were promised (I say promised, we were just reading that they live in the country and being very optimistic). We did see a paca and a squirrel though. We then ...

Yo yo yo, We've made our way down into Tegucigalpa in the heart of Honduras after a mildly inconvenient spell in Utila and a couple of stopovers in La Ceiba. We were led away from Copán in a 15 seater microbus containing up to 23 people, which was fun, and then took several more buses on our way to La Ceiba on the north coast for a night's stopover before continuing to Utila of the famous Bay Islands in the morning. In our time there we went to Pizza Hut...

Lo all, We now find ourselves in Honduras, having passed through El Salvador without really noticing it. Antigua, Guatemala was fun, and the climb up Volcán Pacaya very tiring, so much so that we needed an extra day in Antigua to recover. Lava is surprisingly warm. There was also a woman who had opted to climb an active volcano in jeans and flip-flops - hardcore. On our way back from the volcano we could see nearby Volcán Fuego errupting, and overheard se...