Latin America
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The Bus Busker in Latin America: All the Road's a Stage
In Latin America the bus is king, holding the place occupied by the automobile in North America or the train in Europe. More than the dominant form of transport, it’s ...
Heidi's Bar, Travel in Granada, Nicaragua
Despite an affinity for the music of Tom Waits and the blues
, I’d never spent much time sitting at a bar until i came to Granada, Nicaragua. There ...
Medellin, Colombia - Everyone's Dream Holiday
The trouble with writing about all the danger, the drug abuse and the misery produced by the war is that it makes Medellin sound like a terrible place. Make no ...
Facing a Fear
I’m afraid of water.
It started the summer I was five when my uncle “taught” me to swim by throwing me into the middle of Jones’ pond. My ...
Baja Surf Trip
People say a lot of things about California – that it’s the end of civilization, that it’s destined to fall into the sea, that its beauty can be fake ...
Busin’ El Salvadorian Style
It’s fair to say that I don’t like rush hour. Back home, I’ll do almost anything to avoid those two hours at the end of the day, when three quarters ...
Amazon Boat Ride in Peru
Iquitos, Peru
Relaxing on the roof terrace-come-menagerie that was the hotel without a name, just two blocks off the Plaza De Arms in Lima, Peru. Something was missing from my trip ...
Nazca to Cusco
Seemed logical, looking at a map. A to B, Nazca to Cusco. The unpaved road snaked out of town north-east. Admittedly it did cross the Andes, the Cordillera Occidental at ...
Panama City Is a Dump
[This article drew a complaint from the Panamanian Ambassador to Japan, something I consider a real achievement]
For some reason it had seemed like a smart idea to catch the ...
Ometepe Travel Nicaragua Volcano
“Con gusto,” our waiter said as he set a plate of gallo pinto in front of each of us. The fried rice and beans mix, a staple of most meals ...
Granada, Nicaragua, the Backpacker Invasion
The road through Nicaragua is like a tongue of tarmac squeezing through a rolling landscape of green; not the dense vegetation of the jungle that suffocates all view but rather ...
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Only a Fool Would Arrive at Night
From the moment I arrived it felt ugly. I’d spent the last three hours in the bus attempting to understand the vague drawl that the Hondurans imagined to be Spanish ...
Day of the Dead Guatemala Story
I don’t get it. There’s a man in the marketplace of San Pedro, a village by Lake Atilan in Guatemala, who sells sweet syrupy drinks poured over ice and at ...
Lake Atitlan Guatemala
You’d need a couple of days to walk around the 50 km around the perimeter of Lake Atilan and there’s no road connection between the main town of Panajachel and ...
Guatemala Chicken Bus
The Buses of Mexico are of the luxury variety that guarantees a passenger his own reclining seat. They often have a bathroom in the back and the drivers are so ...
San Marcos Hippy Village Atitlan Guatemala
It takes time to get to know water. Every beach, river and lake has its own character and the nature of it is often as profound as the waters are ...
Monteverde Cloud Forest Costa Rica
I followed my friend, Irmi, through a world of green, trees and plants of every description filling the air with moist, sultry scents, water trickling down leaves and trunks in ...
Once Upon a Time in Mexico - Tortillas, Manana
“Mexico is slow.”
My friend Tanya told me: a big mama type born and raised in Mexico but with features and build inherited from her Cuban mother. The people in ...
San Cristobal, Chiapas - Zapatista Story, Mexico
San Cristobal de las Casas is just a few hours up from the jungle but the air cools dramatically, crisp breezes from the hills replacing the moist breath of the ...
Palenque Travel Mexico
Life dripped off every leaf and it was as though we could hear the jungle breathing around us. Sunlight began to filter through the dewy vegetation and we walked like ...
Colombia Civil War
Colombia has been at war with itself for more than fifty years and most people seem to have forgotten why. Whereas in somewhere like Israel everyone talks about the ...
Colombia, Paradise of Patriots
I’ve never understood patriotism. It’s always seemed to me the seed for hatred, violence and war. To take pride in one’s own country is a short step away from taking ...
Medellin, Don't Give Papaya
Medellin is a city with a small town feeling to it. The outlying neighbourhoods climb the slopes on each side of the valley basin and when I get lost at ...
Medellin, Colombia - Paradise on Earth
“Never say anything bad about Medellin to a local here. They think it’s paradise on earth. And never say anything against the Catholic religion either. They think it’s the best ...
Kidnapping in Colombia
In jest kidnapping has been called Latin America’s fastest growing industry. While there’s nothing funny about it for the victims of their families it cannot be denied as something of ...
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Coke and Favelas
A factor of living in third world countries like Brazil is that you can’t usually trust the police. They stopped and searched me a couple of times near my apartment ...
Ipanema Apartment, Rio de Janeiro
I found and rented a apartment in Rio de Janeiro after only one afternoon of looking around. The ad had been put in the paper by a little old lady ...
A Brazilian Prostitute
I’d met Luciana in the street during the Carnival in Brazil and she invited me to stay her afterwards in her apartment on the other side of Recife. But from ...
Sexy Brazil Carnival in Olinda
As a kid in England I remember that the third most exciting day in the Christian calendar (after Present Day and Chocolate Egg Day) was Shrove Tuesday. 40 odd days ...
Servants, Slaves and Unintentional Seduction in Brazil
The wealthy in a poor country tend to be far richer than the wealthy in a rich country. There may not be quite as many zeros in their bank accounts ...
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Poverty, Poodles and Favelas
The inequalities of wealth in Brazil were so appalling that I couldn’t understand why no one ever seemed to talk about it. The glitzy shipping malls in Rio de Janeiro ...
Rio de Janeiro Nightlife
Despite its fame as the party capital of the world it took me a few weeks to even find the nightlife in Rio de Janeiro, especially in my part neighbourhood, ...
Brazil Carnival - Falling in Love
The media hype Brazil as a land of easy sex in order to draw millions of foreign men each year to enjoy the Carnival. And like any major sex tourist ...
Rio de Janeiro, Love in Lapa
Lapa is the only real Rio nightlife for me. It’s a street in a historic district of the city where all classes and ages of people come to mingle through ...
Brazil Amazon Hell Trip
When most people think of a river trip they imagine a peaceful excursion along the shores of Nature, picnics in the sun and an old boat creaking along in the ...
Costa Rica Travel Story Brush with Death in Corcovado
In the earlier months of our trip the three of us from Calgary, traveling in Costa Rica together figured out that the jungle held a special allure. We had been ...
Parque Tyrona Colombia Travel Story
Parque Tayrona, a national park, the perfect retreat from Cartagena
, this is the place where Steve McQueen fell in love with the Guajira Indians after he escaped whilst ...
Monteserrat Yacht Story, Caribbean
It was early May 1990, and I was single-handing from Tortola to Venezuela, island-hopping as I worked my way south. After a few days in the Dutch island of ...
Caribbean Scam
Mr Lombardi was first introduced to me by my partner, Mike. At that time, our office consisted of a ship’s container with one end hacked off and a large ...
Candy from a Baby
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Everyone has heard the expression, “it’s like taking candy from a baby.” We hear this phrase all the time, but does anyone ever think about the “baby” that ...
Bolivia Drugs Story - Where's my Dealer?
Trinidad, on your way towards Brazil in Western Bolivia. Instead of taking what is well documented as the most dangerous road in the world, La Paz to Coroico, but I’d ...
Raft down the Amazon in Peru
I’d been traveling for about a month since I finished my service with the Peace Corps in Paraguay. I was with my Chilean girlfriend, Pali, and our hope was to ...
Baseball in Havana, Cuba
Havana, Cuba
It was a group of Mormon missionaries that I had met only a few weeks earlier in Mexico that had proposed the idea of going to Cuba. They had ...
Man Kiss - Argentina
I’m not gay, but I kiss men.
Not on the lips, I haven’t crossed that border. In Argentina – as in many Latin countries, the cheek-to-cheek greeting (though in some parts, ...
Latin America Travel News
- 'Alive' Andes Flight Disaster Mountain Expedition - India Business Blog (blog)
- Travellers Guide to Antarctica - Independent
- Jamaica Named Golf Destination Of The Year For The Caribbean And Latin America - South Florida Caribbean News
- Alumnus Bikes Across Latin America - Illinois Wesleyan University
- Transat beefs up France operations by teaming with travel agency network - The Canadian Press
