North Central Province

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... fly to LA to spend a few nights partying before heading to Mexico City. From Mexico we make our way down through Central America, passing through Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua to reach Costa Rica. After exploring the tropics here we fly to Panama where we ...

Hello! This is a snipit of my adventures while working on the North Coast of Honduras from June 2004 through to June 2005. For friends and family to keep an eye on what I have been up to down here...

Hi all Our dream was to travel through South and Central America overland in Stanley our Toyota Landcruiser...However with economic crisis (read: shipping agent extortionate rising price and delays) we've had to forgo Stanley, who now resides ...

Chasing the sun through North, Central and South America, Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia.

The second day of the Sri Lanka trip saw us leaving Colombo for the historic first capital of Anuradhapura, in north-central Sri Lanka. I had heard of the city's antiquity and historical importance - founded in 900 BC as the first capital of the Sinhalese ...

... often including the environment. I would be proven right! Anyways, my main reason for traveling out to this part of central province was to explore the bush, plant hunting essentially. On the lookout for pictures of anything flowering to add to my ...

... ; The river looked like most other rivers I had thrown a fly in,  but there were no trout rising.   Here in north central Costa Rica, where the night time temperatures rarely dip below 70 degrees, it is too hot for trout; we were after fish ...

I have always thought I would really enjoy seeing ruins that were older than Jesus himself. What I learned on this particular day was that it depends on what I am looking at and what the current weather is. This probably makes me pretty shallow, I know. ...

This trip has been well planned.It started in Negombo in a relaxing hotel on the beach with a pool and a pool bar! The next day was off up the west coast, visiting a coconut plantation on the way, to Anuradhapura, where the lodging was a colonial style ...

Started this morning by finishing our visit to some sights in Anuradhapura that we missed yesterday. First stop was the Sacred Bodhi (Bo) Tree – home of an offspring of the tree where Buddha found enlightenment. This was bought from India by ...

... hands and say goodbye and wave us off. We felt really special.  :)       lol I thought we would just head north from Galle but we went back west, almost to Colombo and then turned north. It was great to see the day to day life as ...

Today we travel south from our North East location at Cinnamon Lodge and the area of Habarana. The journey was around five and a half hours so we travelled via a City called Kandy to break the journey up. Kandy is a small and very condensed city, making ...

... no one is coming the other way. Our drive to the Hartbeespoort Dam was very pretty. The outskirts of Johannesburg look like the central coast of California and much more lush than expected, although it is Spring coming into Summer of course. The Elephant ...

... gave us true adventure and a chance to see the flora and fauna up close. Jungle Canopy Tour About two hours from the province capital city, Liberia, is the Rincón de la Vieja National Park. The park begins at the flanks of Rincón de la Vieja ...

... highlands. Our first stop was the town of La Fortuna at the base of Volcan Arenal. Arenal is the most active volcano in Central America and visitors are regularly treated to plumes of steam and smoke as well as the occasional spewing of lava and red-hot ...

Bye bye, Drake Bay!  Helloo, Central Valley. We checked out early in the morning to take the 7:15am boat to Sierpe (again, boats leave from Drake Bay to Sierpe twice a day).  This time the captain took a mini detour and went through mangroves. ...

... the ferry that left from there. That gave us an extra night, so we took a side trip to Puerto Varas, about 25km north of P. Montt.  Varas is a resort town based on Lago Llanquihue (pronounced Lago Yankee Way - no wonder our Spanish isn´t ...