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Santa Marta, the oldest European city in the Americas
While Cartagena may receive all the attention as the most cosmopolitan and best preserved of Colombia’s colonial Caribbean cities, it is Santa Marta that can lay claim to being the oldest. Founded in...
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Paradise found, the spellbinding San Blas Islands
It is almost impossible to describe the overwhelming beauty of the San Blas Islands. They are everything a tropical paradise should be: white sand beaches floating in turquoise waters, coconut palms...
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Boat to paradise, the San Blas Islands
We spent four days in the San Blas Islands, although after the first few hours it felt like we’d been away from civilisation for several months. After an arduous morning of relaxing on Coco Blanco caye...
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The several faces of Bocas del Toro
Bocas del Toro is a magnet for tourists from all over the world, their popularity is obvious: beautiful palm fringed beaches, an easy-going vibe that is part-Caribbean, part-Central America and...
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A taste of the Pura Vida, sampling the culture of Costa Rica
The phrase Pura Vida has been adopted wholesale in Costa Rica and you can see it spray-painted onto walls, adorning t-shirts and in advertising campaigns on TV. It literally means pure life, but could...
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Parque Nacional Cahuita, small but perfectly formed
It is probably one of the smallest national parks I’ve ever visited but it has a level of biodiversity that would make many larger parks weep…and Parque Nacional Cahuita is only a short stroll from...
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Paradise found (again), Nicaragua’s spectacular Pearl Keys
The Pearl Keys are sublime, like being in a dream: perfect crescents of white sand, backed by swaying palms and coconut trees, hammocks slung between them; warm turquoise waters to snorkel and swim in...
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Little Corn Island, another piece of paradise in the Caribbean
After our time in Pearl Lagoon and on the Pearl Keys, its seemed unlikely that Nicaragua’s much-heralded Corn Islands would live up to their billing as some of the Caribbean’s finest islands only...
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Latin America…14 months in 14 photographs
Its almost impossible to sum up our experiences in fourteen photographs, but these represent some of our favourite places and events from our time in Latin America. Bolivia’s most colourful and unusual...
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A day at the beach, Cayo Jutias
Cuba and beaches go hand-in-hand. Exquisite stretches of fine white sand grace every tourist brochure about the country. Most of those beaches are home to large resorts full of Canadians and Europeans...
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