Arriving in Antigua, amidst hills and volcanoes, the temperature in the air had changed drastically. After one night there we decided to get on a four hour chicken bus ride down to the coast, to a beach town known for surfing and turtle hatchings called Monterrico. The feeling there was completely different to the coast...Read More
Vang Vieng is to Laos what Monteverde is to Costa Rica, just as Lanquin is to Guatemala; it is an eco tourism paradise which lots of possible activities. The most famous one being the Semuc Champey view which was a 40minute uphill hike and then swimming in these limestone bridged pools afterwards. It was even...Read More
Flores is an island town on the Lake Petén in Guatemala, connected to the mainland by a bridge. Most tourists here seem to come to see the famous Tikal Maya ruins, but Flores has been a great hang out city so we decided to stay here a couple of nights over Christmas as well. It...Read More
Caye Caulker feels like one small amusent park for adults. There are no cars or motorbikes, only bikes and some drunk people driving golf carts around. A walk around the island takes less than an hour and when you go through the streets in the North you are guaranteed to be asked at least ten...Read More
Just half an hour boat trip from Corozal, a bordertown in Northern Belize, we arrived in a small fishing village called Sarteneja. The place was exactly what we had been looking for; cheap local food, charming cheap bungalows at a place called “Backpackers Paradise” and plenty of space to ourselves- far away from the touristy...Read More
As Chichen Itza was easily seen in half a day, we decided to hop on a collectivo to Tulum to spend the evening there. We had hoped that it would be less touristic than Cancun and Plays del Carmen but I am sad to say that the main street there was completely packed with tourists...Read More
The famous “el Castillo” in “Chicken Itza” Arriving at Cancun airport we headed straight to the city for lunch before getting on a bus to Valladolid. It was a place i never had heard about before this day, but apparently it is the closest city to Chichen Itza and also home to some of Mexicos...Read More
Sometimes you drive accross a border and everything changes in an instant. The language, currency, food, architecture, history etc is different. That is what happened when I got off the boat from Suriname and entered Guyana. The border sign sums up the culture in Guyana In Paramaribo, Suriname it felt a bit like being back...Read More
The Mosque and Synagogue peacefully side by side Arriving in Paramaribo, Suriname from Trinidad was just surreal. For those of you who don’t know where Suriname is, it is at the North Coast of South America, somewhere between Brazil and Venezuela, but even though it is in South America it does not feel much like...Read More
Port of Spain does not have the best reputation among capital cities. It has a high crime rate and has not much to see an do. Arriving with the 6am ferry I had a whole day to spend, so I walked around looking at the churched, did some shopping and ate some delicious Trinidad-Indian street...Read More
Pirates Bay, at the Northern tip of Tobago Tobago is simply a backpackers paradise. Everything is much cheaper than in the rest of the Caribbean, you can legally camp for free on all the beaches and it is one of the places in the World where I have most easily gotten to hitch rides with...Read More
My initial plan when coming to Tobago was to rent a scooter, drive around the island and camp at the beaches, but I didn’t get further than to bucco where I stayed five nights at Fish Tobago Guesthouse. The place was really quiet, except for Sundays when people are coming from the whole island to...Read More
Since St. Vincent I have been traveling with a Norwegian ferry, a mailboat, a school boat and a couple of sail boats. It was when I first got to Grenada that I had to board another flight again to continue my journey down to Trinidad. Grenada has the reputation of being one of the most...Read More
At the lion fish barbeque in Carriacou I was so lucky to meet Anne-Laure and Amaury who were going to sail down to Grenada the next morning and let me hitch a ride with them. Compared to other boats I have been on, I must say that theirs, la Orana was the most relaxed which...Read More
