Not everyday is a good day when you’re travelling for as long as I am, and the start of my Medellin journey was certainly evidence of this. I packed up my things and got the bus from Rio hostel to Santa Marta airport where I took a short flight to Medellin. I met up with […]

The next week or so of my trip was spent in various hostels in the North Coast of Colombia, near Santa Marta. The city Santa Marta itself is easily forgettable and supposedly quite sketchy, with most travellers using it as a gateway to the more picturesque and remote parts of the coast.    My first

Minca is a jungle ‘city’ nested in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Colombia not far from Santa Marta, in the North of Colombia. I got a morning bus from Cartagena to Santa Marta and then shared a taxi to Minca about an hour away into the jungle. The hostel was super nice, perched on a

Cartagena was brutally hot and humid, more so than anywhere I had previously been. Expectations were low for the coastal Caribbean city of Colombia, after various poorly reviewed accounts of the city from other travellers.    The city itself is visibly stunning, boasting colourful colonial architecture, bustling markets and a nice port surrounded by the

Sailing to Colombia was something I wanted to do from the very beginning of organising this trip as the infamous Blue Sailing, the company that runs the trip, is very well known and I had heard this trip was the highlight of many peoples Central America trip. It is a 4 night sailing journey -but

The long bus to Bocas Del Toro, Panama, started with a 6am hostel pick up in La Fortuna. The bus then stopped at the coastal city of Puerto Viejo, which many backpackers stop off at but I opted to skip and go straight to Bocas. The next bus was very delayed as I was left

Costa Rica: the budget backpacker’s worst nightmare. (Although if you saw some of my recent spendings, you’d hardly think I was on a budget at all). It is so expensive here and not just expensive for Central American standards but expensive for anywhere. Extensive research (a 30 second google) tells me that its due to

San Juan Del Sur was the last leg of the Nicaraguan adventure. It is a coastal town located on the Pacific Coast. I would compare San Juan Del Sur to that similar of a Cancun or Tulum in Mexico; very Americanised and Western, tailor-made for tourists. It has great nightlife but had a less authentic

Ometepe Island is an island in Lake Nicaragua that is formed from two volcanoes: Conception & Maderas. It is relatively close to Granada, an hour to the port city of Rivas and then a very uncomfortable 45 minute ferry to Ometepe. The island is quite spread out with limited means of public transportation so the

The long travel day from El Salvador to Nicaragua had begun and although I knew it would be a long day, I was definitely not prepared for how long and what would ensue.    I was picked up by my bus at 10am on the side of the road by El Tunco and the road