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 Survivor Costa RicaIt was Baywatch, Cast Away, Joe Versus the Volcano and Survivor all rolled into one. A group of 39 travel agents and tour reps headed on a family trip to this Central American country, with a flight from Vancouver to Liberia (pronounced le-bare-ia) on the Pacific side of this eco-friendly country the size of Nova Scotia.
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 Don't be shy - go for a dealOn my first solo visit to outdoor market in the colonial city of Merida, the capital of the Mexican Yucatan, I was too embarrassed to barter. I knew haggling over prices was expected, but I couldn't shake the fear that I would appear cheap and petty by asking for reduced prices.
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 My own private NicaraguaMost visitors to Nicaragua head for southern San Juan del Sur where broiling beaches and pounding surf attract hordes of SUVs and condo developments. Others traverse the León-Managua-Granada route in central Nicaragua to soak up art, nightlife and volcanoes.
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 Colonial architecture part of Granada's charmFor If Granada invokes the heady smell of orange blossoms, the lavish Moorish-styled Alhambra or the rhythms of flamenco guitar, you've travelled too far.
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 Habitat trip gives woman new perspectiveBucket brigades on sweltering Salvadoran afternoons are probably etched forever in Suzanne Gauthier's memory.
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 Guatemala's beauty is irresistibleSo after years of my wife and I repeatedly telling everyone that we were not "resort people" the time had come to live up to our word and take a real adventure holiday.
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 Travel, with a humanitarian purposeWhen the British Columbia Nurses' Union posted an ad for a two-week learning excursion in El Salvador and Honduras, I jumped at the opportunity. One snowy morning in December, I was thrilled to discover that I would be one of 13 registered nurses sponsored for this expedition. I could picture our group visiting the people of El Salvador and Honduras as humanitarians on a mission.
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 Travellers want a tourism industry that is more eco-consciousNot so long ago, your main environmentally friendly option on vacation involved leaving hotel towels on the bathroom rack so they would be reused instead of being thrown in the wash after a single use.
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 Diver finds paradise on Honduran islandWhen travelling in Central America, one invariably finds oneself confronted by Jesus.
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 Panama cruise, more than the canalOn a Thursday in November, I passed through the Panama Canal aboard a huge cruise ship along with my wife, Linda, nearly 2,000 other passengers and a crew of 982. It was the high point of a two-week cruise that began in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and would end in Los Angeles 4,253 nautical miles later.
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 Paradise foundBit by the travel bug, but with only a small cash flow, I decided to take a short trip to Latin America. When I announced this vague plan to a travel agent, she skeptically looked me up and down.
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 Foraging in the wildsA new epicurean adventure offered by eco-adventure lodge Playa Nicuesa in Costa Rica, has guests foraging for exotic edibles from the tropical jungle and lodge gardens.
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 Panama's natural sideEven those prone to carsickness said the hour-and-a-half journey on a twisting road slicing through jungle to Chagres National Park was worth it.
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 My own private NicaraguaMost visitors to Nicaragua head for southern San Juan del Sur where broiling beaches and pounding surf attract hordes of SUVs and condo developments. Others traverse the Le
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 Life's A Beach In BelizeNestled in the Caribbean, Belize's barrier reef, the second-largest in the world, and Mayan ruins are drawing tourists and property buyers. A growing eco-tourism sector and an English-speaking populace add to the attraction.
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 Roatan: On the edge of discoveryDino Silvestri, 32, is chef and owner of Bida Restaurant & Bar on Roatan -- an island in the western Caribbean. He was born on mainland Honduras and raised on Roatan, the largest Honduran Bay island.
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 Seclusion. Stay on your own desert islandI hadn't seen my girlfriend in two months, not since she began a four-month backpacking trip through Central America. What better place to reunite, we thought, than on our own tropical island in the Caribbean? I flew into La Ceiba, Honduras, where I met my girlfriend, who travelled to La Cieba via Guatemala. From this sleepy city we took a one-hour ferry out to the island of Utila, known among backpackers for the cheapest scuba diving on the continent. There, we were picked up by an affable, laid-back gentleman with a lilting Creole accent who would take us to Sandy Cay island.
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 Chichi's market alive with Mayan treasuresChichicastenango translates to "place of the nettles" but a more apt description would be "place of the bargains."
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 Reborn in ancient Mayan ceremonyThe narrow road through the tangle of jungle was lit only by our van headlights. I, along with six other Mayan-culture enthusiasts and our guide Claudia, were on our way to the Mayan village of Dos Palmas to take part in a sacred Temazcal (sweat-lodge) ceremony -- to be reborn as warriors.
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 Learn to surf in Costa RicaRise before the sun and slip into your shorts. Down a cup of steaming hot coffee. Grab a board from the rack and hit the road.
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 A trip to Panama is a trip to bird paradiseWhen it comes to birding, I am convinced that I get more thrills from showing a new bird to a novice bird-watcher than seeing one the first time myself.
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 Rainforest adventure in Costa Rica not for the squeamishIt sounds as though a band of banshees is whooping it up outside our door. No longer are the distinctive, ghostly roars of the howler monkeys coming from deep in the rainforest, they are right outside our cabin. We lie in bed, beneath our bug net, grateful we'd decided to pull the louvred doors closed the night before, after awakening that day to small animal droppings strewn across our floor.
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 Eco-tourism leaves print in Costa RicaOn my first day in Costa Rica, a woman in San Jose explained to me why bus rides in outlying areas can sometimes take four hours to cover 40 kilometres.
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