March 4, 2019
After crossing the border between Panama and Costa Rica, we arrived in the capital of Costa Rica, San Jose, to spend a day and a half there and in the nearby national park featuring volcano Poas. Within this short time, we saw and learned about Costa Rica much more than expected because we were staying with couchsurfers, the locals. Here,…
September 23, 2018
Costa-Rica is one of the most popular Central American countries: it is very safe, and its infrastructure is very well-developed. Certain developments, however, have not quite reached it: for instance, the border and customs are quite chaotic, and to reach the Costa Rican border, one has to change transport several times. In this post, we share the experience of crossing…
February 12, 2017
We have just come back from six countries of Central America and want to share the main impressions from them. Undoubtedly, the countries are very different. Panama and Costa-Rica are quite rich, safe (this does not always apply to Panama) and expensive. El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are much more frightening and you must be careful travelling there, but these…