Destination: Central America
Video: Surfing One of the Longest Waves in the World
by Jim Benning | 07.11.11 | 1:59 PM ET
Waterman extraordinaire Robby Naish, perhaps best known as one of the globe’s best windsurfers, surfs one of the longest waves in the world at Pavones, Costa Rica.
(Via Adventure Journal)
Listen to This: Aurelio Martinez and Mayahuaba’
by Jim Benning | 06.28.11 | 10:49 AM ET
Aurelio is a Honduran musician and member of the Garifuna community. This song is from his new album, Laru Beya. It makes me happy.
Cross-posted from JimBenning.Net.
World Travel Watch: Traffic Restrictions in Italy, Conflict on the Thai-Burmese Border and More
by Larry Habegger | 11.10.10 | 1:29 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
World Travel Watch: G20 Alert in Seoul, Volcano in Indonesia and More
by Larry Habegger | 11.03.10 | 3:14 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
World Travel Watch: Cholera Outbreak in Haiti, Tsunami in Indonesia and More
by Larry Habegger | 10.27.10 | 12:38 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
Lightning Flashes in El Salvador
by Tracy L. Barnett | 10.27.10 | 10:02 AM ET
Tracy L. Barnett stepped off a bus, checked into a luxury resort and learned something about the indifferent forces of nature
World Travel Watch: Turmoil in Kashmir, Criminal Gangs in El Salvador and More
by Larry Habegger | 09.16.10 | 10:46 AM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
World Travel Watch: Mudslides in Guatemala, Bombing in Cancun and More
by Larry Habegger | 09.08.10 | 1:41 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
What Happens When CBS’ ‘Survivor’ Goes to Nicaragua?
by Jim Benning | 08.26.10 | 1:53 PM ET
For starters, the television company hypes the country’s “savage wildlife.”
A crew has been filming the next season of the hit TV show in the beach town of San Juan del Sur—it will debut on CBS next month.
Reports the Los Angeles Times:
Government officials apparently think “Survivor” could be good for foreign business investment and tourism, even though the CBS commercial for the show proclaims Nicaragua a land of “impenetrable terrain, smoldering volcanoes and savage wildlife.” (Savage wildlife? The mosquitoes?)
Yes, tourism to Nicaragua could skyrocket—and so could unfathomably horrific mosquito bites.
World Travel Watch: Dress Code in Vatican City, Taxi Kidnappings in Nicaragua and More
by Larry Habegger | 07.28.10 | 12:12 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
Square Grouper on the Cocaine Coast
by Jill K. Robinson | 07.28.10 | 10:09 AM ET
When Jill K. Robinson found her perfect beachfront property off Honduras, she didn't realize she'd just bought into a slice of the drug trade
World Travel Watch: Violence on Guatemala’s Buses, Tourist Police in the Philippines and More
by Larry Habegger | 07.21.10 | 12:35 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
World Travel Watch: New Trekking in Kashmir, Dengue in Venezuela and More
by Larry Habegger | 07.14.10 | 12:15 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
World Travel Watch: Striptease at Uluru, Ongoing Strikes in Greece and More
by Larry Habegger | 06.30.10 | 12:11 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
World Travel Watch: Volcanoes in Ecuador and Guatemala, Violence in Rome and More
by Larry Habegger | 06.09.10 | 12:29 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
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