Overlanding Central America is a bit of an adventure. Not quite the vast wilderness of South America, but it has its moments. We hopped the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama, then got off to a cracking start ticking-off one of our long-standing bucket-list items: helping crew a yacht sailing through the Panama Canal. Next we did some panning for gold and saw a bit of wildlife in Costa Rica, but then we had a weeny snaggette getting through the Nicaraguan ‘revolution’. Having to dashing through Nicaragua on a ‘truce day’ in the troubles, meant that we didn’t see much of it. But the fabulous-ness of the much under-visited El Salvador made up for it. Honduras was just ‘nice’, Guatemala lived up to its mega-reputation and Belize packed a big (but slightly pricey) punch for such a little country. Click on the links below for each country:

	Panama Sailing the Panama Canal, hopping the Darien Gap…
	Costa Rica Here we found extraordinary wildlife, nature… and tourism
	Nicaragua Here we got our timing a bit wrong. A bad time to cross Nicaragua… but we made it!
	El Salvador Trailing a very close third, behind the legendary Brazil and Colombia for friendliness.
	Honduras El Salvador is a hard act for Honduras to follow. Honduras is nice. Not amazing… just ‘nice’. Here’s why…
	Guatemala Guatemala is a land of culture. In fact it’s a land of lots of things. So much to see and do there…
	Belize Belize is compact, but there’s still room to explore. Especially underwater… unbeatable world-class snorkelling!
	Central America Route Map After the distances we drove in South America, nothing is very far away in Central America.Click on the link above for the interactive zoomy/click map
	Shipping to Central America – Around the Darien Gap It’s such a short distance between Colombia and Panama, but you can’t drive it. Here’s how we got around the Darien Gap…
	Central America Photo Gallery Such a photogenic place and so hard to pick a selection of the (literally) thousands that we took!
	Overlanding Costs: Africa -v- The Americas Details and comparisons of our camping, food and fuel costs overlanding across Africa, South America and Central America

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