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    Planet Kapow 33 : La Fortuna to Panama City

    A TAXI: to the border, an eventless crossing, and here we are. Costa Rica! Now a series of buses – to Liberia, to Cañas, to Tilarán, where there are no more buses and a taxi driver hauls us the rest of the way to La...

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    Planet Kapow 32 : Masaya to San Juan del Sur

    TENSIONS RISE: and drop away constantly within the group; we’re only four, after all, and we’ve been traveling a long time together – seven months, now, for Adam and I, five for the girls. And while traveling alongside three of your best friends can be...

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    Planet Kapow 31 : Mombacho Volcano to Big Corn Island

    MANAGUA IS: full of ugly steel sculptures draped in coloured fairy lights. We drive around in the dark, attempting unsuccessfully to procure tickets for the odyssey that awaits us. Nicaragua’s capital is an unpleasant city in a region infamous for unpleasant cities; driving around in...

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    Planet Kapow 27 : Antigua to San Salvador

    IN ANOTHER: little town on Lake Atitlan named Santiago de Atitlan, we find our way up a gravelly path to the shrine of Maximon, the infamous ‘Wicked Saint’, patron of drinkers, smokers, gamblers and prostitutes. Each year at Easter in towns across Guatemala, Maximon does...

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    Planet Kapow 15 : Morelia to Paricutin

    AND OUT: of the asphyxiating behemoth of Mexico City, through the murky endless ocean of white houses, out, out, until we hit the long green fields and lakes of Michoacan state, heading into Morelia, readying ourselves for Dia de Muertos. The Day of the Dead...

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    Planet Kapow 07 : Tepic to Huajumar

    AND THAT’S: when it all started to turn around. Up out of San Blas, still scratching at our thousands of mosquito bites, bathing ourselves in the anti-itch cream we’d bought at the chemist and which did precisely nothing to help us, we headed back to...

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