Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua |
What is the Chicken Bus? For international backpackers, the term, “chicken bus” is synonymous with Central America. During six months of traveling through the region, I even heard a few locals use the term. Structurally they are former yellow school buses from the...
Central America, Guatemala |
Flores, Guatemala to Tikal Most tourists run in and out of Flores, Guatemala, an Island-town located in the northeastern Guatemalan state, El Petén. That they go from Flores, Guatemala to Tikal directly is respectable. No judgment here. (Though I’m going to make a...
Central America, El Salvador, Food and Drink |
Stuffed Corn-Masa Cakes El Salvador is synonymous with pupusas, the lightly-charred, corn-masa cakes filled with soft, savory ingredients. In appearance, they’re similar to the Mexican gordita, the Venezuelan arape and the Guatemalan doblado. With the exception...
Central America, El Salvador, Food and Drink |
What is Nixtamalization? I wasn’t familiar with the term until I became curious about pupusas and wondered how the corn differed from the tortillas and tamales of Mexico and Central America. It doesn’t. They’re made with masa harina corn flour or...
Central America, Guatemala, Mexico |
“Ay, es que estamos en la cabañuela de January.” / “Oh, we’re in January’s cabañuela.” If you grew up in the Latin American countryside your grandparents may have said this. This city mouse heard the term, “Las Cabañuelas” or Cabanuelas in English for the first time...
Central America, Nicaragua |
For our Nicaragua volcano hike we chose Volcán Maderas (Maderas Volcano), a dormant volcano with a rare cloud forest. It’s the smallest of two volcanoes that make up the hourglass-shaped volcano island, Isla de Ometepe in Lake Nicaragua. The volcanoes are...