This photo is looking out the side of a cruise ship heading into the Panama Canal from the Caribbean side. The large engine that is guiding the ship is one of the [...]

Costa Rica’s capital San Jose has a lively nightlife. Most tourists naturally fall into the Tican groove: the Latin rhythms of Salsa, Merengue, and on the Caribbean coast, Soca, and the driving [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Matt Wall about traveling to and living in Honduras. Matt recommends the Bay Islands in the Caribbean for a beach resort vacation, scuba diving and snorkeling. The [...]

This photo shows a cruise ship going through the first set of locks on the Caribbean side of the Panama Canal. This ship is not one of the new monster size cruise [...]

My last out of country “vacation” was a service trip to the village of Las Delicias in El Salvador. This was also my first time traveling to a third world country. To [...]

This month on the Amateur Traveler facebook fan page I am having a photo contest with the theme “Shadows”. This picture “The Sounds of Silence” is from Skip Hunt (© 2010) Skip [...]

Visit Costa Rica with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows an eco tour traveling by bus, train and boat to the rain forrest north of Puerto Limon on the Caribbean coast. It [...]

Visit the Panama Canal with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows a bus and ferry tour of the Panama canal through to the Pacific side. This tour was part of a larger [...]

Visit the Panama Canal with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows entering into the Panama canal through the Gatun locks on the MS Volendam from Holland America. click here to download (mp4) [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Joshua Berman author of Moon Handbooks Nicaragua and Moon Living Abroad In Nicaragua about the “new Costa Rica” as some have called Nicaragua. Learn about the land [...]