CRAW Region #1, Country #5: Nicaragua Your entry into Nicaraugua is something special. You depart Guasaule, Honduras and cross Rio Guasaule into Guasaule Nicaraugua. Your Nicarauguan tour will be one of the most scenic of the trip so far. You can breathe a sigh of relief, as Nicaraugua is the Read more…
When you think of the stereotype of a banana republic, you are thinking about El Salvador. Before the Spanish Conquest present-day El Salvador was in the territories of three different indigenous states along with several principalities. Map by Juan Migue showing the political makeup of Central America at the time Read more…
CRAW Region #1, Country #2: Guatemala Entering Guatemala from the Mexican state of Chiappas, we are finally in the heart of Maya country. So often we think of the succession of MesoAmerican cultures as almost monolithic. The Olmec, Toltec, Maya, Aztec, etc. as if they held sway over the entirety Read more…