Santa Elena

Best travel reports from Santa Elena

Uxmal, Kakao and Ticul

24.7. Saturday Today morning, we take it easy and read this on the beach. We skip breakfast, as we want to make up for the fish restaurant we missed yesterday. Oh, and it's...

Entry to Guatemala

Since it is not possible to enter Guatemala from Palenque by public transportation, we booked a tour for 600 pesos (about 30 euros) per person. The driver arrives at our...

Guatemala / Flores, incredibly good! 🇬🇹

I can already tell upon arrival, even though it's dark, that I don't have enough time here. On the way here, we added another great person to our group, so we are traveling as...

Costa Rica - Santa Elena

Let's go to Santa Elena near Monteverde. Actually not a long distance from Liberia. According to Google, it's about a 3-hour drive by car, but we didn't know at that time that...

Hello Autobahncampingplätze!

On our way to Madrid, we stop for two nights. Our first night at a campsite near Burgos, right next to the highway. Unremarkable place with a large iron gate behind a...

Flores Part 2: On the other side of the lake

Since Belize is very expensive and we want to speak Spanish again, we are going back to Guatemala and staying one more night in Flores. Since we don't want to go back to...

Flores Part 1: Lost Keys and Kayaking

Unfortunately, the day didn't start off so well. While swimming at the lake, where we only had our towel with us, our key was stolen. We contacted Oliver, our host, through the...

... was für ein Ritt ...

Früh haben wir Abschied von La Fortuna genommen. Für einen Weg von Luftlinie ca. 30 km hat unser Navi schmale 4 h Fahrt veranschlagt. Es gibt keine direkte Verbindung, da mal...

Monteverde

The dense Monteverde cloud forest is found in the higher regions of Costa Rica and the journey there is via a very bumpy, unpaved road. The last 30 kilometers of the drive to...

Monteverde

The next day we continued with the shuttle to Santa Elena. On the way, we made a stop at the Crocodile Bridge, where you can see crocodiles, as the name suggests. Only in...

Drive to the Mediterranean

Yesterday, on September 30, 2019, we drove about 400 km inland in Spain. We will stay at the Santa Elena campsite today because we really like it. Finally, there is free...