Thursday, April 9, 2009

Top Ten Caribbean/Central America

1. San Juan (Puerto Rico): This city is all sorts of fucking awesome. Unbelievably beautiful women, stunning architecture, great ambience. Possibly my favourite place I have been.

2. Monteverde/Santa Elena (Costa Rica): This place was just awesome. Stunning jaw dropping scenery all the way down to the coast, abundant wildlife, so much greenery and great cloud forests)

3. Panajachel (Guatemala): Yes its touristy, yes the town itself is not that amazing, but man that lake is so beautiful.

4. Sambu/Quina (Panama): Playing football with the native kids, meeting the most genuinely nice people we met all trip and hiking and boating into the middle of the unknown. One of the collest things I have ever done.

5. San Salvador (El Salvador): The best of the big cities and the best of the capitals. More western than most, cosmopolitan and the people are so nice they never try to seel you anything. The El Salvadoreans are definitely the nicest Central Americans.

6. Apaneca/Juayua (El Salvador): Brilliant mountain towns, with great hiking and again those El Salvadoreans mean the country creeps up on you slowly.

7. Grenada (Nicaragua): Its not as good as Guanajuato, its a little too clean cut, but its by far the best colonial town in Central America (Don't listen to those who back Antigua or Leon)

8. Las Terrenas (Dominican Republic): Could have been Cabarete with the windsurfing, could have gone to Cap Haitian, but this place is chilled with good bars, but most importantly the most awesome French cuisine anywhere. A slice of France on the Caribbean beachside.

9. Panama City (Panama): Parts of it piss me off. I missed its best bits, but there is no arguing it is pretty, its unique and it has by miles the best nightlife in Central America.

10. Copan Ruians (Honduras): This country does not deserve a city in the top ten, but Copan Ruinas is a beautiful little colonial town. Much more so than Gracias supposedly is.

No comments: