Panama la Vieja contains the remains of the original 1519 foundation. Panama City, PanamaĬentral America’s most beguiling capital, Panama City, is actually three - or even more - cities rolled into one. The road trip north to Ensenada is one of the world’s great drives, passing through colonial-era towns, whale-watching resorts, hillside vineyards and lots more beaches.īook a stay The San Felipe area of Panama City (Alamy) 11. Eighteen-suite Casa Natalia is a tranquil, refined retreat in San Jose’s historical quarter guests have their own hammocks and a small courtyard pool to share for the siesta hours. The beaches are beautiful, with manta rays and leaping dolphins on the ocean side and calmer, turquoise waters inside the Sea of Cortez. Once the southern extension of the better known California “Norte” of the USA, this long, skinny peninsula in north Mexico is famed for the bumping resort town of Cabo San Lucas and its more discreet neighbour, San Jose del Cabo, at the southern tip. San Jose del Cabo, Baja California (Getty Images) 1.
If you click and buy a product, we may earn revenue. These buttons and adverts are clearly signposted, and provide direct links through to external sites. We also feature properties and itineraries from a specially selected list of trusted operators. Our travel journalism is written and edited by independent experts to inform, inspire and advise our readers about the best choices for your holidays. Main photo: dancers in a Guelaguetza parade in Oaxaca, Mexico (Alamy) Costa Rica, which popularised zip-lining and canopy walks, claims to own adventure tourism, but there are luxuriant national parks and wildlife reserves across the region. There’s a dazzling biodiversity once you get out of the towns. Tortillas, tropical climates and echoes of the Spanish Main provide common bonds, though cocktails tend to switch from tequila to rum as you head south.įrom Guatemala to Panama, Central America packs a lot of cultural diversity into its ever narrowing isthmus, from the surviving Mayan cultures in the uplands around Lake Atitlan to the Afro-indigenous Garifuna of Belize and Honduras to the Americanised lifestyles of Panama City. But Mexico has more in common - linguistically, historically, spiritually - with its smaller neighbours. It’s also in North America, according to geographers. Mexico is mesmerising, multifaceted and massive - driving from Baja California to Cancun could take a week and you’d still have missed most of the country.
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