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Panama : Bocas Del Toro

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:July 12, 2025
Post category:Central America 🌎Panama 🇵🇦

🇵🇦 🇵🇦 🇵🇦 Bocas Del Toro borders the the Carribean sea to the north. It consistes on mainland and 9 main islands. I flew in the morning to Bocus Town Isla Colon from Panama city. Its a small island , though my hotel was walkable , there were minibuses which provides shared transfer. I availed one of those and reached my hotel Barrbra B&B over sea. My first day was bit of wash out. It was raining really heavily and I could not really do much except walking around , visiting Bocus…

Panama : Panama City , Canal and San Blas

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:July 12, 2025
Post category:Central America 🌎Panama 🇵🇦

🇵🇦 🇵🇦 🇵🇦 Panama is the link between Central America and South America, constituting an isthmus of 80 km. wide in its narrower section. I flew from Guatemala City and it's a complete change of surroundings. Unlike Guatemala city , this is a city of sku scrappers. Buildings of all sizes , shapes and forms everywhere. I arrived my hotel in the afternoon . It's pretty much my easy day to walk around and explore parts by foot. Uber is easily available here , so took a Uber to visit the central…

Guatemala : Tikal and Flores

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:July 9, 2025
Post category:Central America 🌎Guatemala 🇬🇹

🇬🇹 🇬🇹 🇬🇹 Guatemala is not complete without visiting Tikal and Flores. After doing Semuc Champey, next morning I took a bus (minivan) from Lanquín to Flores. Flores is the gateway to the Petén, Guatemala’s vast northern rainforest region, because it’s the main transport hub. I reached Flores late afternoon. Isla de Flores is a cute, colourful area clustered onto a small island in Lake Petén Itza, and connected to the mainland via a short causeway. It's a small walkable island . I reached late afternoon . Due to my luggage ,…

Cappadocia: Goreme hot air balloon flight

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:July 5, 2025
Post category:Desert Landscape travel Turkey 🇹🇷

🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 This is stunning, once in a lifetime experience. The offers a unique vantage point to see Cappadocia's beautiful rock formations, cave dwellings, fairy chimneys, and more. We were picked up around 3.30 in the morning from Foremanson cave hotel. Pick up frrom all the hotels took time and then we were on our way to a field about 5ish where baloons are getting ready. The basket itself is splitted to small cubicle which gives some seperation though its pretty crowded . On the way we were given a light…

Meghalaya

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:April 25, 2025
Post category:Asia 🌏India 🇮🇳

🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 Day 1 I started from Kaziranga around 12 . Today it was mostly about 300 km drive to the hotel to Shilong. On the way I stopped at Anurag dhaba . Food was amazing , it was traditional Asamia lunch. I reached Shilong in the evening . Rolling hills around Shilong reminiscent of Scotland hence it is known as "Scotland of East". I stayed overnight at Hotel Janeira Day 2 After waking up , I had a bit of morning walk and also had to get some cash out.…

Assam: Guwahati and Kaziranga

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:April 3, 2025
Post category:Asia 🌏India 🇮🇳travel

🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 I flew to Guwahati and worked for few days. Guwahati is often called "City of Temples" due to the prsence on numerous ancient and revered temples. Most famous of them is Kamakhya temple . This temple, dedicated to the goddess Kamakhya, is a major Shakti Peetha and a major pilgrimage site, attracting devotees from all over the country. The ancient name of Guwahati was Pragjyotishpur, also hints at its significance as a place of ancient worship, meaning "the light of the East". Day 1 Kamkha temple I left the…

Guatemala : Semuc Champey and Kanba Caves

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:February 5, 2025
Post category:Central America 🌎Guatemala 🇬🇹

🇬🇹 🇬🇹 🇬🇹 After successfully summiting 5 volcanoes , my next stop was Semuc Champey. This is a natural 300 m limestone bridge, under which passes the Cahabón River. Atop the bridge is a series of stepped, turquoise pools. I woke up in the morning , had my breakfast and then bus arrived for pick up to Lanquín. This is a long bus ride of 8 hrs from Antigua via Guatemala City . There is a tourist bus stop at Lanquín. Transpiration from various hotels come there to pick up tourists. Next…

Guatemala : Climbing 5 Volcanoes

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:January 26, 2025
Post category:Central America Guatemala 🇬🇹travel

🇬🇹 🇬🇹 🇬🇹 I arrived a day before. Today I changed the hotel and explored this lovely city of Antigua. From the next day its time to start gruelling back to bacl volcano climbs. Day 2 Hike Pacaya Volcano and Cerro Grande (2561m) In the morning I got straight to the task at hand: volcano trekking! I was driven to the trailhead of Pacaya National Park, laced up my hiking boots and hit the trail for what is an ideal acclimatisation trek. The route weaves first through steep dense forests and green…

Guatemala : Antigua and Guatemala City

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:January 18, 2025
Post category:Central America 🌎Guatemala 🇬🇹travel

🇬🇹 🇬🇹 🇬🇹 Antigua My month long trip to Guatemala and Panama started with Antigua. My midnight flight of United Air from Houston arrived sharp 12 and my transport to Antigua was waiting outside airport. Faced no issues in airport and then zipped to Antigua in no time. After a restful sleep , it was time to explore the the city. Situated in an area prone to frequent volcanic eruptions and earthquake , the city has been destroyed and rebuilt many times. It was also the former capital of Guatemala. This city…

Iceland: Reykjavík

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:November 17, 2024
Post category:Europe 🌍Iceland 🇮🇸

🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇮🇸 Reykjavík is the capital city of and also the largest city in Iceland. Amazing city in its own rights , it is also known as City of museums . Apart from usual museums you would expect in a regular European capital City, it has Phallological (Penis) Museum and Perlan museum. My time was very limited in the capital city . I stayed in Dalur YHA . located neighbourhood of Laugardalur. I went for Laugardalslaug pool next door which is the largest in Reykjavik with two 50m swimming pools, slides,…