by Matthew Allison | Jan 22, 2021 | Central America
Spending the Night Next to a 12,000′ Erupting Volcano During my travels, I have become obsessed with volcanoes and have been fortunate to visit dozens around the world, including those in Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nicaragua, Vanuatu,...
by Matthew Allison | Jan 14, 2021 | Central America
January 2021: Nicaragua was one of my first international trips. I first went there when I was a 19 year old college student. My friend and I went to western Nicaragua as part of a church related humanitarian trip to assist doctors and dentists with their medical...
by Matthew Allison | Jan 1, 2021 | Central America
Walking Among Bones of Human Sacrifices in the Caves of the Mayan Underworld January 2021: Belize is more than its famous cayes and world-class diving—its jungles hide ancient Mayan ruins and vast cave networks. Most Mayan cities in western Belize were built near...
by Matthew Allison | Feb 9, 2014 | Central America
About Las Mosquitia February 2014: The La Mosquitia region of Honduras is the largest rainforest in the Americas north of the Amazon. It is a largely roadless area of indigenous people, rare wildlife populations mostly extinct elsewhere and lost Mayan cities, many...
by Matthew Allison | Dec 3, 2008 | Central America
Darien Gap December 2008/January 2009: Few places in the world are as mysterious and alluring as the dense, foreboding jungles of the Darién Gap. This is a wilderness so deep, mountainous, and hostile that it remains the only break in the Pan-American Highway, which...
by Matthew Allison | Mar 1, 2007 | Central America
March 2007: My main reason for visiting El Salvador was to surf its amazing, uncrowded waves. However, I was also curious about the country itself—known for its history of gang violence, particularly MS-13, and a dark past of civil war that claimed thousands of...
