Top 9 Caribbean Mainland Destinations for Adventurers
1. Costa Rica - Caribbean Coast (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
This is the Carribean Coast chapter from Lonely Planet’s Costa Rica guidebook.
2. Nicaragua - Caribbean Coast (Chapter) Lonely Planet
The Caribbean coast includes wide, muddy rivers surrounded by thick jungle, a tropical port town and mangrove shrouded black water home to more than a dozen ethnic fishing enclaves. And then there’s the pristine offshore islands ringed by white sand with a turquoise trim.
3. Cancun, Cozumel & the Yucatan - Costa Maya & Southern Caribbean Coast (PDF Chapter)
If you’re looking for a quiet escape on the Mexican Caribbean, this is the best place to be. Laguna Bacalar - the ‘lake of seven colors’ - provides mesmerizing scenery, whuile the tranquil fishing towns of Mahahual and Xcalak offer great beach-bumming, birding and diving opportunities along a pristine stretch of coast.
4. Guatemala - Central & Eastern Guatemala (Chapter) Lonely Planet
Stretching from steamy lowland forests to the dry tropics of the Río Motagua valley, and from the edge of the western highlands to the Caribbean Sea, this is Guatemala’s most diverse region. You’ll encounter wonderfully preserved ruins, lush mountainous areas and limestone crags.
5. Belize travel guide (PDF) Lonely Planet
With one foot in Central America and the other dipped in the Caribbean Sea, Belize is home to the second-longest barrier reef in the world, jungles that teem with wildlife, and mysterious Mayan ruins.
6. Panama - Colon Province (Chapter) Lonely Planet
There is more to this Caribbean province than its downtrodden capital. Think pristine beaches and lowland rainforests, colonial splendors and modern engineering marvels. Portobelo, with its growing music and art scene, shows the best of vibrant Congo culture.
7. Colombia - Caribbean Coast (PDF Chapters)
Sun-soaked and stewed in culture, Colombia’s 1760km of Caribbean coastline covers a range of ecosystems, from the dense jungles of Darién Gap on the border with Panama in the southwest, to the barren desert of La Guajira near Venezuela in the northeast.
8. Guyana - New Lonely Planet: South America on a Shoestring
Find authentic raw adventure in Guyana, which is becoming one of South America’s premier ecotourism destinations. Georgetown, the crumbling colonial capital, is distinctly Caribbean with a rocking nightlife and great places to eat. The interior is more Amazonian with its Amerindian communities and unparalleled wildlife-viewing.
9. Honduras - Central America on a shoestring (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet
Despite the bad rep, the vast majority of travelers to Honduras love their time here. It’s superb value for money and loaded with attractions, from the fabled Bay Islands and magical Maya ruins of Copán to the wildlife-rich Moskitia jungles.
10. Caribbean Islands travel guide (PDF) Lonely Planet
With amazing culture, beaches, activities and weather - not to mention the rum - the Caribbean is a joyous riot of islands offering the ultimate escape.
Carnival Expressby Simon Raven & Chris Raven
Overland travel writers, Chris Raven and Simon Raven, embark on a new comedy adventure that leads them to the wild and colourful continent of South America. From bull's testicles in Buenos Aires to bums and boobs on the beaches of Brazil, the Raven brothers put their dream plans into action and traverse the Trans-oceanic highway from the Pacific to the Atlantic Coast of South America.