Travel To Central America: A Cradle Of Early Civilization

This fascinating destination of the Americas had beenalso provides highly fertile soil for agriculture
cultivated by thriving agrarian cultures for 3,000 yearsnecessary to sustain the incredibly dense populations
before Europe's arrival in the New World. Thein urban centers like San Salvador. Costa Rica attracts
modern existence of more than eight ancient culturesadventure-seekers from all corners of the world to
can still be found today and a triumphantits thrilling white water rapids and mystic cloud
preservation movement of these indigenous people isforests, while the truly daring are drawn to
underway. Central America offers mesmerizing insightNicaragua's smoking and belching Santiago Crater,
into the beauty of life and tradition that hastucked between two active volcanoes in Volcán
sustained centuries of repression, shifting politicalMasaya National Park.
alliances and some of nature's mightiest forces.Central America is also teeming with vivacious urban
Bordered by the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacificlife. San Jose, Costa Rica's capital city, is one of the
Ocean, the Central American isthmus is a narrowmost modern and international cities in the region,
tropical and volcanic landmass that connects Mexicanblessed with more years of peace than many Central
North America to the northwestern lowlands ofAmerican cities have experienced in recent decades.
South America. Early in the 19th century, this regionBars and Nightclubs are packed every night of the
was known as The United States of Central Americaweek and booming commercialism, museums and
but today is comprised of the seven independentgourmet restaurants seem to momentarily erase the
nations of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador,less affluent reality in the background. To the south,
Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.Panama City is also a vibrant and expansive
Relax, Explore and Discovermetropolis spawned from the commerce generated
The most spectacular Mayan ruins can be found inby the adjacent Panama Canal.
Guatemala at Tikal, a ceremonial center of pyramids,Travel to Central America to come face to face with
plazas and museums tucked beneath a thick anda collection of cultures and lifestyles more diverse
enchanting rainforest canopy. Belize provides theand complex than you had ever imagined. Explore the
traveler with a slower pace along its white sanddiverging histories of a region bound by a common
Caribbean coastline dotted with world class reefs forpast and struggling to achieve a prosperous future.
the passionate scuba diver. The entire landmass is aThe possibilities are endless in Central America.
geographic wonder of active volcanic chains, which