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Ultimate Central America (28 destinations)

58 days
From Mexico City to Panama City
2.0
1 traveler review
Ultimate Central America (28 destinations) - Intrepid Travel
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Tour Operator:
Intrepid Travel
Max group size:
16
Age range:
15 to 99
Operated in:
English
Tour id:
267560
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Highlights

  • Explore Mexico City's historic Zocalo
  • Taste tacos on a Mexico City crawl
  • Discover ancient Maya ruins in Palenque
  • Swim in the Agua Azul cascades
  • Snorkel near the Belize Barrier Reef

Itinerary

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  1. Introduction
  1. Day 1 Mexico City
  2. Day 2 Mexico City
  3. Day 3 Puebla
  4. Day 4 Puebla
  5. Day 5 Oaxaca
  6. Day 6 Oaxaca
  7. Day 7 Tehuantepec
  8. Day 8 San Cristobal de las Casas
  9. Day 9 San Cristobal de las Casas
  10. Day 10 Palenque
  11. Day 11 Palenque
  12. Day 12 Merida
  13. Day 13 Merida
  14. Day 14 Chichen Itza / Playa del Carmen
  15. Day 15 Playa del Carmen
  16. Day 16 Playa del Carmen
  17. Day 17 Chetumal
  18. Day 18 Caye Caulker
  19. Day 19 Caye Caulker
  20. Day 20 Caye Caulker
  21. Day 21 San Ignacio
  22. Day 22 San Ignacio
  23. Day 23 Tikal National Park
  24. Day 24 Rio Dulce
  25. Day 25 Rio Dulce
  26. Day 26 Antigua
  27. Day 27 Panajachel
  28. Day 28 San Juan La Laguna
  29. Day 29 Antigua
  30. Day 30 Antigua
  31. Day 31 Antigua
  32. Day 32 Copan
  33. Day 33 Copan
  34. Day 34 Suchitoto
  35. Day 35 Suchitoto
  36. Day 36 El Cuco
  37. Day 37 El Cuco
  38. Day 38 El Cuco to Leon via Honduras
  39. Day 39 Leon
  40. Day 40 Granada
  41. Day 41 Granada
  42. Day 42 Monteverde
  43. Day 43 Monteverde
  44. Day 44 La Fortuna
  45. Day 45 La Fortuna
  46. Day 46 San Jose
  47. Day 47 San Jose 
  48. Day 48 Sarapiqui
  49. Day 49 Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
  50. Day 50 Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
  51. Day 51 Bocas del Toro
  52. Day 52 Bocas del Toro
  53. Day 53 Bocas del Toro
  54. Day 54 Boquete
  55. Day 55 Boquete
  56. Day 56 Chitre
  57. Day 57 Panama City
  58. Day 58 Panama City
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What's Included

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  • Accommodation
  • Guide
  • Meals
  • Additional Services
  • Transport

What's Not Included

  • Flights
  • Insurance
  • Optional
  • Additional Services

Where You'll Stay

All accommodations are subject to change

Operated by

Intrepid Travel

Number of tours

1,297

Age Range

5 to 99 years old

Response time

5 hours

Response rate

88%

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Customer Reviews

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    · November 6th, 2015
    We took this tour because we felt it may be difficult to travel independently and safely through Central America. Intrepid promised a real experience - local transport, trips to local restaurants and interaction with locals. This tour was split between two guides Edwin and Rafa. Rafa was always pressurizing the group to take expensive transport and tour upgrades with little alternative. Also taking the group to expensive restaurants and recommending no alternatives. He was also poor with information and badly organised. Edwin though very nice and generally very helpful was flawed as a guide. He gave a huge amount of repetitive information - every travel day after a long tiring journey Edwin would arrive at the hotel sit everyone in the lobby and talk for about an hour giving often unnecessary information on locations when all people wanted to do was get to their rooms - he would deliberately withold wifi passwords and room keys so we would be forced to listen to him speak. When challenged on this he became difficult to deal with and ignored concerns. Edwin spent 80-100 hours repeating the same information over and over and even explained in detail how to use a traffic light to cross the road. In the whole tour one day was spent at a local village. Only one day was spent on genuine local transport and the guides took us to extremely expensive tourist restaurants with low quality and certainly not local food. So the genuine local experience was pretty much non existent. Nearly all the transport was private - minibus, not particularly comfortable and a constant pressure from guides to tip drivers at the end of each journey. Being private transport we were disapointed not to stop and look at the amazing scenery - there was one stop on the entire trip for a photo opportunity, despite requests to our guides. The majority of trip felt more like a beach holiday as much of the time was spent on beach resorts. We were sold one trip by Intrepid this effectively four separate trips aimed at people on short holidays not people travelling for 60 days. The disjointed nature of the trip while waiting for new people to join wastes time and as the guides are constantly catering for new people makes for a very repetitive where you constantly go to beaches and places areas you would not normally do on a single trip. We were delighted to leave the trip in Panama and believe this was the feeling of many people that travelled with us. The amalgamation of various tour companies to the one Intrepid company led to a total mismatch ages from 18-65 causing friction in the group. This made it hard for the guides. On a positive note the accomodation was in the most part really good as on all intrepid tours, I would recommend some of Intrepids individual tours - but not a long one and not the Honduras/Nicaragua/Costa Rica.
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    Trip date: April 2015

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Ultimate Central America (28 destinations)
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  • Currencies
    BZ$
    Belize Dollar
    Belize
    Costa Rican Colon
    Costa Rica
    SVC
    El Salvador Colon
    El Salvador
    Q
    Quetzal
    Guatemala
    $
    Mexican Peso
    Mexico
    C$
    Cordoba Oro
    Nicaragua
    B/.
    Balboa
    Panama
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    As a traveller from USA, Canada you will need an adaptor for types G, I. As a traveller from England you will need an adaptor for types A, B, I. As a traveller from Australia, New Zealand you will need an adaptor for types A, B, G. As a traveller from South Africa you will need an adaptor for types A, B, G, I.

    Type A
    Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama
    Type B
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    Guatemala
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    • Typhoid - Recommended for Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama. Ideally 2 weeks before travel.
    • Hepatitis A - Recommended for Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama. Ideally 2 weeks before travel.
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