Panama is renowned for its canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but it is also host to magnificent natural scenery, including virgin rainforest. Nicaragua's emerging highlights include vast Lake Nicaragua and its islands, and the region's oldest colonial city?Granada. Honduras is a rural country of succulent tropical fruits, Caribbean islands with white coral beaches, a cool mountain interior and impressive Mayan ruins. Tourism is in its infancy in tiny El Salvador, but there is a lot of potential there with friendly people and a landscape of volcanoes, lagoons and hill-trekking country, with great surf beaches on the craggy coastline. A visit combines well with the adjacent countries.42

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