Beginning his journey on the San Juan River, Stephen Fry goes tarpon fishing with Dan Wise, a retired lawyer from Mississippi, who cites that Costa Rica is the Switzerland of Central America.
Stephen Fry starts his journey on the Sante Bridge, an important transit point for the drug cartels and considered one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico.
Stephen Fry tries his hand at surfing, meets a real life Sweeney Todd, tastes a new breed of bananas, meets multimillionaire Sandinista revolutionaries, and finally learns to dance the Maypole.
Stephen Fry heads to Turneffe, one of the remotest caves, to meet a latter day Robinson Crusoe who's found a lifestyle rehab from his drug addiction on Turneffe, the remotest of all the coral atolls.