The race to the Guajira Peninsula is under way. The teams can choose to travel through Guatemala, southern Belize or Honduras to reach the second checkpoint of El Zonte in El Salvador.

The teams travel through the breathtaking beauty of Costa Rica, a country that contains five per cent of the world's biodiversity, before reaching Panama, the seventh country of the race.

The next checkpoint is Bocas del Toro, an archipelago off Panama's Caribbean coast.