Destination: Guatemala
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Fri, 23 Dec 2005 | By solbeam | Views [1759]
14.1, 3.1, 2.1
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12.5, 2.7, 2.0
“Oh my gosh, this one’s so little!” I put the slide rule down and, with two careful fingers, lift the little creature up. His width, as measured exactly to be 2.0 centimeters, is small enough ... Read more >
Tags: Animals
Tue, 19 Feb 2002 | By solbeam | Views [1648] | Comments [1]
In
Portland, Oregon, when given a piece of white construction paper and
finger paints, children will blob and smudge paintings of snow-capped
mountains topped with whipped-cream clouds and sprinkled with pine
trees. In San Diego, California, kids ... Read more >
Tags: mountains, volcano, guatemala
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 | By connieandjohn | Views [1376]
Tuesday is market day at San Miguel Totonicapán, a town at the end of the road in the mountains about 40 miles from Quetzaltenango. The market is packed with locals buying and selling locally made crafts: baskets pottery, leather goods and the colorful ... Read more >
Tags: Markets
Thu, 26 Nov 1998 | By simon_monk | Views [1013]
The peaks of the volcanos, cloaked in cloud and on fire from the dawn sun, glide past the windows of our plane. In my imaginations I had painted a land of jungle not volcanos large enough to greet you as you arrive by plane.
Being thrown back into ... Read more >
Tags: philosophy of travel, volcano, clouds, culture, death, mortality, children
Sun, 30 Sep 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [945]
After bussing it back to Antigua today, we are finally "home sweet home." We were able to get our homestay of choice, Marta Julia, who was recommended to us by our friend Karen who we met in Vietnam. We have our own private room with bathroom ... Read more >
Tags: Family
Wed, 21 Mar 2007 | By alyssa_schwartz | Views [929] | Comments [1]
It has been a lovely past few days spent at Caye Caulker, an island about 20 miles outside of Belize City. After leaving Orange Walk on Monday morning (with what felt like the entire population of the town on the bus with us) we were happily on our way ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 | By simon_monk | Views [872]
I was on the third tortilla when the world began to spin. I had just enough time to think "I'm going to throw up or pass out" so, not wanting to offend the lady at whose stall we were eating, I stood up. Gravity did the rest as my consciousness ... Read more >
Tags: food, doctors, hospitals & health, health, accidents, danger, travel insurance
Thu, 7 Jun 2007 | By anita | Views [814]
The current exchange rate is about 1 US Dollar = 7.79740 Guatemalan Quetzales, putting my 12Q chicken bus ride to from Guatemala City to Comalapa at just over $1.50. It is in these cheap, two hour time-frames that I remember so well why I love Guatemala.... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 | By alyssa_schwartz | Views [779] | Comments [5]
It´s been pretty hectic these past few days but I have free internet at this hostel so I figured I should take advantage. I´ll go back a few days to run through everything that has happened in Guatemala so far... Our stay in Flores was brief but it ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 7 Nov 2005 | By solbeam | Views [752]
Sometime in the last few months I picked up a new personal meal-prompted ritual. And it only slightly (and admittedly irrationally) bothers me that onlookers might presume I’m Christian (which I, although a fan of Jesus “the pilgrim,” am not) when I ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Tue, 6 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Views [743] | Comments [7]
Volcano Pacaya is an active volcano that is about 1.5 hours drive from Antigua, and for US$7 you get to go on a guided walk to the top. To us, this is an offer too good to refuse, so on Friday 2/02 Pete and I left Antigua for the 7 hour sunset tour ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 | By ghostofkrystenpast | Views [654] | Video
It was Monday afternoon that I forked over the cash (around $6 US) at the Barco travel agency for my bus ride and a guide to volcan Pacaya. I decided long before getting here, that climbing Pacaya would be something I had to do. I’d basically been looking ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sun, 7 Oct 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [580]
"Poke your walking sticks firmly into the hardened lava, and step carefully," says our guide, in Spanish, as he guides us across the hot, crisp, hardened lava fields. Black shards crackle under the weight of our feet. There's somebody's ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 | By henrique | Views [575] | Comments [1]
Um conhecido ditado entre os viajantes é de que quem faz a viagem são as pessoas que você encontra. Já chega até a ser um clichê, em todas as línguas, mas não deixa de ser verdade. A Guatemala foi um dos países que mais gostei. Não sei se foi ... Read more >
Sun, 7 Jan 2007 | By ghostofkrystenpast | Views [573] | Comments [3]
It all started last night when I got home from the bar and turned on the light in my room to find a gi-normous black bug scurrying across the floor. Obviously I found this to be quite disturbing and did not want to sleep with that thing in my room. ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
Thu, 31 May 2007 | By anita | Views [569]
As has been anticipated for a year now, I finally climbed Pacaya, the still-active volcano that promises visitors a good hike and a close adventure with lava. Our climb up was eventful with kids on horses calling "taxi, taxi" for those who ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sun, 11 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Views [568] | Comments [5]
For the past few days, we have been chilling out on the shores of Lake Atitlan. The lake is formed in a Calderra (collapsed volcanic cone)and it covers 128 sq/km and reaches depths of more the 320m. As we hit the top of the volcanic rim, we looked ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Views [547]
The only way to get to Livingstone is by boat down the Rio Dulce river. From Flores we got a bust tp Rio Dulce, where we got a lancha to take us down river to the fairly small village of Livingstone, on the small section of Carribean coast which is ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Views [532] | Comments [1]
We had a bit of an adventure getting to Flores, the place from which we planned to visit the ruins of Tikal in Guatemala´s north. When we were in Antigua, we booked ourselves a bus ticket from Antigua to Flores, we later realised that we would need to ... Read more >
Tags: I should have known better!
Wed, 19 Oct 2005 | By solbeam | Views [531] | Comments [1]
Like a child who has witnessed a tragedy beyond their vocabulary of comprehension, my mouth has been closed in silent surrender of the search for fitting words that don’t exist. For who am I to speak? In every country I travel to, and with every firsthand ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Mon, 17 Dec 2007 | By connieandjohn | Views [526]
Now we know why few people bring a car into Central America. Even before we reached the border between Mexico and Guatemala we picked up a guide. He and his son directed us to follow their motorcycle then handled our exit from Mexico and the ... Read more >
Tags: People
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 | By solbeam | Views [523]
-- As of 26, February 2002 -- # of Months on the Road = 11 # of Suspicious Skin Infections in 11 Mos. = 3 # of Digital Cameras Donated to the Guatemalan Black Market = 3 # of Persons reported in a Kidnapping for Ransom in the City Yesterday = 3 $$$ ... Read more >
Tags: solbeam, the stats, statistics, guatemala
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Views [519]
The primary reason for our visit to Flores, was to take a day trip to the ruins of Tikal. To us it was just a bonus that the village of Flores was so nice. It is a little penninula which just into Lake Peten Itza and which is connected to the mailand ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 | By amil_patel | Views [509]
We went for a trek up Volcan Santa Maria the other with my Spanish school in Xela. Santa Maria is a volcano with an altitude of 3768m above see level at the top and it was definitely one of the most impressive hikes that I´ve done. Santa Maria itself ... Read more >
Tags: trekking
Sat, 27 Oct 2007 | By laurahooker | Views [501] | Comments [7]
Okay, so day two completed . It turns out that I have free internet access at our new hostel, so I´m gonna blog as much as possible for the next few days. Don´t know what kind of access we will have once we leave antigua on sunday. yesterday turned ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
