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Trekking across the Cuchamantes Mountains

GUATEMALA | Tue, 6 Jan 2009 | By amil_patel | Views [360] | Comments [5]

I`ve just done a 3 day trek/journey across the Cuchamantes mountains between Nebaj and Todos Santos in the north of Guatemala. The majority of the trek is at around 3000m and the scenery is generally pretty impressive if it isn`t foggy. Day 1 ... Read more >

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Guatemala Week 3

GUATEMALA | Sat, 16 Jun 2007 | By nat_and_chris | Views [335] | Comments [3]

We planned to stay at Pablo’s house for our last week in Antigua and maybe continue with another week of school.   However on the Sunday night after watching a movie (Apocalypto – bit of Mel Gibson Mayan history, if you have seen the movie the fat ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

Crossing the Atlantic: Adios Espana, Hola Guatemala!

GUATEMALA | Thu, 13 Sep 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [314]

Up early, a last Starbuck's in hand, nearly now a memory from the developed world, and a last minute push to get an untested website up and running.  Despite heroic efforts all night and early morning, as Darrin reluctantly admitted, never launch untested ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

guatemala, a country of coincidences

GUATEMALA | Wed, 9 Apr 2008 | By ladyd | Views [236]

I honestly can´t believe I have been here in Guatemala for only two days. It feels like a lifetime ago that I left West 4th Street for LaGuardia. My time here so far has been split between the colonial city of Antigua and currently in what they call ... Read more >

A Spirit of Adventure

GUATEMALA | Mon, 23 Mar 2009 | By alleen | Views [176] | Comments [5]

I cannot believe that I have been here for two months now.   It has truly flown by.   I have learned so much.   Just today at lunch, the mother of the family I am staying with was telling some other students living here that when I came, we could ... Read more >

Flores

GUATEMALA | Tue, 9 Sep 2008 | By blue | Views [175]

Ok...6 hours later I arrived in Flores...not the worse for wear. We stopped for a cafeteria lunch...just like in Thailand! We also watched Kung Fu Panda and Star Wars Clones...in Spanish. Once here I hit a wall of heat. From one extreme to another! ... Read more >

Back to work...

GUATEMALA | Wed, 8 Sep 2010 | By kalamina | Views [129]

Semuc Champey was amazing!!! First of all we got to ride in the back of a pick-up truck to the caves, which was a lot of fun considering the road was bearly wide enough for 1 car let alone when you had to pass someone else. Then we had to traverse a waterfall ... Read more >

My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - My Big Adventure

GUATEMALA | Sun, 27 Mar 2011 | By alexcherry | Views [81]

We arrive at the cave in the early morning light and plunge into the darkness with ferocity. Bright eyes adjust to smoky candlelight, and nostrils to must and dirt and water. 
We are outside of Lanquin, a tiny tranquil and undulating ... Read more >

Tags: #2011writing, travel writing scholarship 2011

Photos: Guatemala

GUATEMALA | Fri, 4 Feb 2011 | By dschneider87888 | Photo Gallery

Fishing trip with my brother and friends
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GUATEMALA | Tue, 15 Mar 2011 | By angiel | Photo Gallery


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