Destination: Guatemala

Photos: Volcán Pacaya, Guatemala

Thu, 20 May 2010 | By hpmoon | Photo Gallery

Photos: San Pedro La Laguna

Sun, 2 May 2010 | By jahson4 | Photo Gallery

Photos: Guatemala

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 | By ingrid_nash | Photo Gallery

last day in guatemala

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 | By elawlor | Views [750] | Comments [1]

Sorry for my silence. I haven´t had much internet time recently. I am in Flores, Guatemala and will take a bus back to Belise in the morning. I will be wwoofig for two weeks and diving the blue hole before heading to Mexico for some more mayan ruins and ... Read more >

Photos: Guatemala

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 | By lounloz | Photo Gallery

Photos: bev and jack´s visit

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 | By elawlor | Photo Gallery

The cutest place in the world

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 | By lounloz | Views [415]

Our next stop was Antigua, which was nice for a city, but too big and busy and expensive for us, especially since we got fully ripped off for a volcano hike.. good lesson to learn, dont believe ppl when they say that its all included cos ya get there ... Read more >

the begining of the Guatemala adventure.............

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 | By lounloz | Views [706]

So the mission to Guatemala started in the bus station in Chetumal at about 6am where we met some other backpackers on the same mission. So we now had an Irish, a kiwi, a german, a dutch and an english couple. So we left the land of comfortable buses ... Read more >

Mayan Ruins and Active Volcanoes

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 | By sierrayla-1 | Views [2504] | Comments [1]

My relaxing weekend was just that.   I hadn’t realized that I had been going nonstop for two weeks, and hadn’t slept past 7A in all that time.   The next week was pretty uneventful.   It was filled with Spanish class.   I decided to go on a trip ... Read more >

Tags: antigua, guatemala, tikal, volcano

Photos: gua

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 | By francinefrog | Photo Gallery

valentines day

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 | By elawlor | Views [631] | Comments [2]

I am officially finished with spanish school. I had a lovely last week of classes at the MT school with another great group of people and wrote a childrens story in spanish for my graduation on friday. I left immediately after for Xela to go on the weekend ... Read more >

Tags: trekking

Spanish school in Antigua

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 | By sierrayla-1 | Views [1063] | Comments [1]

Hola de Antigua,                 The trip down here from San Ignacio was a long one.   I caught a bus to Benque, a town near the border.   While on the bus I was very fortunate to meet two German girls, one of which spoke fluent Spanish.   ... Read more >

recent adventures

Thu, 4 Feb 2010 | By elawlor | Views [811] | Comments [2]

I am currently living with a family in Xela and studying at a language school here just for a week since the mountain school was full this week. I have been studying 5 hours each afternoon with my teacher and have taken up coffee-drinking since I found ... Read more >

Tags: trekking

el fin de semana (the weekend)

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 | By elawlor | Views [883] | Comments [4]

quick update: successfully made it through my first week of spanish lessons. I began my week telling my host family that is was nice to meet them instead of saying I liked the food. I mean, me gusta and mucho gusto are similar enough, right? And now ... Read more >

Tags: school

la escuala de la montana

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 | By elawlor | Views [559] | Comments [2]

I love the mountain school! It is a little over an hour out of Xela and set in some green mountains with many small vilages surounding the area. Up to 14 students study in a week and we all live in a house at the school and eat our meals with our local ... Read more >