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Thu, 15 Mar 2007 | By w4michael | Views [753]
March–April 2007 Started by flying into Guatemala City via Atlanta (mid-afternoon) and took a minivan ($10) directly to Antigua (1 hour). Easily found a hotel (tons of hotels, just walk around for a bit to check a few out). $9 per night got me a room ... Read more >
Wed, 28 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Views [1859]
Roatan, an island 50km off the coast of Honduras in the Carribean, and the destination for a weeks worth of sleeping, eating and snorkelling. To get to the island we had to make for La Ceiba where we would catch a ferry to the island. In our ignorance, ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 27 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 27 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Views [1882]
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 [1927]
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, 27 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 27 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Views [1859] | 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!
Tue, 13 Feb 2007 | By ghostofkrystenpast | Views [918]
So I made a last minute decision to climb another volcano. A bigger volcano. Acatenango to be exact, the one with two peaks. All I can really say about it was that it was 11 of the most excruciating and simultaneously most amazing hours of my life.... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Sun, 11 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Views [2119] | 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
Sun, 11 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Views [1625]
On Thursdays and Sundays the town of Chichicastenango comes alive - it hosts one of the largest indigenous markets in Guatemala. We decided to do a day trip there for the Sunday Markets. Chichi is in the Guatemalan Highlands, and the bus ride was simply ... Read more >
Tags: Markets
Fri, 9 Feb 2007 | By ghostofkrystenpast | Views [704]
I went to the lake this weekend, and it was nice. That sums it up pretty good actually, but I suppose that if I were to try and get more specific I could say that (almost) the whole group of us headed for Santiago on the shores of Lake Atitlan ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
Tue, 6 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Views [2364] | 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
Tue, 6 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Views [645]
Seems that Antigua has run out of Quetsales (local currency!), so while Pete is in one of the queues to try and get some form of cash - I thought that I would take the chance to get some of my thoughts about Antigua and Guatemala up here! We arrived ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 5 Feb 2007 | By pen-eddie | Photo Gallery
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