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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [6042]
The botfly. It may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie: perhaps a robotic fly with a camera that can fly into all those little hard-to-reach places and find out what's going on and what we can learn. Trust me, it's anything but! The human botfly ... Read more >
Tue, 21 Dec 2010 | By ryanandjo | Views [2973]
After crossing the border into Guatemala we jumped on a bus heading towards the capital. The ride took longer than expected because we had to wait two hours in a small town to pick up new passengers. This meant we had all sorts of opportunities to ... Read more >
Tags: antigua, chichicastenango, coban, flores, lake atitlan, san pedro, santiago de atitlan, star wars, tikal, volcano pacaya
Thu, 13 Sep 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1190]
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
Mon, 27 Dec 2010 | By djnlacey | Views [1010]
From Chichicastenango, we took a windy bus ride heading south to the volcano flanked Lake Atitlan. From the bus stop in Panajachel, we took a launcha (small motor boat) to San Marcos, a small town known for it's mystical feel. We checked into the ... Read more >
Tags: cliff jumping, fireworks, guatemala, kayaks, lago atitlan, mayan sauna, new years eve, san marcos, san pedro volcano, yoga
Sun, 11 Jan 2009 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [940]
We caught a collectivo from Comitan and it dropped us outside immigration at the border of Mexico. We actually lined up and Carol was first and presented her passport, of course the man couldn't find an entry stamp so asked for her tourist card. She ... Read more >
Fri, 1 Apr 2011 | By disorientednomad | Views [929]
One day, I was looking at the "1,000 places to go before you die" book, and I saw Tikal. I thought, "I want to go there" so I asked my parents (I was visiting them at the time) if anyone wanted to go for my 30th birthday. My ... Read more >
Tags: 30th birthday, family, guatemala, milky way, santiago atitlan, spanish, tikal, traveling
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 | By compassrose | Views [844]
“¡Cuidado!” someone shouts, as a quetzal with a six metre wingspan catches a gust and soars upwards, rippling my hair as I duck. The giant bird lurches as her reins pull taught, and she begins to dance proudly back and forth on the ... Read more >
Tags: 2017 writing scholarship
Mon, 17 Mar 2014 | By alyssa730 | Views [541]
So this week and weekend was another classic week in Guatemala. Most of the week was the typical Antigua life. I have 2 tandem language partners now. One Guatemalan girl at 9am and a Venezuelan girl at 10am. It's really great because we meet up for an ... Read more >
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 | By brianalexandercary | Views [356]
Sun, 23 Nov 2014 | By srzema | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
My eyes widened as young women desperately ran up to stopped cars in an attempt to sell fruit for mere pocket change. I gasped as gaunt, starving dogs covered in flies rummaged through trash cans for a morsel of food, despite the bystanders hurling rocks ...
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Tue, 27 Jan 2015 | By saloseries | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Ingredients fresh fish salt garlic diced tomatoes quartered onions diced plantains, sliced lengthwise rice 1 cup black beans 1/4 cup How to prepare this recipe rice and beans: in a separate pot boil water with beans until semi- tender add more ...
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Tags: 2015 Passport & Plate: SRI LANKA
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 | By cubannomad | Photo Gallery
A small hippie town full of yoga and wellness centers.
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Tue, 31 May 2011 | By elis82 | Photo Gallery
Photos from Lago de Atitlan, Antigua, Semuc Champey, Flores and Tikal
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Sat, 1 Nov 2008 | By heywoods1976 | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 | By lounloz | Photo Gallery
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