Destination: Guatemala
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Wed, 21 Mar 2007 | By alyssa_schwartz | Views [1870] | 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
Sun, 19 Feb 2012 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [1802]
"La Casa de Federico" is what I said to the driver as I got on the sardine-packed bus toward San Jose (in Guatemala, not Costa Rica). He knew precisely how to get there! Driving seemingly in a circle around Lake Peten it was pouring down ... Read more >
Tags: nature, organics, people
Sun, 17 Jun 2007 | By moley | Views [1306] | Comments [1]
In a small wee town called Flores Gautemala. Yesterday Jo and I decided to swim in the lake outside the hotel. We sat in the water which was teeming with fish and looked across the further bank. It was beautiful, the sun was shining and we were in ... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 | By willlou | Views [1158]
Last week we left Antigua to spend a week or so in Honduras. We visited the Mayan ruins at Copan and had planned to head to the coast to stay on the Bay Islands. We had to cancel this trip as Hurricane Wilma brewed up and the coast was put on Hurricane ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Mon, 25 Mar 2013 | By emsussman | Views [1082]
I have gotten lazy with writing so I have way too much to catch up on! I’m going to do one blog entry to write about the rest of the trips I have taken and I separate one to write about the last few weeks of my time in Antigua and at my orphanage.... Read more >
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 | By kathrynandruben | Views [724]
So, from Mexico we headed down to Belize. Contrary to everyone's advice, we weren't going to stay out on the cayes of Belize. Kathryn had spent half our money already on guacamole and chips in Mexico. After just one night in Belize city we made for the ... Read more >
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 | By lockers | Views [664]
On the 18 hour bus ride from Managua in
Nicaragua to Guatemala City, I met an
Australian girl, Monique, and, after being advised that it wasn't
safe to get a public bus on a Sunday evening to Antigua, we shared a
30 ... Read more >
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 | By donkosarev | Views [601]
Since writing a blog for my trip for my summer 2013 trip was a challenge I set for myself since the day I started planning the trip itself, I have finally began. Not in the best of circumstances admittedly, since walking in the gushing rain that is frequent ... Read more >
Tags: start
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 | By kalamina | Views [519]
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 >
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 | By soyeldustin | Views [497] | Comments [3]
i guess theres something i ought explain. im getting a little tired of blogging, i feel like most the stories are getting to be the same thing, and the really important, interesting stuff is impossible to describe. i cant sit here in an internet cafe ... Read more >
Thu, 9 Apr 2009 | By tom_moench | Views [388]
We had to wait an hour or so for Santiaquito to do her regular thing below us. With the sun up the wind and cold fog disappeared and waiting was a delight. See more in the Santa María photo gallery.
Mon, 25 May 2015 | By | Views [380] | Scholarship Entry
Everyone has a "hit list" right? Not the kind of hit list where you name the people you want killed off (bad form to put that sort of thing in writing); rather, a list of travel stories you can tell to just about any crowd. My audience is typically ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Wed, 14 May 2014 | By | Views [264] | Scholarship Entry
I had arisen to thundershowers and lightening bolts, howling monkeys, and wide-eyed owls hidden in the grass of my pathway towards Tower IV. It was the madrugada, the wee hours of the morning, and the forest was heaving green and blue, dumping buckets ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Mon, 27 Oct 2014 | By alexmarkow | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I am a Miami, FL based photojournalist eager to continue to travel. Being able to explore new countries and engage with different people is what it is all about to me. I am so captivated and inspired when traveling and find my best photographs are captured ...
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Tags: 2014 Travel Photography Scholarship
Tue, 12 Jun 2007 | By nat_and_chris | Photo Gallery
Antigua, Panajachel + Chichicastenanga
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