Destination: Guatemala
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Tue, 21 Dec 2010 | By ryanandjo | Views [2964]
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
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 | By coggos | Views [2254]
Semana Santa - Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras revisited.
It was a culture shock to return to Cancun after 3.5 weeks in Cuba but lovely to see Tamara before she returned to Australia. Finally went to the beach which is really an amazing ... Read more >
Tags: antigua, cenotes, chichen itza, guatemala, honduras, merida, mexico, semana santa, vallodolid
Sun, 17 Jun 2007 | By moley | Views [1289] | 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
Mon, 12 Nov 2012 | By margitpirsch | Views [1137]
We got to experience the Mayan ruins around Palenque and after crossing the border to Guatemala the even more impressive Mayan temples in Tikal.
Crossing the border: we had no visa for Mexico ( somehow we managed to just breeze through the crossing ... Read more >
Sat, 27 Jun 2009 | By daveymoore82 | Views [955]
Got ripped off at the boarder exchanging money, nothing new, but on the flip side we knew they would try and con us trying to cross at boarder control, so when they asked us for 20 quetzales (about a quid 30 to me and you) we went on and on for a receipt ... Read more >
Fri, 1 Apr 2011 | By disorientednomad | Views [913]
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
Sat, 5 Sep 2015 | By tomcan | Views [582] | Video | Scholarship Entry
I recently graduated with a film degree and I am passionate about finding, creating and telling stories. I love to travel and explore new cultures and meet new people. Making documentary films is the most interesting and rewarding style of filmmaking ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Film Scholarship to Colombia
Mon, 17 Mar 2014 | By alyssa730 | Views [533]
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 >
Sun, 9 Mar 2014 | By alyssa730 | Views [400]
So this week was fairly uneventful but some notable things happened for sure...My week at placement was pretty great. On Tuesday there was a "fiesta de Carnival" (kind of like Fat Tuesday) at school and the children all dressed up in costumes and brought ... Read more >
Thu, 9 Apr 2009 | By tom_moench | Views [367]
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.
Wed, 9 Jul 2014 | By kikkijayne | Views [357]
Today was another long transit day with three buses and road border crossings into Guatemala from Mexico.
We made it safe & sound to the quiet mountain transit town of Quetzaltenango or Xela as the locals call it.
Whilst the road trip was a ... Read more >
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 | By brianalexandercary | Views [347]
Sun, 31 May 2009 | By cherryblossomgirl | Photo Gallery
Language Course Antigua
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