Destination: Guatemala
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Tue, 28 Jun 2011 | By alpiner84 | Views [3143]
After debating whether or not to go to Xela, I drove here last week from San Pedro on a beautiful, clear, sunny morning. The skies were blue, the volcanoes green, and the pavement black. Not a bad combination. The road leading up out of San Pedro was ... Read more >
Thu, 8 May 2014 | By | Views [1469] | Scholarship Entry
I’ll never forget the day that I “almost died” while zip lining in Guatemala. It was my second time visiting the exotic and beautiful country of Guatemala and my hosts were ecstatic to bring me to a new zip lining place they found. Before that day, I ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Sun, 17 Jun 2007 | By moley | Views [1299] | 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 >
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Fri, 1 Apr 2011 | By disorientednomad | Views [931]
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 [848]
“¡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 >
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Thu, 6 Nov 2008 | By heywoods1976 | Views [810]
From Panajachel we jumped, staying in Guatemala, to Antigua [The old capital]. It is the old capital because it keeps on having earthquakes. You build an amazing cathedral, it lasts 200 years before its shaken to rubble, you think its a one off, so you ... Read more >
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Tue, 4 Nov 2008 | By amil_patel | Views [685]
I thought it best to provide a brief outline of what I´ll be doing over the next 8 months to warrant a blog and also provide some pointers as to what you can expect from it. I´ve basically got 8 months off work to learn Spanish, do a bit of travelling ... Read more >
Wed, 27 May 2015 | By kelseyapple | Views [598] | Scholarship Entry
Utopia is a perfect name for this hostel, a huge hardwood building with no walls right in the middle of the Guatemalan jungle. From my 2nd floor hammock (30 Quetzals per night) I could see the lime green glow of fireflies buzzing around the trees in ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 | By kalamina | Views [508]
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 >
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 | By emsussman | Views [438] | Comments [1]
Life lessons learned so far:
Water temperature is directly related to water pressure; the more pressure, the warmer the water (I think. It doesn’t actually get hot).
Guatemalans can pack more people onto ... Read more >
Tue, 13 May 2014 | By | Views [311] | Scholarship Entry
San Pedro, Guatemala is a small town situated around the deepest lake in Central America, Lago Atitlan. The lake is actually a gigantic crater formed by an ancient volcano, there is even rumored to be an ancient Mayan village lurking in its depths. Furthermore ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Fri, 15 Nov 2013 | By mearle | Photo Gallery
Backpacking through Guatemala
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Fri, 18 Apr 2014 | By sneaver | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 11 Jan 2009 | By nomad_kiwis | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 17 Apr 2010 | By ingrid_nash | Photo Gallery
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