Destination: Guatemala
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Wed, 2 Jan 2013 | By steve_and_emma | Views [1436]
It would have been all too easy to lounge around in San Pedro La Laguna for another day but fortunately we’d already bought our shuttle tickets. There was no way we were going to waste Q180 a head so we were up, packed and at the tour office ... Read more >
Sun, 17 Jun 2007 | By moley | Views [1302] | 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, 18 Mar 2008 | By kirstenroche | Views [956] | Comments [3]
So in the last few days, I managed to make it successfully with Anna to Antigua, Guatemala! We each got certified in scuba diving, our passport to the ocean! As of 3 days ago we can go anywhere in the world we want to to dive up to 100 feet down ... Read more >
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 | By compassrose | Views [850]
“¡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
Fri, 9 Feb 2007 | By ghostofkrystenpast | Views [734]
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
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 | By priovolo | Views [723] | Comments [2]
So, here we are.. our last few days in, what seems to be, the mango and avocado capital of the world. We have consumed so many of the two that we find it hard to believe there are extras laying around. Currently in Flores (the north of the country), ... Read more >
Sun, 8 Aug 2010 | By kalamina | Views [607]
All I have to say is that San Pedro is amazing!! It is so nice to wake up every day to a beautiful view, knowing that you get to spend the morning learning Spanish and waste away the afternoon drinking licuados and trying to do Spanish homework while ... Read more >
Sun, 1 Mar 2009 | By alleen | Views [551] | Comments [8]
Another week of school is behind me. Friday we went to the market in San Francisco. It is the largest market in Guatemala and was very interesting. They had everything for sale from clothes, to house wares, to food, to live animals, to just ... Read more >
Tags: el remate, flores, san francisco, sunsets, tikal
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 | By hcr64 | Views [473]
Spent a couple of very pleasant days in Palenque in the hot sunshine & torrential rain. Took ourselves to the site of the ruins on a local bus which was much cheaper than the shuttles for tourists. Was a stunning place, much smaller than Tikal but ... Read more >
Wed, 9 Jul 2014 | By kikkijayne | Views [363]
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 >
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By | Views [269] | Scholarship Entry
We met our guide and took off through the Nebaj market to the microbuses. The clouds were heavy and the music was repeating a Spanish song “God, please bring the rain!” as if to tempt the heavens into bringing the rainy season early. Just in time to ruin ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2013
Tue, 18 Aug 2009 | By joealotto13 | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 15 Nov 2013 | By mearle | Photo Gallery
Backpacking through Guatemala
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Sun, 8 Mar 2015 | By cubannomad | Photo Gallery
This is a town 30 minutes from Antigua where I work as a volunteer at an after school program.
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