Destination: Guatemala
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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [6141]
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 [2980]
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
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 | By elawlor | Views [753] | Comments [2]
I love the mountain school! It is a little over an hour out of Xela and set in some green mountains with many small vilages surounding the area. Up to 14 students study in a week and we all live in a house at the school and eat our meals with our local ... Read more >
Tue, 25 Feb 2014 | By alyssa730 | Views [513]
This country is beautiful!! The weather has been amazing so far and the landscape of Antigua is breathtaking! When I first arrived, I was taken here to Maximo Nivel to check in, and then brought to my "homestay"...I was under the impression that I would ... Read more >
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 | By kalamina | Views [511]
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 >
Mon, 6 Aug 2007 | By didne | Views [498]
The rainy season is now in full swing, i´m getting regular soakings. I have NO clean clothes apart from what im wearing now, everything else has been packed wet and is STINKING !!! Nothing´l dry and i´m still looking for a laundrette. DAY 186 MON 6 ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
Sat, 5 Jul 2008 | By eurocharles | Views [497]
After deciding which Eurail ticket to buy, i finally chose the Global Pass for 10 Days in 2 months. Yes, i will have to buy another one later. Anyway, the thing the surprised me was the speed of delivery. I just bought this thing on July 3 and today ... Read more >
Tue, 26 May 2015 | By | Views [484] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
“Move over, señoras y señores! Go on, lady - move to the back please, there’s plenty of space!” The driver’s assistant is rearranging the passengers on the already packed bus to make room for more. After a few months in Guatemala, this feels like a ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Thu, 30 Jun 2011 | By nelsjohnson | Views [479]
(The iTouch and Flickr don´t allow direct embedding, so hit link below to view our iTouch photos) http://www.flickr.com/photos/gringotenango/
Sat, 11 May 2013 | By joliver4567 | Views [401]
Hello all,
Sorry that I've been a bit behind on the blog, but some places we don't have electricity yet alone Internet. Guatemala is hands down the best spoken Spanish that I've heard yet. Ie. I understand about 1 in 10 words.... We spent ... Read more >
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, 19 Nov 2014 | By thisisme | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Im a young men who want to learn and have a one time experience about photography because i love this area and has become my pasion, and i should be chosen because i´m different and i see the photography in my own way and im sure that people will love ...
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Tags: 2014 travel photography scholarship
Sat, 16 Oct 2010 | By centralamerica | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Dear Jason,
Photographing and travelling around the world, are my favourite combination ever and there is nothing else that I want more in my life then to combine those two, as my “work office”!
I am from Slovenia and I have been living ...
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Tags: #2010wnphoto, basket, family, guatemala, kids, latin america, motorbike, old man, shoes, travel photography scholarship 2010
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 | By moley | Photo Gallery
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