Our first ciudad in Honduras was Copán…where it must be said, I lost my shitenhausen. Between absolutely amazing Mayan ruins frequented by macaws – that magnificent parrot in all the colours of the best things in the world – horse riding to charming villages up steep hillsides on little-more-than-ponies with…
Bec
Previous lives include graphic designer, trainee chef and favourite child. These days I'm living each day as it comes...otherwise known as giving up my good job, giving up my house to tenants, giving up a lot of material possessions and even giving up my cat. The future includes traveling to South America, Canada, the US and Central America to work out where next...
awesome, alluring Antigua
/ 19/02/2013Antigua is a maze of cobblestone streets that run between rows of brightly painted walls and doors that hide tranquil gardens and courtyards. Each corner can look like any other, especially at night and I kept losing my sense of direction, even when I wasn’t enjoying a few adult beverages.…
reaching new heights in Panajachel
/ 19/02/2013Panajachel lies on the shores of Lake Atitlan and serves as a tourist base and home of ex-pat hippies. A handful of us joined Pablo from Mayaland Travel for the day to visit the local communities of San Juan and Santiago. We took an open boat across the lake to…
matiox San Jorge La Laguna
/ 19/02/2013Up in the Guatemalan highlands the temperature drops and the character goes up. After stocking up on essentials like toilet paper, sugar, rice, oil, beans and powdered milk we continued onto San Jorge La Laguna on the shore of Lake Atitlan to meet our home stay families. A community of…
Rio Dulce…the calm and the storm
/ 19/02/2013On our way to Rio Dulce from Flores we decided to hold a BBQ and enlisted the help of our drivers to bring some utensils and firewood while we raided a supermarket for supplies and then a butcher in the very local part of town for whole tenderloin. 200 quetzals…