Up 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…
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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…
guat’s up Flores?
/ 19/02/2013Flores is a crowded little island on Lake Petén Itźa, Guatemala, popular with motorbike hoons and tourists with spectacular sunsets and a vibrant night life to offer. You can walk around the whole island in about 15 minutes, watch kids dodge traffic then leap into the water and try not…
speaking of marriage…
/ 13/02/2013Being an awesome tour group has its advantages. Ernesto and his family threw a house party at grandpa’s and the food, drinks, conversation, laughter, dancing and marriage proposals flowed freely. I say proposals because from my limited understanding of Creole, apparently grandpa and I are getting married in Honduras later…
going underground in border country
/ 13/02/2013San Ignacio lies just near the western border of Belize and Guatemala up in the hills. Our tour guide hails from Cayo as it is locally known so we were lucky enough to be treated to dinner at his grandfather’s house, along with a large slice of his extended family…