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| Back to Xela, Back to Reality
2008-04-10, Guatemala, Guatemala. By: jenndeleon | | So my family and I never made it to Tikal. Reasons? Let’s start with the A’s.
1. Tia Antonieta.
2. Tio Alvaro’s sister in law
Now the B’s.
1. Baby Shower
C’s.
1. Tia Che crying because... |
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| Semana Santa With My Family
2008-03-24, Guatemala, Guatemala. By: jenndeleon | | As a child who frequently rode school buses, I would often groan at the bus driver’s announcement, “Three to a seat! Triple up, kids!” Well, the chicken bus ride to Lake Atitlan consisted of familie... |
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| Tajumulco Volcano
2008-03-10, Guatemala, Guatemala. By: jenndeleon | | Tajumulco Volcano
As you know, Saturday, March 8th was International Women’s Day. It is also the day I hiked Tajumulco Volcano, the highest volcano in Central America (4220 meter peak). It is ALS... |
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 | Hippy hangout
2008-04-08, San Marcos La Laguna, Guatemala. By: letlozz | | Tim and I have just got back from the hippy central of Guatemala. Not the most usual place to find us,as I think anyone who knows us will agree, but it was very chilled out, on the shore of Lake Atitl... |
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| beach life
2008-03-31, Monterrico, Guatemala. By: letlozz | | Had a lovely weekend at the beach this weekend. Was nice to get out of Antigua, especially as it has been a bit rainy... as soon as we got to the beach, it was hot hot hot! (im rather sunburnt.) Monte... |
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 | Stories to come!
2008-03-30, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. By: lizlloyd | | I have been in Guatemala for 3 months now and I have been keeping another blog. I will be updating this with some of the stories that I have already written about. They will not be stamped with the co... |
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| Semana Santa #2
2008-03-22, Antigua, Guatemala. By: letlozz | | I apologise for this being of the same subject as the last blog, but that really has been the only thing happening here this week. Thursday night and Friday day time were the most manic, with the loca... |
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| Semana Santa
2008-03-16, Antigua, Guatemala. By: letlozz | | Ive had a very chilled week just hanging out in Antigua... its a good towqn for just sitting in parks and watching the world go by, much as the locals do. Next week is (obviously) Easter week... Seman... |
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| Daily life...
2008-03-10, Antigua, Guatemala. By: letlozz | | hey everyone, thought id let you know how im getting on. Everything going pretty well, ive got to know the town now, and its lovely, it feels nice and safe (touch wood) and everyone is very friendly. ... |
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| First Month in Xela
2008-03-10, Guatemala, Guatemala. By: jenndeleon | | Today is my last day in Xela...for now...I have finished taking classes at the PLQ language school and may take some more at their mountain school in April...but for now, I am packing up my big travel... |
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 | Los Monologos de la Vagina
2008-03-10, Guatemala, Guatemala. By: jenndeleon | | Saturday, March 1.
Los Monologos de la Vagina. The Vagina Monlogues. Starring…none other than: Jennifer De Leon! Not exactly, but…The Proyecto Linguistico (PLQ, the language school) is located next... |
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| Los Monologos de la Vagina
2008-03-10, Guatemala, Guatemala. By: jenndeleon | | Saturday, March 1.
Los Monologos de la Vagina. The Vagina Monlogues. Starring…none other than: Jennifer De Leon! Not exactly, but…The Proyecto Linguistico (PLQ, the language school) is located next... |
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 | Happy birthday to me!
2008-03-02, Antigua, Guatemala. By: mira | | Well it really wasn´t such a happy birthday. Yesterday, 20mins before I was suposed to go for our final group dinner on this leg of the trip and my birthday party I got full blowen case of food poison... |
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 | Lake Atitlan
2008-02-29, Panajachel, Guatemala. By: mira | | I spent today on a boat cruising around Lake Atitlan, going to vilages and just enjoying the scenery of the volcanos. The villages leave alot to be desired, as I am a bit shopped out and the markets w... |
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 | Try saying this three times fast.... Chichicastenago
2008-02-28, Chichicastenago, Guatemala. By: mira | | Jumping from a moving bus was not how I envisioned my journey to central america´s largest markets.
After an early morning (1st class) bus ride to some middle of nowhere cross road. We left the com... |
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| arrivals...
2008-02-29, Antigua, Guatemala. By: letlozz | | Wow, my first real entry! Ill try to keep these to a minimum, cos i think i'll end up writing every day otherwise, which gets quite irritating. It still hasnt sunk in im on the other side of the world... |
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 | Escape from Rio Dulce
2008-02-27, Antigua, Guatemala. By: mira | | I would like to say, first off, this is not as dramatic as some people with wild imaginations may make it out to be (mum this is directed at you).
Usual departure from Rio Dulce would be 9-9:30am b... |
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| Rio Dulce
2008-02-26, Rio Dulce, Guatemala. By: mira | | Yesterday I arrived in Rio Dulce. From the second I stepped off the bus I didn{t like the place. The smell of disel fumes, the lack of sidewlks and the dead dog laying in the street gave me an underwh... |
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 | Welcome to Guatemala!
2008-02-24, Flores, Guatemala. By: mira | | Yesterday I crossed over the border from Belize to Guatemala. The difference was immediately noticable. Apart from the obvious problem with the plumbing/electricity situation (see photo), the roads ar... |
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| Arriving in Quetzaltenango (Xela)
2008-02-11, Guatemala, Guatemala. By: jenndeleon | | My Dad and I rented a car and drove from Guate City to Xela. Read--He woke me up at the crack of dawn and asked me 100 times why i was not ready and why i had so much stuff. He loved it when we were i... |
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| Arriving in Guatemala City
2008-02-10, Guatemala City, Guatemala. By: jenndeleon | | Saludos!
I am here, I am happy.
Before writing about Guatemala, I must go back a couple of years...to June 2005 when I sent an email to many of you on this email list...some of you on here now i di... |
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 | Antigua
2008-08-06, Antigua, Guatemala. By: christykai | | After spending time all over Alta Ver Paz we headed back to Antigua. |
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| Going to Coban
2008-08-03, Coban, Guatemala. By: christykai | | We get up around 5am in order to get breakfast and catch the earliest micro (tourist type minivan) to Coban. We had to change our plans because my sister was evacuated from her city due to political ... |
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| Arriving in Guatemala City
2008-08-02, Guatemala City, Guatemala. By: christykai | | So we landed in Guate at about 6:00pm the sun was setting and you could see the lights of the city as we made our final decent. As the plane bounced across the landing strip and came to an abrupt sto... |
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 | Not San Marcos
2008-01-12, San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala. By: shannyn | | I woke up in the morning and all my money had been stolen... lame. Feeling very very sick from all the beer, wine, beer etc. Then took Toadally Awesome and got a bus to San Marcos. But then the bus dr... |
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| Back in Antigua AGAIN
2008-01-12, Antigua, Guatemala. By: shannyn | | I ran out of money so I had to leave Semuc Champey. There's no banks or ATMs out there. But I ran into some friends from the tour in Antigua and hung out with them. Booked a bus to San Marcos for the ... |
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| Most beautiful place in the world
2008-01-09, Lanquin, Guatemala. By: shannyn | | So, Semuc Champey is the most beautiful place in the world. Google might have photos. It's a HUGE limestone bridge that goes over the river. But the bridge is so huge that you can walk all over it for... |
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| Caves!
2008-01-09, Lanquin, Guatemala. By: shannyn | | The bus trip to Lanquin is LONG but full of fun people and a naked man running down the road. The pick up truck from Lanquin to Semuc Champey is painful and my hips are still bruised BUT the trip is w... |
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| End tour
2008-01-07, Antigua, Guatemala. By: shannyn | | A very sad day indeed. I really miss the tour group. Today we mostly hung around town, went to the markets and spent too much money and I learned how to play chess. Next day I went to the piercing sho... |
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| Lava!!!
2008-01-06, Pacaya, Guatemala. By: shannyn | | and I forgot to mention that we went to a rubber tree plantation in Rio Dulce and saw how they get the rubber from the trees. And they do it sustainably which is nice.. and that´s my story.
In Ant... |
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| San Jorge homestay
2008-01-03, Panajachel, Guatemala. By: shannyn | | After Chichi markets we went to Panajachel for a really tasty lunch and left some sick people from the tour behind in a hotel there.. then went off to our homestay in the little Village of San Jorge. ... |
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| Markets!!
2008-01-03, Chichicastenango, Guatemala. By: shannyn | | There are some photos on my facebook account that other people have taken of me and tagged. So if anyone is on facebook.com, my email is have.string@hotmail.com and my name on Facebook is Shannyn Mare... |
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| On the road again
2008-01-02, Antigua, Guatemala. By: shannyn | | We spent most of Wednesday on the road to Antigua. It´s such a cute little town, full of fun cafes and shops and looks like a little European town. The hotel is amazing again. Then Andrew was jokingl... |
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| New Years!!
2007-12-31, Rio Dulce, Guatemala. By: shannyn | | Our bus driver to Rio Dulce was NUTS! He drove like a maniac through all the winding mountain roads and throwing the bus all over the place at high speeds and overtaking many vehicles on blind corners... |
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| Beers and temples
2007-12-30, Tikal, Guatemala. By: shannyn | | Really. I just typed out a big fat entry about Tikal and somehow lost it in cyberspace.
Something like, Tikal is huuuuge. It takes nearly an hour to cross the whole thing. It´s not just one temple... |
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| Floooooores
2007-12-29, Flores, Guatemala. By: shannyn | | Getting over the border and into Flores, Guatemala took a while. Flores is just another cute little town with bright buildings and cobbled streets. But it is an island that´s in the middle of the coun... |
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 | Goodbye Guatemala xx
2007-11-13, Flores, Guatemala. By: cbr600f | | I was really sad to leave Guatemala, Antigua felt like home. Some of my favourite memories ....
The Guatemaltecos are absolutely great people with a real sense of family, I don't think I ever once ... |
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