 | San Pedro de Laguna
2003-11-19, Atitlan, Guatemala. By: jantravel | | I am going to miss San Pedro de Laguna. This is one fun little town set on the banks of Lake Atitlan. So many expat’s have landed here and never left. The city is full of people who just decided one d... |
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| This is different
2003-11-19, Antigua, Guatemala. By: jantravel | | It’s nice to have another stamp in my passport. Driving through Guatemala to Anitua was a pleasent trip. I took a minibús and met a couple that lived on Roatan who were going to Antigua for a vacation... |
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| San Marcos to Xela
2003-10-22, San Marcos, Guatemala. By: jmjourney | | From San Marcos, we took a quick lancha over to San Pedro, which had a very different feel to it. Here we found lots and lots of gringos mostly looking to have a good time, lots and lots of Spanish s... |
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| San Marcos
2003-10-17, San Marcos, Guatemala. By: jmjourney | | San Marcos is a wonderful place. We took the quick lancha ride from Casa Del Mundo and entered the jungle canopy that surrounds most of the town. There are a lot of gringos living there, mostly non-A... |
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| Lago De Atitlan, Casa Del Mundo
2003-10-13, Lago De Atitlan, Guatemala. By: jmjourney | | With no room at the school and our itch to explore, we, along with our friend Ulla from Denmark also studying at the school, decided to take a week off and head to the beautiful Lago De Atitilan about... |
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| Finally in Xela!
2003-09-24, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. By: jmjourney | | We have made it to Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala and we are studying spanish. It was a 8 hour bus ride from Guatemala city on the primero clase bus. But after the driver made random stops and picke... |
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| From Tikal to Finca Ixobel
2003-09-15, Peten, Guatemala. By: jmjourney | | We made it on Tuesday to the awesome and wonderous Tikal in the afternoon and evening...just making it to the top of Templo IV via a complicated series of steps and ladders in time to watch a gorgeous... |
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| Getting Going in Guatemala
2003-09-16, Flores, Guatemala. By: jmjourney | | We made it safely to Flores, Guatemala, for the three-day weekend of Independence Day festivities. This also meant, we quickly found out, that not only the banks but also the ATMs would be closed unti... |
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 | Three Moons in El Mundo Maya (part 2)
2003-03-02, Guatemala, Guatemala. By: nealontour | | I left the next morning, spending the day on sorting out travel plans in Antigua, and ended up staying the night in my old haunt of Christmas, Los Amigos Hotel. Sure enough, in the bed next to mine wa... |
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 | Three Moons in El Mundo Maya
2003-03-01, Guatemala, Guatemala. By: nealontour | | I arrived in Cancun, Mexico on December 16th. As a Mecca for all-inclusive packages, it was not really on my agenda. The rest of Mexico is worthy of a trip on its own so on this occasion I stayed less... |
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 | Tube station: lanquin
2003-05-05, Lanquin, Guatemala. By: stefnflo | | Stef and I love traveling, being on the road, watching landscapes
slowly changing, looking at people. It does not matter so much if the
journey can be uncomfortable, the experience always stays vi... |
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| Tikal, the Lost World
2003-05-04, Tikal, Guatemala. By: stefnflo | | From Rio Dulce we took the local bus for Tikal. We met Nicole, a nice
Swiss traveling alone, and we were all ready for a long and hot
journey
persuaded that we were going to see one of the famou... |
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| Sweet life
2003-05-02, Rio Dulce, Guatemala. By: stefnflo | | We took a boat trip to Rio Dulce with our backpacks. We took a German
girl (we had met her before in a bus in Costa Rica) and two
Portuguese
girls with us, and went with two crazy Guatemalan "c... |
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| Life in Livingston
2003-05-01, Livingston, Guatemala. By: stefnflo | | The trip to Livingston took us with all means of transport: walking,
rickshaw, school bus, lift in the back of a pickup, minibus, taxi,
lancha
and walking again, and we finally arrived. The scho... |
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 | Volunteering
2003-04-01, San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala. By: craigvern | | Most people I know volunteer for something, whether they call it that or not. The volunteer experiences that have taught me the most are the ones where I am the farthest away from my daily life and i... |
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| The Chicken Bus
2003-02-23, San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala. By: craigvern | | “How long is the bus ride to Guatemala City?”
“10 – 12 hours.”
“Then the 9pm bus will get in between 7 and 9am then?”
“Yes.”
“Four tickets please.”
Thus went the purchasing of our bus t... |
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| trekking through tikal
2003-02-18, tikal, Guatemala. By: wildwilly | | I wrote a story about my travels and there are pictures on
Enjoy!
William
“Senor, you want to go to Tikal? Thirty American dollars. I take you there myself.”
Tired, sweat-soaked, and alon... |
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 | No es Guatemalaes Guatebueno
2003-02-15, Chichicastenango, Guatemala. By: craigvern | | Hello from Guatemala! This is another update from Susannah and Scott
We have made the move from Mexico to Guatemala this
past week. We arrived
in Palenque, Mexico on the 6th of February and found... |
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| Toltecs, Aztecs, Olmecs and Mayas
2003-02-13, Panajachel, Guatemala. By: craigvern | | Update Number Three
Erin
Toltecs, Aztecs, Olmecs and Mayas
The civilizations do not proceed through time in that particular order, rather it is how we learned about them in a geograph... |
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 | Livingston, I presume?
2002-11-26, Livingston, Guatemala. By: subdude | | Bad joke, nice place. Livingston at one
time was an important port of call for the United Fruit
Company and other exports. Business has moved to th... |
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 | Bad Hotels and Gospel Meetings
2002-11-20, Rio Dulce, Guatemala. By: subdude | | It was raining when we arrived in Rio Dulce that night. Find a hotel
any hotel. O.K. this one is passable from outside. Comfort is relative.
The gospel meeting complete with out-of-tune instruments... |
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 | Synchronicity
2002-11-14, Atitlan, Guatemala. By: subdude | | My original intention was to stay in San Pedro on
Lake Atitlán but synchronicity had other plans
in mind. The infamous Chicken bus ride had beg... |
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 | Going where the road takes me
2002-11-07, Antigua, Guatemala. By: subdude | | Sometimes you need to go where the road takes you. Entering Guatemala is not easy. By this I mean the bus routes. I wanted to go from Tapachula to Quetzaltenango but... Tapachula station was confusing... |
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