 | Happy Cinco de Mayo
2004-05-05, Antigua, Guatemala. By: spadilla03 | | Even though the Guatemalans probably don't really care about Mexico's independence day so many of you seemed excited about it how could I not mention it.
We woke up at about 8 o clock and headed ou... |
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 | NASCAR in a bus
2004-05-05, Antigua, Guatemala. By: juanjuanju | | We woke up this morning to find our bathroom flooded. So we left. We left Hotel Fenix to head toward the bus station so we could go to Antigua. As we walked around looking lost, Marco, a local from... |
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| The Arrival
2004-05-05, Guatemala City, Guatemala. By: juanjuanju | | Ok. I messed up by putting two journals but from now on i'll update this journal on a regular basis.
We left Chicago at noon on Tuesday and arrived in a whole new world at 7pm on Tuesday night. I... |
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 | 5 countries in a day!
2004-02-28, Guatemala City, Guatemala. By: chefortune | | Searching for the best airfare deal, and boosting the airmiles a bit more, I embarked on a bit of a trek to get from Costa Rica up to Guatemala, where I would take part in a weeklong human rights dele... |
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 | Nunca Mas
2004-03-05, Rabinal, Guatemala. By: chefortune | | Guatemala has to be one of the brightest, yet saddest, countries I have ever seen. A place whose history and culture I have studied for a number of years, coming here on a NISGUA human rights delegati... |
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 | The Amazing Ruins at Tikal
2004-03-25, Tikal, Guatemala. By: mcl_sarah | | Sharon and i had been riding various buses for about 12 hrs and through the groggy haze in my head, i was really, really hoping i was going to like Tikal. about the only good thing about taking an ov... |
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 | Ring of Fire
2004-03-07, Antigua, Guatemala. By: chefortune | | On my final day in Guatemala, after a fairly intense week on the human rights delegation, I took some time out to relax and visit with an old friend, Jorge. He picked me up from the hostel I was stayi... |
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 | Off to Barbados
2004-03-25, Panajachel, Guatemala. By: khart | | This is my last story before I head off to the exotic climes of Barbados for a bit of luxury!
I have had a nice quiet couple of days at Lake Atilan. Yesterday, I took a glorified bathtub across the... |
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| Schools out...
2004-03-23, Panajachel, Guatemala. By: khart | | I have finally finished my week at school and now yo hablo como un native! Well, not really, but I do feel that I am better than I was a week ago!
I had a good weekend, although I didn't really do ... |
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| Freddie the friendly flea
2004-03-18, Antigua, Guatemala. By: khart | | My mum and dad are going to laugh at this, but I have a flea (se llama Freddie)! He seems to like me a lot and shows this by biting me frequently at night. At first I thought it was a mosquito, but t... |
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 | The Gringo Capital of Guatemala
2004-03-15, Antigua, Guatemala. By: mcl_sarah | | Well, my guatemalan experience wouldn't be complete without going to Antigua at least once, so Sharon and i ventured four hours south of Xela for the weekend to see the gringo capital of Guatemala! an... |
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| Safely installed in Guatemala
2004-03-16, Antigua, Guatemala. By: khart | | After a long plane trip from Rio via Miami, I am now in Guatemala. I had a long wait in Miami airport, which seemed much better after I had read in the English newspaper that England had thrashed the ... |
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 | I´m Not a Beachy Sort of Girl
2004-02-29, Tilapa, Guatemala. By: mcl_sarah | | yeah, if i discovered one thing about myself this weekend it´s that i´m not cut out for spending extensive periods at the beach. i don´t have the patience to lay on a towel and cook my body, and my sk... |
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 | The Pictures Speak for Themselves
2004-02-27, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. By: mcl_sarah | | the cemetary was the most colorful, vivacious, and living place i´ve been to since coming to xela. ironic, since it´s the place where one puts dead people. the graves were all above ground, a concept ... |
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 | Carnival experience
2004-02-28, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. By: mcl_sarah | | so the country fair came to xela this week, complete with everything from a faris wheel powered by a partially disasembeled model T ford to the typical and ever beloved fried dough. though, in typica... |
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| It´s never too full
2004-02-29, Tilapa, Guatemala. By: mcl_sarah | | oh, here´s a chicken bus adventure for you!! on the way back from the beach we had to change buses somewhere, i don´t know where we were. anyway, there was definitely no room on the bus for a herd of ... |
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| San Simon
2004-02-20, Zunil, Guatemala. By: mcl_sarah | | We went to visit a local mayan god located in the city of zunil. it was an interesting experience, and i´m glad i went, but it was also one of the most disturbing and revulting things i´ve seen, and i... |
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| Full Moon Volcano Hike
2004-01-16, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. By: mcl_sarah | | We left for the hike around 11:30 pm with a beautiful full moon shining. hiking the volcano was definitely the most difficult hike i´ve ever done in my life. about 100 times harder than anything on th... |
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| My First Impressions of Xela
2004-02-06, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. By: mcl_sarah | | ¡Hóla de Guatemala y buenos diás a los todos!
Hello from Guatemala and greetings to all of you!
As most of you already know, i´ve just arrived in guatemala to spend the next four months studyi... |
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 | San Marcos
2003-12-08, San Marcos, Guatemala. By: jmjourney | | Don't you love it when everything falls into place
with very little effort? John and I got ourselves over
to San Marcos, and within a few hours lucked into an
incredible communal homestay with a th... |
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| Semuc Amazing Champey
2003-11-26, Semuc, Guatemala. By: jmjourney | | The travel gods were with us and we arrived just in
time to catch the minibus for the grinding two and a
half hour ride over dirt road, rocks and occasional
washouts from the town of Coban, through... |
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| Coban
2003-11-23, Coban, Guatemala. By: jmjourney | | The nice owners at Cafe Chiléro (Cool Beans) in Flores
gave us great directions for getting from Flores to
Coban, which helped us avoid a costly travel agency
fee ($25 vs $6) but also gave us quite... |
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| Volunteer Peten, San Andres
2003-11-17, Peten, Guatemala. By: jmjourney | | After a few typically idyllic days at Finca Ixobel, we
made our way back to Lago de Itza and
mini-chicken-bussed it over to the tiny, pretty little
town of San Andrés to start our week of working w... |
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| Crazy journey to Finca Ixobel
2003-11-14, Guatemala, Guatemala. By: jmjourney | | After four hours of the bumpiest chicken bus ride of
my life - I was literally fearing for my dental work
as we were bounced out of our seats and into the
aisles several times a minute - we made it... |
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