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- Guatemala
- Capital
- Quetzal (GTQ)
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- 12,974,361
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Flores Slideshow
Flores
Travel Blogs from Flores, Guatemala
Flores and El Remate
After leaving the group in Antigua, I took the night bus to Flores. Despite how google maps looks, there ARE roads out there and Flores isn't just a name in the middle of nowhere!! Flores is actually a tiny island in Lake Petén Itzá, connected by ...
Tikal
... : 4 armed Guatemalan guards on a guided tour, taking photos of each other in full military gear including huge machine guns! Priceless! Flores itself is beautiful, quaint, and well worth a few days of relaxing and jumping off the piers into the ...
Chicken Bus Schmicken Bus!
... who spoke Spanish and drove to the border where we had to walk across and pay (steeply) to both exit Belize and enter Guatemala. Thanks to our Spanish speaking friends we were able to avoid another chicken bus for the second leg of the trip and jumped on ...
17 hours in a bus
... City at 10 PM was fairly nice. My seat was pretty far from Matt's so we said 'goodnight and see you in Flores.' No more than 30 minutes after we left Guatemala City, did we stop in the middle of the road. The bus driver informs us that we will be stopping ...
Tikal Guatemala
Hi guys Well I am somewhere in Central America. I arrived in Guatemala about a week ago…. and came here because I like guacamole....the name sounds similar. I have ditched my trolley bag and high heels for flip flops and a back pack.... yes I ...
At last a day of rest!
... off to just rest, and boy do we need it! We had to get up at 3 this morning to get to the airport in time to fly to Flores so we have just chilled the whole day so far. We went across the lake to see the island, but really not much to see. Pam, Reina ...
Jun 19, 2009
La Ruta Maya - Part III
I'll begin the Flores entry by remarking how beautiful Guatemala is – it is the most visually stunning country I have ever visited and I had decided this by the end of the 2 hour journey from the Belize border to Flores. Flores is a quaint, colonial ...
Jungle heat
Took the overnight bus from Antigua to here last night via Guatemala City.Hot and sticky. Great hostel called Los Amigos but no double room except up and down too many steps for the too of us to have to manage in the night! Booked into an ok hotel and ...
Group Effort
... . I love how helpful people are. About a four-hour bus ride to Santa Elena, a small town connected to the island of Flores, a tourist-ridden town near Tikal National Park, the site of the capital in the Maya world. We made it to Hotel Continental after ...
My First Real (and possibly last) Blog Entry
... the girls and the boys stayed behind to wait for their mates to arrive. So Josie, Olivia, and I headed to Flores, Guatemala; a fairly standard home base for exploring the ruins of Tikal which were absolutely incredible. Flores/Tikal has definitely been ...
Mayan Ruins
I fell in love with Guatemala when I crossed the border and I spent a month traveling all over. I'm only going to set one map pin for now though as I don't have time to write the entries as ...
The road North
The torrential rain from the previous evening as still falling this morning, but eased as we crammed ourselves into a shuttle to Flores. This was the most uncomfortable journey to date, as Jonathan´s knees were up against the seat in front for the entire ...
Still not how I planned
... days and move on to maybe Lago Atitlan. Two days ago I went to the Tikal Mayan ruins that are about 1 hour north of Flores. They were amazing. We (I met up with a Canadian family originally from El Salvador) climbed up some of the Temples, which takes ...
Visite des ruines de Tikal! Un monde lointain!
... On se fait un pique-nique maison composé de tortillas garnis de guacamole, tomate, coriandre et lime! Trop bon! Au retour ŕ Flores, nous sommes fatigués et faisons une petite sieste. Nous prenons ensuite notre dernier souper en compagnie de nos amis ...
the wheels on the bus . . . .
Hola chicos, buenos tardes! i now write to you from sunny guatemala! what a 48hrs its been! freaks revisited, deliverance accommodation, 3 countries in one day, and total consumption all all white wine in flores! afer i blogged you friday jo and ...
Mar 14, 2011
Flores + Tikal
... am Boden angekommen bin :) Aber für den unglaublichen Ausblick hat sich dieser Adrenalinkick wirklich gelohnt. Flores ist übrigens eine kleine Insel im Norden von Guatemala. Wenn man Luftbilder im Google anschaut könnte man meinen es ist Lindau. Auch ...
Back in the land of the liter beer
The first half of my trip from San Pedro Sula, Honduras to Flores, Guatemala went smoothly until arriving in Guatemala I was switched to a chicken bus. Actually it was more of a puppy-parakeet bus , since no chicken was present only a puppy in a ...
Tikal
... werde ich in Flores verweilen. Eine kleine "Stadt" auf einer kleinen Insel, umgeben von grossen See. In Flores angekommen, habe ich feststellen mussen, dass die Nachttour nach Tikal auch direkt von Flores aus gestartet werden kann - abfahrt ...
Of Serendipitous Wake-ups
After an all-night bus trip that took close to 11 hours, we arrived in the island town of Flores. We both hoped a few sleeping pills would quiet the bathroom door which slammed all night because of broken latch. However, we still only slept for a few ...
barevne mestecko Flores a tarzanomanie
... 15. duben, 2011 Z Tikalu jsme s Kackou a 5 Australanama sedli do predem zamluveneho minibusu a smerovali si to vsichni do Flores, krasneho mestecka na ostruvku v Petenu, Guatemale. Muj oblibeny pruvodce z UK - Rough Guide nas navedl do prima hostylku, ...
On to Tikal
... nice day, and definately a highlight of the trip. It was the axis mundi to an ancient Mayan civilization that covered all of Guatemala. Tikal is on all the Guatemalan license plates, which shows how much it is revered in Guatemala, and in any visit ...
Tikal, Tick! And Tropical Storm Lupita y Andrea
... speaking all languages, enjoying breakfast and coffee. We arrived very early, while it was still pitch dark, in Flores, a lakeside city in the more northern part of Guatemala, after 12 hours of road travel in a freezing bus. Mi amigo and travel mate Tim ...
San Andres
... of the word despacio is highly recommended in this country. I also paid a visit to the number one tourist attraction in Guatemala, Tikal. This was this biggest Mayan site that I had seen so far, and it was an amazing experience. Although a lot of ...
Rivers & jungle & pyramids
... Rio Dulce. The Lonely Planet really exaggerated the spectacularness of this river journey. It was supposed to be a highlight of Guatemala, but I was mostly pretty bored. Rio Dulce town didn't seem very interesting either unless you like checking out ...
Now I know how rainforests got their name.
... drinks with him and some other peeps he´d met at his hostel then it was back to our room (or sauna) via a 20 min tour of Flores - damn pesky streets all looked the same! The next day we set off on a trip to Tikal where we´d stay the night and get up ...