Quetzaltenango Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

More time spent in this Guatemalan highland city. I wrote in my last blog that we are at 6,000 ft but we have learned it is actually at 7,500 ft and the surrounding mountain towns that we have visited are even higher. While climbing the 3 flights of stairs to our apartment or walking in the hills out in service we easily become winded and tired....

We have been here in Guatemala for a week now in a little apartment we rented in the center of town. We will be here for the rest of our trip. It is great to be settled in one spot after traveling around so much. Gives us a chance to get to know some of the locals too. People here are much more outgoing than in Nicaragua, which makes it nice for...

This morning we took a private shuttle to where we are now. On the way out of San Pedro, we were met by some angry Tut-Tut (3 wheeled taxis) driver. It was the first time I have been a little scared. We think they were protesting anybody just using their personal vehicles to be able to drive people around. But we were OK, our driver had an autho...

Fuer was ist Guatemala nochmal bekannt? Richtig, u.a. fuer 50 oder so Vulkane. Wir hatten ja waehrend unserer Tour durch Mittelamerika so einige Vulkane bestiegen, aber eine Nachtwanderung war noch nicht dabei gewesen. Hier in Xela gibt es einen Hausvulkan, Santa María, 3700m hoch. Einmal im Monat bieten die Quetzaltrekkers (also die Non-Profit-...

On Thursday morning I was still on a diet of tea, jello and toast. But it was more than sufficient. Class was good, we talked about all sorts of things for the first half and then started studying the Present, Past, Past Imperfect and Future Particle (not all that easy when you don´t have a good handle on the tenses in English). After class I ru...

Well today is our last day in Quetzaltenango. We have a bus booked for Guatemala City for 8.30am tomorrow morning, from where we´ll catch the bus for Coban. The last few days have been pretty relaxed, and have included another trip to the salsa club, where much to Megan´s amusement I briefly demonstrated my keen sense of latin rythm, a meal with...

Hello, Guatemala is fairly different from England, here is a summary of my first week. This week much has happened, yet similtaneously it feels as though very little has happened. The week began in England and has ended in a cold room in the house of a local family in Quetzaltenango. During the week I have made many discoveries, some of which ar...

Well guys, here's another update. Not a whole lot to report, but then again maybe that's a good thing. I am staying busy here, still struggling with the whole Spanish thing, and loving working in the clinic here. It's sad but I'm having some fun pick up soccer games with the kids too! Soccer is a pretty big deal around here, I went to a game her...

Ahhh, the city with two names that has consistently evaded my friends and family. Thus here is the jist: Quetzaltenango is the Spanish conquistador name for the city however, Xela (sheyla) is the Mayan name coming from Xelaju (sheylawho). Thus, for the ease of all people the city is widely known as Xela. Xela has the usual full speed ahead road ...

It has been just over a week since we posted our last entry. It has been another very busy week with making many useful contacts and visiting projects. I will attempt to briefly outline our diverse course over the last seven days. We checked in with Entremundos, the organizational development NGO here, to reconnect with their new executive direc...