Casa de la Iguana Livingston

God i am so lucky to be doing this! I am now in the Caribean town on Livingston, where the Garifuna live. These are a group of people that lived on an island, but the British took all 5,000 of them off of the island and dumped them here because they were deemed troublemakers. Only 2,000 survived the journey and now there are many Garifuna strung along the coast. Livingston is a ramshackle town with many run down buildings and sand streets and occupies the small piece of Caribeean coast that b...

Route - Rio Dulce to Livingston by boat. It is a 2 hour trip and costs 125Q each.

We are now in Livingston. This entry will probablyt have to wait until tomorrow when Leighann fills you in.

After last night I decided to stay another night in Livingston. Last night I had a riot at the hostel de Iguana. There was about 15 of us and we played drinking games, sang, and danced pretty much all night. Needless to say I was moving a little slow this morning ha ha. Around 9 I had breakfast with some mates at cafe Rosada, and then a few of us headed out to the seven waterfalls. The hike along the beach took about an hour followed by a jungle trek for about twenty minutes. The beach was pr...

I arrived in Rio Dulce at around 10pm after the worst journey in the world ever. I was completely shattered by the time >I got there and I didn´t really need to be dropped off on the wrong side of the mile long bridge to my intended hostel. I decided to take advantage of the street vendor before making the journey and sat down near what turned out to be three drunken feisty locals (about the size of oompa loompas) who began to shout out what I assume was abuse (Gringo-this, gringo that). I...

Notes for backpackers:
Where to stay: Casa del Iguana is the place.
Where to eat: I ate hostel food.
Other stuff: You can figure it out.
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After Lanquin I spent a day on the bus and landed in Rio Dulce, a spot popular with foreign yatchees...mostly gringo retirees who sail/party their way around the world. Rio Dulce is a river that comes inland from the port town of Livingston and terminates at the town...

I decided rather than renew my months visa in Dangriga (oh that would be far too easy!), i would travel the distance to a small town in Guatemala called Livingston. Before i came away i noted this place because it has the same name as the town my mother lives in Scotlan (for all those reading from Livingston, hello!). So to my delight i found out it was a realitivly easy hop from Punta Gorda to Livingston by boat. So i jumped on a 3 hour bus from Sittee River to Punta Gorda on a little holida...

Leaving Rio Dulce, we hopped on a collectivo launch down the river to Livingston. Livingston is a port town which cannot be accessed by road. The only option is to hop a boat, down a river, or from other port towns on the coast. So we joined several others on a small boat, and set off. The boat itself is quite simple, with a few rows of seats, and a cover above to keep off... the sun? Surely it must have some purpose, and it isn't to keep off the rain. We found out pretty quick that when it p...

I read a bunch of other reports about Casa de la Iguanua and livingston before we arrived and it was everything i expected. We flew into Guatemala City and took a 6hr bus ride to Caribbean coast. As soon as we got off the bus and felt the ocean breeze we were all soo pumped to be there. We had to walk about 5 blocks to the dock where we got our water taxi to take us to Livingston (about 30 minute trip). Of course we had buy some beers to bring with us on the boat because we just could not wai...

Well after a quick night in Rio Dulce we made our way to Livingston by boat up the river to the coast. Livingston is unlike anywhere else in Guatemala. Mostly inhabited by the Garifuna people( descendent's of Africans brought to the New World as slaves), the town is an attraction for good beaches and party goers.  The trip up the river was interesting to say the least, on the way up it was pouring rain non-stop for the entire hour ride. Now picture a little boat with 12 people crammed into it...