Jarachik San Pedro La Laguna

... chicken bus out of town towards Santa Clara, which left at approximately 3:30am. It took us about an hour to reach Santa Clara where we were dropped off on the side of the road with no sense of direction and no clue as to where to hike. We walked a few yards and found a trail that led to a nice lookout over the lake but we knew that wasn´t the Indian Nose, so we searched for about 45 minutes and eventually decided to perch on the lookout and wait patiently for the ...

... to see where we were supposed to wait for the bus. Hmmm...thats curious, no one seemed to be around anymore. Then I hear the familiar blast of the horn and I see our bus racing up the mountain from down below, with everyone else on it. Nice of them to let me in on the plan. I hold my arm out, the Guatemalan sign for ¨stop the bus, I am getting on¨. Apparently, to this driver it meant ¨please slow down only slightly, I would like to run and jump onto your bus¨ as the bus ...

... ought to be a cross-dressing man. We had great fun! There was limbo, won by a very agile Norwegian girl, and the beers were many.<br><br>Sunday morning was very beautiful, and I agreed with Hayden and Mieke to go for a hike to the next city over. But before I knew of it, I had invited both Jarred, Ivan (French) and Ben (British) as well. Because I did not plan on going back to Santa Cruz, I checked out and took my belongings with me - and so did Ben. It was a ...

Still here in Xe la waiting for the whole card thing to work out. Since I might be here a couple weeks I decided to hunker down in a legit habitation. I found two other girls from Portland that are going to be staying a month, and we found a guest house together to stay it. Its a little more than I want to pay (about $110 a month) but the bathroom is clean and the kitchen is huge and it has a nice big open patio ...

I am not a Yoga person. I have done Yoga once before (Anwen took me to Downing yoga class once) and although I see that the stretching is beneficial I was not a fan of all the chat that goes with it: the karma the energy flow the mother-earth malarkey. Don't get me wrong I don&#8217;t think myself above it &#8211; I&#8217;m actually rather bad at many of the positions (obviously lost a lot of the skating flexibility) but it&#8217;s the whole 'pseudo-religious ...

... come here want to be considered travellers and hard core at that. But they all seem to conform to what they think a traveller should look like, dreadlocks, piercings, tattoos, baggy ethnic clothes with a sort of unwashed spaced out look about them. There is also a bit of a drug culture here, well according to the Rough Guide and Lonely Planet and it is obvious a number of people come here for cheap weed, mushrooms, pills and coke and in fact it all seems pretty easy to ...