Youth Hostel Los Amigos Peten

Hi All - I have returned to Flores, where i stopped off briefly on the way down to meet Esther, but this time i come bearing gifts in the form of the lovely lady herself! Today we spent the day exploring the Maya ruined city of Tikal, which differs from the other ruins i have visited by being set completely in the middle of the jungle - we hiked up to the summit of trecherous temples to gaze on jungle, jungle as far as the eye could see, punctuated a few times only by the other pyramids. It p...

Week 2 in Guatemala, despite every random person carrying at least a machete or even better a hand gun, we have managed to do quite well...despite the beach withdrawal symptoms Dave is having. We crossed the border from Belize to Guatemala and headed straight to Flores. Stayed in Hostel Los Amigos, where we got a beautiful mezzanine cabin bedroom looking down in to the hostel. The prices were at least half of what they were in Belize, which was quite sweet considering I had been reprimanded a...

We got on board a local minibus when we crossed the border which was heading straight to Flores, an Island by Santa Elena. We knew that we were getting a good deal for the price we paid for the transport as the bus was filled to the rim with locals. After a very bum-numbing ride to Santa Elena, we transferred into a taxi which took us to Los Amigos hostel on Flores. The hostel was pretty cool and laid back. The only annoying things were the amount of pets they had - dogs and parrots - they de...

Hello all you beautiful people! Tis Becca here, and inbetween scratching my mosquito (bloody mosquitos!) bitten self, I am going to attempt to tell you all that has happened between Tulum and here - Flores, Guatemala. Enjoy! So, to leave Mexico and go to Belize City, it was going to take a few hours - we decided to do this overnight and left late from Tulum, only to arrive in Chetumal - the mexican border town - to be told that the next bus to Belize City wasn´t until 5am.. bummer! So we had ...

Well.... even Katy's love for the beach was waning.... we were all itching to do something. We (with Quentin) chicken bused it to San Ignacio at the western boarder of Belize with the view to doing some caving which is, other than beach, what one does in Belize apparently, before crossing into Guatemala. Our cave tour began with a long trek through forest and rivers. At the caves' mouth we put on fetching helmets and handed camaras to the guide who carried a very handy triple bagged waterproo...

Today was mainly the travel day. Got up around 7am and head to the border with a collectivo Taxi for $5BZD. Then after paying the exit fee of $37.50BZD and pass through immigration of Guatemala, I waited for the minibus to Flores. With Q22 and 2 hours of travel you get to the Isla de Flores. I went with TukTuk direct to Los Amigos Hostel for Q25/night. The island is in a very nice location. I bougth my Tikal tickets from the Hostel for Q50 return for the morning trip to the biggest Mayan worl...

Thursday 18th: We got up at 7am to say farewell to Penny and Duff and then Jennie, Jo, Matt and I took the chicken bus to Flores at 10am. We had to stand for the first hour but then we managed to get seats....very bouncy seats!! We arrived at 2pm and headed straight to Hostel Mon Ami in El Ramate which had been recommended to us by a fella at Hacienda Tijax. A nice spot by the lake ....which we dived straight into as soon as we'd dumped our bags in the room!!
We chilled out in the hostel ...

Bonjour a tous!!! yyyy lala!! on voit deja la fin de notre voyage arrivee a grand pas mais on continue den profiter a fond, croyez-nous. En passant notre sante est revenu a tous les 2!! sebas est tout fier de faire des belles crottes dures. donc comme prevu, jeudi on a rejoind Isa a Panahachel apres avoir quitte notre coin de paradis de San pedro. On avait lintention de dormir la-bas mais a 3h45, on a change didee et on a opte pour retourner dormir a Antigua pour se sauver du bus le lendemain...

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