Alcazar Dona Victoria Coban

... was a dream.<br><br>Went to a zoo park in search of the elusive Quetzal (the national bird), but did not find one - did see a pair of jaguars mating though! There enclosure was so tiny that i don´t blame them as there was nothing else for the poor creatures to do. We met a lovely bunch of people in Xela though.<br><br>Missing you all loads. I am off now for a spell in the free sauna x x x love you x

... proceeded to charge me 5 Quetzals for the photo........they start them young!!!!<br><br>One day we all went over to Santa Michel (I think), which is anohter village on the Lake. Well, we had village envy big time. The place was so much nicer than San Pedro. The accommodation was of a better standard. It had a real ´hippy´ vibe to it. Basically you would do 4 or 5 day packages where you learn massage etc, a little more cultured ...

... swim in water so we basically had to wade our way into caves and then crawl, yes crawl through certain small holes that would bring you out into larger formations all whilst swimming with one arm, hiking boots and holding the other arm above the water so you don't extinguish the flame. The next hour we proceeded to climb under waterfalls in the cave, jump into black holes, climb ladders in the caves and the final part was dropping through two rocks that ...

... of rest, so Cal and I basically chilled out, when for swims in the river then went for lunch/dinner up in the local town. This ended up being an incredibly cheap meal of chicken, rice, beans and tortillas. It was very good and much cheaper than the food served at El Retiro. Apparently the restaurant/bar is contracted out and the current owner is trying to get as much cash out of the place as ...

... way to Samuk Champey, we jumped of a very high bridge, a lakeside swim and a waterfall. Even for people who didn&#8217;t like jumping off things, the tour was a bloody good time. <br><br>By the waterfall we came to a cave that was half submerged with water and everyone except me tied their thongs to the base of their feet so they didn&#8217;t slide around in the cave. I had still not bought a new pair since they were stolen in Mexico ...

We drove something like 7 hours to get to Coban, thanks to all the hidden speed bumps in every villages.<br><br>The view was awesome. We had to cross a river on a "ferry", that didnt look that secure at all.<br><br>Then we drove through the mountains, it was really great, but we were really tired.<br><br>We arrived in Coban, a really ...

... more innocent people.  It&#8217;s quite sad.<br><br>Needless to say, Devin and I actually made it across alive and are now in Coban. <br><br>There&#8217;s not much to say about Coban.  It&#8217;s basically a jumping off point for other attractions.  It has a cute square with a nice, old church, as many of the towns do.  We just enjoyed a relaxing evening walking around the town and had some pizza for dinner.   It was nice to decompress after the crazy day of travel!

... a hostel, well giving the guy the benifit of the doubt we belived him until we got to the hostel and the price for a room kept going up and talk about pressue sales if we didn't say we might miss the bus in the morning and all that. We took our chances and set off, only to find a place right around the corner for cheaper . The next morning we were on the bus no problems and made ...