El Convento Boutique Hotel Antigua Guatemala

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... test is tomorrow so I´ll check back in to let you know how positive im feeling then.<br><br>On a more personal note, things here are going really well. Our host family is tremendously patient and accomodating (more on them later), everyone at the school is relaxed yet professional (more later) and we are keeping extremely busy with random actividads. I hope to write a more descriptive ...

... square burger before heading back to hole up for the night. <br><br>The next day as fetch-Lynda-from-the-airport day and we got up bright and early to head out to Guatemala City airport. Its really weird but you cant actually wait inside arrivals for the person that you are meeting, everyone has to wait outside the building which makes it really difficult to see if the persons plane has landed on time, needless to say we stood there for about an hour and a half as ...

... to climb the Volcano Pacaya on our last day now my cold has gone. Its an $8 trip plus a fee to enter the park and we are taken there in a mini bus from the hostel (about 11 of us) and a guide is arranged to take us up. We are inundated with kids trying to sell us walking sticks and ponchos (bits of plastic with a hole cut out for the head). Volcan Pacaya is a live volcano and has been erupting continuously since 1960 and is 2552 metres high.<br><br> Its ...

... heavily here as it does in South America. A big beer here is Gallo which has a rooster as its emblem&#8230;shame its not the best taste though.<br><br>We found a really funky bar called I Don&#8217;t Know (no se) and dreamed of opening one like it somewhere in this big old world. <br><br>Upon leaving Antigua we were sad but excited to explore more of the country. The bus station we waited at was secured by armed guards, again with massive guns. The bus we took showed a Guatemalan ...

... bleef hangen. Tijdens het rijden klom de bijrijder via de open voordeur weer naar binnen om vervolgens met een grote bos stinkende vodjes met iedereen af te rekenen. Ondertussen had de chauffeur een stemmig muziekje opgezet, een soort super mario salsa muziek, en scheurde hij met volle vaart en dikke rookpluimen het dorp uit. Zijn zicht moet beperkt zijn geweest met alle Jesus love you teksten op de voorruit, stickers...en niet te ...

... each ($75) for a 3 hour tour. That was an assault pretty much... taking into consideration that a day-long volcano tour is about $30 but well we learned our lesson... There is also an old monastery (Las Capuchinas) where they used to have cages for misbehaved nuns! It is a very nice place. To bad that there was a wedding in there that day. All the tourists were allowed to enter but we bumped into the wedding's attendants and most of the halls ...

... huge baskets on their heads. I've resolved to maintain my position on the outside of the sidewalk, as on the inside there are iron grills covering windows that protrude into the walking space at shoulder level - my shoulder level - the locals are short enough to pass under them, so I'm sticking to the outside to avoid whacking my head regularly. Always there's the loud call of the chicken-bus conductor. For those of you ...

... intense in parts and made even arduous by all the self proclaimed volcanologists that kept enlightening everyone with their endless volcano jargon....'do you know what this is....its a lava bomb.....do you know how its formed...blah blah blah". So you watch the Discovery Channel eh Einstein? Nearer to the top, the landscape became barren and you could literally feel the heat heaving out of the rocks beneath your feet - people were actually roasting marshmallows above the rocks ...

... Welt**kla**** Arno aus Holland und die Gebrued** Spenc** und Cam**on aus Kalifornien. Die Wand**ung selbst war eine ziemliche H**ausford**ung; zu Beginn ging es morgens um sieben ohne Fruehstueck (das ein Thema fu** sich!) **steinmal drei Stunden schnurstracks den B**g hoch - und das wenn man bei ein** Ausgangshoehe von 2500 Met**n startet. Puh! Die Ausblicke waren jedoch traumhaft und die Gruppe harmoni**te sup**. Das konnte auch uns** Sup**-Macho-Guide Carlos nicht aend**n ...