El Portal Lanquin
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, Semuc Champey Lanquin, Guatemala
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After our epic 5 day hike through the jungle to El Mirador, we caught a shuttle from Flores to Lanquin which proved to be our most painful shuttle ride yet. I don't think the fact that we were coming out of 6 nights of sleep deprivation helped, but it seemed that our driver felt the need to stop every half an hour to concede to his highly demanding bodily functions and desires. Every time he stopped, someone would question, "Que Paso Amigo?" (What's happening man?) to which he would quietly r...
Samuc Champey, Guatemala chillwithjoe
The best way to travel in Guatemala is via shuttle bus. The prices are fair and they have a pretty good network to get you from one stikin' corner of the country to the next. In case you didn't know, Guatemala is pretty good and the points of interest are pretty spread apart! So...we took the shuttle from San Pedro all the way to Lanquin. In total it took us about 10 hours to get there and that includes a 2 hour pit stop in....ANTIGUA...AGAIN! Thanks to this little stop, we learned that the v...
Lanquin, Guatemala farrahfig
Semuc is stunning, all turquoise pools and ridiculously good views. Definitely worth the mosquitos and traversing the "road" from Lanquin. Our driver had questionable music tastes, but singing "by the rivers of babylon" distracted from the 9km of being bounced around in a pick-up!
Semuc Champey, Guatemala travellingfi
Transportation to Coban was interesting, but anticipated. In a MICRO-BUS, which should seat 15 people, we had 22 passengers, the ayudante, a baby (ver well behaved!) wrapped in a cloth, the driver, and 6 huge bags of potatoes, 5 baskets of produce, and passengers' luggage. We would have not fared well at all if we slipped into a ditch, because we would have tumbled ! But no, I am not surprised at how many people fit into that little shuttle, when some just stood in the doorway. Neither was it...
Semuc Champey, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala yoomsterTravel Blogs Nearby
... la gente las caza para comèrselas, y
vende la sangre como equivalente al viagra! Por la tarde decidimos descansar
de tanta búsqueda, y despuès de ver la playa por arriba
decidimos acercarnos un poco más. El resultado es una tarde de
relax total, de mar y solecito. La verdad es que sienta muy bien, y nos
damos cuenta que estos parèntesis de descanso no están siendo
precisamente ...
... start our activities.
First one up: tubing down the Rio Cahabon. This was nothing like tubing down the James, for starters, the river didn´t smell like **** upon entering the water and secondly, it only took about 45 minutes to float almost 2 miles! The water level was HIGH due to the recent rain, but it made it tons of fun along the way. Noah, one of the hostel dogs, tagged along and swam almost the whole way...the time that she decided not to swim, she jumped up on Farrah but ...
... our running shoes and the future odor of our cabana, we fastened our flip flops to our feet and played follow the leader to the rope swing.
Granted, we knew we were in for an action packed day, but the tour guides really couldn´t have had any less enthusiasm about these mini-adventures. It was as if the recipe for a fun tour was perfected and presented and when going through the calculated motions ...
... 10 hours and 4 ginger ales later. This is where the miracle lies - 3 hours have vanished into thin air. Rather, I wish they did. Here are the Top 5 hightlights of what we did instead:
1) Detailed yet repetitive driving tour of 3 city blocks in Guatemala City...clearly looking for something or someone we never found. Tour included driving in reverse on a busy 3 lane street and narrowly escaping collisions. Tourists: terrified.
2 ...
... and then another 20 minutes walking down little dirt tracks, we made it to this tiny, black/dark brown teeny little beach..........we made most of it while we were there and topped up on the old tans!! There was this really cute little girl and her brother on the beach. She was dressed in traditionally Mayan style attire, so I thought "Arrhh, that´d make a nice photo". After posing for me all sweetly and nice, the little girl ...
Lake Atitlan, Western Highlands, Guatemala kelmo
... one flat one!!
After a massively bumpy ride through the amazing Guatemalan hills, we arrived at El Retiro in Lanquin.
El Retiro is an eco lodge set in the mountains in Lanquin. It was just the perfect setting. It hasx a river running through it and on our first day, we all went tubing. Its just to amazing here. Its like a retread/lodge type place. Cassie and myself are staying in a wooden hut with a hammock outside. Its ...
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