Hospedaje Casa Elena San Pedro La Laguna

... the world. I am really glad I decided not to go into famine relief of something like that.

The only think I don't like about the lake is the bus travel. I used to think I was at least a little bit of an adrenaline junkie, but traveling down the mountains in a Chicken Bus is just too much for me. The roads are so narrow and turn so often, that the buses literally have to do a three point turn every time they go around a curve just so they don't fly off the side of ...

... It's
been so intense! We have loads of homework, and we often do it
together, seeing as we only have one dictionary. It´s from Susan's date
and it was published in the year 1960. As in 29 years before the Berlin
Wall came down. Seriously? So, we have a great time looking stuff up in
it, as it's missing lots of modern words like, internet, popcorn, color
television, civil rights, abortion... ok fine we're kidding. Well not
really; it's super old!

K, now ...

... me. Taboo and I are still hanging out. We found a cheap place to stay (three dollars a night) so it´s tough to move on.
We haven´t done much since we´ve been here. One day we rented kayaks and paddled across the lake to check out other towns. The waves were whipped up by the afternoon winds and we ended up getting splashed a bit. It was a sunny day so no real harm done.
On another day we decided to hike up ...

... carry heavy basket of stuff on their heads. Most of them are self employed the men work in the fields the woman takes the fruits of the labor to market to sell them. It's a hard life but they are happy people.

The regular Guatemalan people are mostly middle class they all have cars and own there own home. They have big mall with 3 floors and it has a huge Wal-Mart takes up most of the first floor it also has a big movie theater in it. The food court has every restaurant you ...

... a fire making very hesitant conversation with some 1st year Guatemalan students. After a bit we began to realise that we weren’t really at the place we wanted to be – we were at a rave – oops! Luckily an Austalian bloke pointed us down the road and we caught the last 10ish songs of the live latin music – even stretching to a bit of a dance. ON our way to bed we bumped into the Australian again who seemed less than impressed with our ...

... It’s a pretty social hostel, not too big and closes up at 10 pm, and the bars/ clubs in town close at 1 am, but if you know where to go (the pool and bar) you can get lock ins to whatever time the last person falls off their chair. Otherwise you can live quiet cheaply, there are market stalls selling three tacos for 10 Qs in other words -$1.20 or you can go to a local restaurant, get soup, huge pile of tortillas, which in Guatemala are thick and rather heavy and ...

... 45 minutes and we were worried that we were going to miss the action of the markets! Eventually our bus driver cracked it and pushed his way through - we loved him!

We hopped off at Chi Chi and cruised the streets of the market - splitting into our usual groups. Money was a priority for most so that was our first stop. We bought a few things then went in search of food. Down a few back streets we managed to find the local outlets - a few ...

... down dusty dirt track, through vegetable gardens, passing farmers, horses, chickens and dogs along the way, the huge Volcán San Pedro looming in one direction and the lake glistening in the morning sun in the other.










Then sitting down to our lesson in our 'classroom' – a little thatched roof palapa (open-sided, thatched-roof hut) by the lake.






San Pedro La Laguna, Western Highlands, Guatemala cc_world_tour