Hospedaje San Francisco San Pedro La Laguna

... Nose. Can you guess what that rock formation looks like? The hike up was grueling and I didnīt wear the appropriate footware. It was worth it because at the top was a group of local Mayans performing some kind of ceremony. They were speaking Tzútujil, the local Mayan dialect so I didnīt even have a chance at understanding. A woman was leading the ceremony and she talked from across an open fire fueled by tree ...

... think of plus some you can’t. The Wal-Mart is called Hiper Paiz but it is owned by Wal-Mart and there are 2 of them the other one is in Zona 3

They have a traditional market that is not for the faint hearted you can by anything there. Too tell what kind of meat you are buying they are nice enough to put the head of the animals on display for you. It is so big I got lost in it and it took me an hour to find my way out. I don’t have many photo of it now however I will.

... to sleep – but we were definitely not heading to the rave and 12 oclock is a late night for us!!!

Lessons learned –

Anwen when tipsy has a tendancy to mis-hear and got very excited by the possibility of paragliding for $7 dollars. Obviously it was $70 which she was much less impressed with. I however would NOT have been going paragliding for $7 (but if we’d heard about it sooner and thought about would have been keen for $70!)

... tasteless, and a large plate of grilled chicken, half and avocado, rice, vegetables all for 20Qs or $2.40. So far no disasters on the eating front or should I say post eating front.

Xela is the second largest town in Guatemala, and sprawls out, however the westerner end with a myriad of Spanish schools, catering for the evergrowing numbers of foreigners who want to learn in a slightly authentic environment, seems pretty self contained and small. The streets ...

... chairs, tables and rabid dogs and flies we were set. The vegetarian dish was about $1.50 for a full plate of rice, beans and veggies. We continued shopping and I bought a ceramic Mayan man and a few scarves. The sky looked a little ominous - impending doom! So we looked for a bar to hide in and just as it started spitting we found one and it was lucky we had. It came down in a torrential pour, floods were forming, lightening and thunder - people were ...

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During this fortnight, our days consisted of waking up to the glorious vista, trotting off to Spanish school for four hours, coming home to do homework during the hottest part of the day, then either relaxing on our rooftop balcony with litro bottles of ice-cold Gallo cervezas taking in the view or heading to The Alegre for an afternoon of football and litro bottles of ice-cold Gallo cervezas.




San Pedro La Laguna, Western Highlands, Guatemala cc_world_tour