Hotel Casa Duranta Coban

... in the middle of the waterfall). John went up the rope through the waterfall, I opted for the ladder. Later, there was a deep pool, with just enough space to climb up the wall of the cave and jump from a small ledge a few meters up. Overall, the caves were pretty fun.

When we were finished with the caves, we headed back out, and grabbed a tube. Walking up the river, we stopped to have a go on the rope swing over the river before arriving at ...

... have been obvious when we walked it--the neon straws on teh counter, the purple butterflies on the wall, the conspicuous absence of women and over gelled, over dressed, over cologned men checking themselves out in the dancefloor mirror. We had not been looking for Bargé, we had been asking for Bar Gay. We were in Xelas premeir gay nightspot, and from the looks of it, the gay community in Xela was not particually a force to be reconded with, bless thier ...

... rooms.  They were right next to the river so you could swim or do some inner tubing.  It was full of backpackers and we ran into a couple that we had meant in Coban from Vancouver.  That night we enjoyed the all you can eat American buffet.  They had everything you could imagine from meatloaf to potato salad.  It was really good and very filling.

The next day we just had a lazy day by the river.  Devin and I both got a ton of work done and just enjoyed the sun.  It was a nice day ...

... Gallo.

The afternoon consists of some Euchre, Whiffle ball and getting the lay of the land. This is giong to be our home town for the next 5 days. It´s a very small city. Town. Village? Less than 5K people. It´s probably 10 blocks by 10 blocks. There is a nice market where we can get all sorts of street meats and a very populated city square ...

Lonely Planet names the road from Todos Santos (the last city we were in) to Coban as the most beautiful drive in Guatemala, even though it is extremely windy, mountainous, and only partly paved.  Devin and I were going to skip it because we didn't think poor Wesley was up to the task but since he broke down in Huehue we thought we’d give it a shot on the 'chicken buses.’

The ‘chicken buses,’ as the tourists affectionately call ...

... my body when they said they didn´t have any space in the dorms, but they certainly had a lot of hamac space. Wasn´t looking forward to the dark and slightly long walk back into town with my pack. So yeah, I stayed in a hamac. Bad sleep. Pretty cold. But the morning brought enough reason to stay for another 3 days. Absolutely beautiful setting. Bordered by the lush and limestone mountains with a river running through the foot of it, El Retiro was somewhere between ...

... hut looking down on the river very nice. We sat in the hammocks and Danielle went inot photo mode takeing pics. That night we went on a caving tour it was really interesting to see the rock formations and the stalagmites and stalagtites, don't ask me which are which I was a history major. At the end of the tour it was dusk and we sat at the end of the cave and turned out the ...

... nemohl vstat ani z postele. Navic k tomu jeste mzilo a byla pekna kosa. Vyrazili jsem tedy ve 3 do tovarny na kavu, al e vzhledem ke spatnemu pocasi, nas odkazali na pzodejsi hodinu a lepsi pocasi. Meli jsme stesti a v 11h sli na prohlidku kavove plantaze. Ted trocha informaci: 2 druhy kavy- arabica a robusta arabica - je kvalitnejsi, zname 600druhu robusta - mene kavalitni, ale obsahuje vice kofeinu. tyto dve rostliny se od ...

... place in Guatemala he mentioned Semuc Champey and Lanquin and El Retiro hotel. We found out that we could go on a guided daytrip with breakfast and lunch provided to Semuc Champey and a Bat Cave from Coban so we made arrangements to see what Ross was talking about. We left early in the morning after a filling breakfast and travelled along a painfully rough road for several hours. But it was worth it! Semuc Champey is a beautiful place with a gorgeous ...

... went tubing/beer-drinking down the river and then just hung out for the rest of the afternoon. After a while, a bunch of us headed down the road, about a mile out of town, to the Lanquin caves. The plan was to sneak in after the guards had left for the night and watch the bats fly out at sunset. The sneaking in part didn't work, but the bats were incredible-- an endless squeaking swarm that flapped around you but never touched you.

The next morning I went ...