Hotel Casa Noble Antigua Guatemala

... girls, Theresia, thought to bring marshmallows, so we roasted them over the lava! They pretty much taste like regular roasted marshmallows but they cook WAY faster over lava! We hung out for about 20 minutes and had to start making our descent. This proved to be difficult as well, maybe not as difficult as the ascent but ********etheless. <br><br>We returned that night tired, cold and wet. Thankfully our friend Kiel (Canada) had made a huge pot of veggie pasta and saved us ...

... our best boots, raincoats, long pants, camera, water and sandwiches we met up at Barca Expeditions shortly before 2 PM. Little did we know, that we would have to wait &#8211; again &#8211; another half hour before being stuffed together with 14 other travellers into a van only suited for 12 people. It is needless to say, that the atmosphere was not that great from the offset. <br><br>Only barely having left Antigua we stopped to fuel and the driver told us to tank ...

... custodian. Here we simply chilled for a few days sipping on fresh mojitos and playing cards. I`ll tell ya, you can´t beat Flor de Canya rum. The best, and I hate rum!<br><br>Exit Grenada, enter Antigua, Guatemala.<br><br>A typically freezing 15hr bus ride later, we arrived in Guatemala City. Keen to get to get away from the street gangs we jumped a bus to Antigua (another great colonial town) where we`ve settled for the past week. This would have to be Bek`s and my ...

... drive south of Antigua and not one of the mountains surrounding Antigua. Our guide met as at the base and we then walked for around and hour and a half up to the volcanoe. It was a particulary hard climb but in the humidity it wasn't exactly easy going. We saw on the way a steam turbine power plant which derives its power from pumping water down several hundred metres of pipes into the side of the volcanoe which then turns it to steam and powers the turbines at the surface. A great ...

... horse ****. For those that cannot make the hike by foot, there is the option to take a horse part of the way up and down and believe you me there were a number of BFAs (normally an acronym to describe Big Fat Americans, but can be used for anyone with a Big Fat ****) that needed the services of a four legged beast, who craned and sagged under the unusual weight. The afternoon was amazing and we were incredibly lucky to not get rained on. We saw lightening ...

... immer leben in der Bude. (Was natürlich als fleißiger Student der sehr viel neues lernen muss nicht so gut weil etwas laut ist. Das Essen ist einfach aber gut. Hauptsächlich Reis, schwarze Bohnen, Kochbanane und halt viel Gemüse. Hin und wieder auch etwas Fleisch aber nicht so viel. Man wird satt und ansonsten muss man ja auch nur das Haus verlassen und kann für wenig Geld auf der Straße essen , da wird gegrillt oder es gibt alles möglich in Teig gegart. Popusa ...

... liquor. We hitched a ride on several tuk-tuks back to the house and then got in our bathing suits. We sat by the pool while having a few beers before grilling out. Thomas and Bri were the grill-masters for the night and the rest of us prepared the food inside. It was nice to be able to cook for ourselves since it's been over three months since we have been able to do so. Afterwards some people from S@S that were staying at a nearby house came over to ...

... negligible product of an expensive water treatment project side by side really gave me that impression. Great experience all round. (Just realized I didn't take any pictures of the toxically neon green water, sorry) I've had some assignments due and the like. Had a Health and Poverty midterm today. Well, besides all that stuff, things have been getting interesting (just remembered I mentioned this in a previous blog entry). Lent's a ...

We took an overnight b*s from Panama to San Jose and stayed one night there watching some films.The next day we caught our flight to Guatemala and arrived at the airport as planned, three hours before the three supersisters. This was now three countries in three days with three diferent currencies. The three hour wait was almost unbearable as excitement reached fever pitch, but Eimear, Lorna and Noirin finally landed. After several minutes of high pitched screaming we made ...

... the tables!!! <br><br> <br><br><br>Sunday 14th - I went for breakfast with Adrian (which included the worst cup of coffee have ever had!!!) and then he went to catch the bus back to Antigua and I took a taxi (in Panajachel all the taxis are golf carts!) to the nature reserve to find some monkeys....there were lots of spider monkeys so I watched them for a while and got totally munched on by sand flies. Then I went for a wander ...