Hotel Casablanca Huehuetenango

... ruinas. Después visitamos y tocamos un tour de Museo de Historia y Architecturia. Nosotros fue allí por dos horas. Después, comemos almuerzo a un poco heladario. Yo amo helado, lo es muy muy muy delicioso. A la una en la tarde salimos Huehue. Nosotros empezamos en nuestro viaje a Ixcan Jungla, el viaje toco mucho tiempo.

... where our sheet metal roof began twisting and shuddering. <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br > We briefly contemplated evacuating, considering the dilapidated nature of our casa - and the fact we were now perched on the side of a volcano - but we stood our ground, faced our fears and, once again, survived.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><b r><br><br> Like with any small town, gossip was ...

... ridding the train to work, it only makes me laugh and think what the hell was I thinking! We drove back to Lanquin and managed to find the hostel. I decided to sleep in my hammock for the few nights we would be here. I havent slept in it yet, so if Jette is going to get her value for money, I better start to use it! We also booked in for the buffett. Fish was the special tonight. I smashed down three huge plates of food to the amazement of people around us. If only they could see what I ...

... place. Afterwards, two friends of them (who also had offered us their house on the internet) came, and they took us to the market and afterwards to a "Mirador" wher, if it hadn´t been for the slupid clouds, we had been able to seen some Volcanoes. Then, we went again to the Station to pick up two other people that were coming to sleep also in Jorge´s house. They were a man from Germany and the girlfrind from Chile, both of ...

... made before the processions. "Alfrombras", "carpet" or "mat" in Spanish, are displays made on the streets, usually of either sawdust and coloured chalk or large pine needles (err, like pine leaves?), but usually fruits, vegetables and other such things are used for decoration (if you cycle back a few entries there are problems a few pictures of them). So the "alfombras" are made and then paraded straight over ...

... loaves of bread in the last couple of weeks. THIS IS HOT! We had another uncomfortable ride from Lanquin to Antigua, and arrived mid day. It was dull and cloudy, an excellent day to travel, but masked the beauty of the city upon our arrival. Thinking that we were getting pretty savey about picking out the perfect hostel by now, we walked around the city for over an hour with our heavy packs hanging off our shoulders, climbing up ...

... being prepared for the building of the hotel, a major historical site was discovered. Whatever had been on that site before, including a big church, had been destroyed during an earthquake. As the workers dug, they found all sorts of valuable relics - a trasure trove. The hotel people decided to incorporate the findings into the design of the hotel and create a huge museum of sorts in the garden. We wandered around for at least 2 hours and ...

... booty like Beyonce. It was strange because I found myself staring but wondering if you were aloud to stare after all this is supposed to be a conservative christian country, anyway in case you were wondering I kept staring. We would have made a night of it but the owner of our hostel insisted on staying up so he could open the door to the hostel for us. He was so nice, always saying ´My house is your house´. Well we got back an hour and a half late, it reminded me of the days ...

... dress and traditions. And it was the Mayan presence and their bedazzling markets that made our 9 days here the most interesting leg of the entire trip from a "we are experiencing another culture" perspective. We had left La Libertad, El Salvador early in the morning on September 29 which allowed us to arrive in Antigua, Guatemala's former capital, by mid afternoon. With cobblestone streets, beautifully restored colonial-era buildings and towering volcanoes flanking it on 3 ...