Hotel Cascata Huehuetenango

We woke up with anticipations of what we were going find when we arrived at the mechanics. It was a little bit of a maze getting back to the little town where Wesley had broke down... but we made it. Although, we arrived to see that our orange little VW was still there (Thank God). Jose the mechanic had shown us what once was an engine, but now was a bunch of parts. He did assure me that on Wednesday it will be back ...

... favourite pastime in San Pedro and you couldn&#8217;t sneeze without everyone else hearing about it within the hour. We began calling San Pedro 'The SP' as in the TV show 'The OC', and enjoyed daily catch ups on the latest dramas and ongoing storylines. <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br > At one stage we even considered starting a weekly gossip rag featuring all the regular town ...

... eat back in Australia before my stomach shrunk, I swear about 4-5 weeks ago back home I could have eaten nearly twice as much. The hostel is run by anglos, and all the people here are anglos. I´ll probably try to avoid places like this when I get on my own, apart from when I get to points where I get bored or in need of some company. After dinner they were playing techno music and all sorts of **** in the bar that made me feel sick and like a bogan! The hostel is located in this ...

... are living in Barcelona at the moment. We all went to have a tipical Guatemalteco lunch, and afterwards to Jorge´s place, wher we were talking the whole evening. I foubd ir super, all of them were incredibly friendly and I had a lot of fun, even if my stpmach was still suffering a bit from the mexican food... The day after, Simon and Kathy (the couple from Germany-Chile) and we two took a bus to Panajachel, in the Atikan lake.

... went on everday last week, with the highlights being Thursday and Friday. Actually, Thursday the entire city (no joke) stays up and makes "alfrombras" for Friday, and even our family made one! I got to help a bit too. By Sunday everything was pretty definitively over. All week the central park was just swarming with people, totally unsuitable for reading or anything. Last Sunday I quite enjoyably got a half ...

... of hostel after hostel but not finding one that quite satisfied. At one quite luxurious accommodation, the secretary informed us the price was 125. We couldn't believe it! What a deal, the place was absolutely gorgeous with marble floors, cable TV and granite counter tops. Chad imagined jumping up and down on the bed like Lloyd in Dumb and Dumber, yelling "we'll take it". We handed over 125 Quatzales to the smartly dressed ...

... amazed by what we saw. All we could think of was to remember to tell Hugh and Jane about this place and recommended that they stay here at least 1 night as a real treat whenever they decide to visit Guatemala. They wouldn´t be sorry!!! On January 11, we took 2 buses to Quetzaltenango (Xela, Shay-la) to meet our travelling friends Pat and Gail MacDonald who will be living there for 4 months, studying Spanish and doing some volunteer work.

... I used to come home drunk late and wouldnt want mum to hear me, we were so apologetic but he still gave us a warm welcome. The next morning we jumped on a bus to the town of Lanquin. Nearby are some amazing aqua blue pools set in a valley. The water was amazingly clear and bright aqua. We swam around in the pools and trekked up a hike to get a view from above. The hike made me realise how unfit I am. After cruisin around the pools we went back to çlanquin to a cool hostel ...

... Antigua was easy to like and we immediately placed it on our "top 3" of cities we had been to on the trip. The area around El Arco (The Arch) de Santa Catalina in particular had enough charm to rival Europe's finest neighborhoods, and is no doubt one of the reasons why Antigua was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. The number of tourists in Antigua also rivals that found in Europe's great cities, with the year-round spring climate (we wore sweaters at night-a ...

... dad and gran - bearing in mind Ana can speak English but her mum and dad can't. So it was quite awkward at the dinner table that first night. Welly put his foot in it by starting to eat dinner before saying grace, and got the evils from her dad, not a good start! We had dinner and then went upstairs to study (trying to get some patter together to speak to the parents!). Studied from 8 ...