Hotel Casona de la Isla Flores

... have bumped into 7 people from El Retiro, a guy we had dinner with in Antigua, plus a girl from Mexico and the 2 Norwegians that i met on my first night - no small wonder that i am not speaking much Spanish! I am eating so much lovely food that i think i am starting to put on the pounds - but it tastes so good and you know i can´t leave anything on the plate!<br><br>Leaving tomorrow - heading the Caribean way x x lots of love x <br><br>

... in Guatemala City, me and the Argentinean woman had to wait for our ride, but we were glad when it arrived. We ended up sharing the ride with this Canadian, who had finally arrived in Guatemala after a strenuous journey with cancelled flights and without luggage. He travelled with his little Chihuahua and was very weird. Finally, I just excused myself and started listening to my iPod. When I returned home, it was to find a somewhat disturbed Elian. I turned out that she had ...

... br><br>Flores is a pretty little village on the Petan lake in Guatemala. We stayed in a hotel called Villa De Lago, which in a great location and has a great view over the lake. We actually had hot water and had our first hot shower in Mmmm about 9 days..........yipee.<br><br>Flores is like a little Spanish village set on water. Lots of different coloured houses/buildings with cobbled streets. There isn't a great deal to ...

... looking curiously at me, looking curiously at them. This was another one of those times where I felt like I had seen something special, most other people I spoke to only saw monkey high up in the trees like I did at the gorge in Mexico. <br><br> The view from the pyramid was cool, high above the canopy I could see the endless jungle, and sticking up from the top of the trees, a few other large pyramids. It reminded ...

... over the river accelerating you to the moment you have to jump. On the guide&#8217;s command my heart beating wildly, I slipped off and hit the water feet first. I&#8217;m not sure of my finesse, but it wasn&#8217;t painful just cold and I almost lost my bikini top, but luckily managed to sort that before emerging back up out of the water before swimming/ fighting to the bank perpendicular to the strong river current. The adrenaline was now pumping<br><br>Next we were ...

I woke up at 430 am today and headed out to Tikal National Park. It´s the largest excavated site in all of the americas. It´s a bunch of mayan temples. the tallest one being 70 meters high. it really is quite incredible. I got to learn about the mayans when i went caving so it was interesting to connect all the information with an actual tangible area. <br>except i looked like i had run two ...

After the week on the boat we stank but we opted to press on to Tikal near Flores in Guatemala rather than take a night to refresh and shower and clean our clothes. <br><br>Dave also decided to buy tickets for us on the cheapest and longest bus ride to Flores.<br><br>When the bus arrived it was already totally full and boiling hot and there wasn't very much standing room for the ten or so passengers that got on at the Rio ...

... road and having to<br>choose the better of the best paths. Yeah, I'm sure everyone has met<br>this point at one time or another in their life, but it does not happen<br>often, and it's important to remember that it's never a bad spot to be<br>in. <br><br>Predating all of this was an e-mail from Global Vision<br>International (GVI) saying that the director would essentially be quite<br>interested in an interview at some point during the week. Well, on the<br>day I got around to ...

... surely the silhouette of a turkey? This worried me: what are these jungle tukeys and should I be afraid of them? What do you do if faced by an angry jungle turkey? <br><br>I didn't have time to mull it over, we had arrived. Clambering out ungracefully, we made our way to the gate. We passed two silent guards holding pump-action shotguns in the shade of a tree. It was 8am and already it was sweltering. The man at the gate said ...

... the guide we spoke to on the bus had been working there 6 years and hadn't ever actually seen any more than the back end of an ocelot disappearing into the undergrowth!! <br>In any case, Tikal was beautiful at 6am...and we did see a couple of Spider Monkeys sitting in the trees!!! The ruins are surrounded by jungle so its a fab place to wander about in and the jungle makes it feel like there's noone else there. <br><br>We walked around the whole place ...