Hotel Ciudad Vieja Guatemala City

... Gearing up for tourism with the money that tourism has already brought to this region. They claim no poverty here in Peten because of tourists and I can believe it. Other areas of Guatemala are not so lucky. Guatemala City is purported to be the ugliest city in Central America with the highest crime rate. True. And the drive to the hotel where Jim & Rose will stay ...

... very loud and very pushy but we eventually managed to get through them. There were seven of us altogether including the two of us so it was a nice number. Our guide lead us up the mountain which led to the volcano stopping along the way for water breaks and to show us some of the sights. Our Spanish lessons came in handy here as your man spoke no English. I felt very proud of myself, was able to understand the majority of what he was saying - yeay! The ...

... Vecina stavb je zelo nizkih, saj so gradnjo prilagodili nemirnim tlem te pokrajine. Ker je Antigua znana kot verski center Gvatemale, lahko vidis kar nekaj cerkva. V eni izmed njih<br> (La Merced), je tudi zanimiva fontana, ki velja za najvecjo fontano v Srednji Ameriki. Vecino cerkev so morali ponovno obnavljati, zaradi nenehnih potresov, ki so jih dodobra ...

... within 2 hours! Oh well got me a passport stamp :D). One of them was heading onto Costa Rica, he took the &#8216;mask&#8217; photo which greatly amused airport workers who were walking by at the time! The other was flying onto Guatemala as well and coming to Antigua to teach English for a month &#8211; he was fresh out of sixth form and looked petrified. Anwen and I did a reassuring mothering style act until he asked if we&#8217;d been travelling before and we had ...

... time before my 2:30 pick for Pacaya, I decided to tour the ruins of Convento de las Capuchinas. The entrance fee was 30Q and I must be frank it was not worth that fee. Maybe once they complete the planned museum then it would be worth the price of admission. The gardens were not as impressive as the ones at the Monasterio San Francisco. Although the fountain was functioning, it still did not compare to the massive remains of the fountain at the ...

We flew out on the 20th of Feb for 3 months pottering down Central America and started in Orlando with the scary fast rides of Universal and Islands of Adventure. We will leave Wet and Wild for our return to the UK. From Cancun we took a bus to Merida and began a loop looking at the ancient Maya. Uxmal was so impressive in the brilliant sunshine 35 degrees with vultures wheeling over head and brilliant flashes of blue Grackles (the size ...

Nu erum vid buin ad vera 4 daga i Antigua eda a heimaslodum Siggu. Thetta er mjog fallegur og notalegur baer uppi i fjollum og umhverfid i kringum baeinn er mjog fallegt en hann er umkringdur 3 storum eldfjollum. Thetta var hofudborg Guatemala thar til hun eydilagdist i jardskjalfta. Thad er toluvert af turistum herna sem gerir thetta ad dyrasta baenum herna i Guatemala svo madur getur kannski ...

We checked out zona 1 today in Guat city. It´s impossible to know where you are in this city. It´s split into zones and all the streets are numbered, so there are 14 avenida uno´s etc.You have to know which zone you are in. We managed to get on a bus going to town but had absolutely no idea where we were when we got off. Stumbled across ...

... rationale? I'm planning to audit an econ class I took last semester this coming fall, because I found it all really interesting but didn't retain much from it. I thought that perhaps this econ would be similar enough to the other to make auditing the class unnecessary, but it's actually pretty disimilar. I'll probably keep doing some of the readings and drop in on the class a few times, but I figure that it's probably just added stress that I don't really need. Jay

Holidays, of course, are the busiest times to travel, but if you go right through the eye of the storm, i.e. Christmas or New Year's Day, then it's like the sleep of the dead. You can walk through any air terminal and be almost alone. Everybody's already home doing it with family. Sometimes you can even use frequent-flyer miles if they don't black-out the whole season for general principles. I used United, a fly-buddy by-product of all those ...