Hotel El Recreo Lanquin Champey
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Stunning Waterfalls & Caves To Explore
For a change I decided to get up early and hitch from Coban to Lanquin (64 km) so that I would have a full day at Semuc Champey. First to stop was Pablo who offered me a ride in the back of his pickup to the small town of San Pedro Carcha (12 km). I spent 30 minutes looking round the town before hitching again, this time with a frail elderly chap, …
Caves of Candelaria
3rd.- Another reasonable day, the weather seems to be a bit more as we expected, that is mostly dry with odd showers. This morning we left to go to the caves of Candelaria and we have also met the bad roads. It started well for about 30 kms and then it was onto dirt roads. The roads were not too bad, similar to driving on a cobbled road most of the …
Being a Tourist: Adventures in Semuc Champey
Last weekend I was a tourist. Maybe I should feel guilty about that, but I don't. There's a lot of talk about travelers vs. tourists, with the assumption being that the former is somehow more in touch with the local people and therefore superior; but let's face it, sometimes it's just plain fun to travel with the purpose being nothing more than to …
5.3.1 Semuc Champey
The main event near Lanquin is Semuc Champey, a natural wonder that I'd not really heard of before I planned my trip. I'm not sure how best to explain it, so will let the pictures do most of the talking. To me, it was a phenomenon whereby the river that flows through the rainforest and settles to create a number of little pools. The geologists amongst you can probably comment as to where the greeny-turquoise colouring of the rocks comes from. It is best if I just describe ...
Amazing adventure
It was a tough ride (sometimes really like that!) about 9 hrs to Lanquin, cuz we took the totally wrong road and it felt that we went half of the way over bumpy "streets" to cross the highlands. A really fantastic experience cuz we saw much more of the country than on the easy normal road. And with an perfect road trip music compilation it's just worth anyway. Finally we got stuck for over an hour because of a repairing of the ...
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