Hotel Galindo Panajachel

... grabbed her bag and pulled it
around front, just as Teddy was entering the aisle and felt somebody
grabbing at his pockets. He clamped his hand down and we both hurried
off the bus. After leaving the scene, we found two distinct slashes in
Susan´s daypack. Big, clean cuts that could only be from a knife. Just
goes to show, you can't even trust abuelas. Luckily, we had been smart
that morning and had our passports and the majority of our cash in a ...

... here, spent time cooking, hanging out, dancing, hiking, exploring, swimming, kayaking, pilates-ing, practicing poi (fire spinning), speaking Spanish, and reading. Katherine visited me in mid-August too so we spent a night in a Nature Reserve past San Lucas Toliman, and an evening in Antigua!

Since I have been here, I have visited the three women's cooperatives--Ana with the group Ajbatz'Bal' in San Juan la Laguna; Julia with the group ...

... away but whole hotdogs. And I had three of them on my plate. You should all know by now that I love a good hot dog, but they can go wrong. Really really wrong. If they are boiled in a stew, that is wrong.

2. I went and visited San Simon. He is a really infamous saint in Guatemala, he stays in a house in a community and moves from house to house every year, people go visit him and take him gifts and have ceremonies and whatnot. There are only about 4 San Simon's ...

... organised our tour, found a good place for breakfast, had an awesome dinner (and resolved to come back to the same place for lunch tomorrow!) and then found wifi at ‘Pana Rock’ Panajachel’s answer to hard rock café (they even have knock off Tshirts – if you want one let me know!) All in all a pretty good way to round off a tiring day’s travel! The bizarre thing is realising that the majority of our travel is now complete and ...

... turned out to be more like 2 hours away and we were all ravenous by the time the plates of fried chicken, broccoli and lettuce were put in front of us. To get to the toilet, you had to negotiate through another maize field, but it being dark, Kirsty and I couldn’t find it so went bush toilet which as evidenced the next morning was far safer and cleaner than the actual toilet. As we were settling down for the night, we were joined by a local man and his kid brother ...

... passe la voiture sous un spray anti-? (bacteries, je suppose) et ensuite on nous reclamait des frais pour un pont a peage (on pense) mais nous n avions plus de comptant. Alexandre a donne sa montre en garantie, le temps qu on trouve un guichet automatique. Enfin... nous etions au Guatemala en direction de Tikal. Nous avons aussi ajoute un mot a notre vocabulaire espagnol : Tumulous. Il s agit de l annonce d un immense "speed bump ...

... her has no legal obligation to her and we will never know if he will come back to provide her with anything. She has no help from her family as her parents have passed away. After the house and land is sold, Ana will be left with a 10 foot x 30 foot piece of dirt land. We hope that her 16-year old son will make a living off his learned skills and support the family, but it is a lot of work for one boy ...

... Ob pogledu z vasice Panajachel sta vidna vulkana Toliman (3158m) in za njim vulkan Atitlan (3537m), na desni pa se dviga vulkan San Pedro (3020m). Slednji ima enako ime kot vasica, ki smo jo z ladjico obiskali najprej. San Pedro la Laguna je zelo tradicionalna vasica, kjer so zenske oblecene v tradicionalna oblacila. Na kratkem sprehodu sva lahko opazovala nasade kave, mangova in avokadova drevesa. Podobni sta bili tudi naslednji vasici z imeni apostolov - Santiago in San Antonio.

... the lake was now in sight and from this ariel view we could see what all the fuss was about, as it was the largest lake that i had ever seen and set against the vibrant greens of the vegetation that grows beside it keeps you looking out the window (albeit through the gaps in your fingers but you are looking). In a bus that looks as though its about agile as a dustbin lorry doing speeds that are unbelievable for the size of the thing with another horny love monger letting us all know over ...

... 8220;Squirrel Incident in New York”), was entranced by a pen of baby chickens. Encouraged to hold one by the little Guatemalan man cleaning the cage, she was horrified when the chick did a poo on her hand. “Perhaps now,” said Chris, “you have learned your lesson with all these creatures,” Perhaps.







The next morning, we took another shuttle 1˝ hours to the ...