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Nebaj, Quiché, montagnes Cuchumatanes
Avant de mettre la cap sur Nebaj, je vais à l'hôtel Casablanca pour le petit déj. Le dimanche c'est buffet de 8hres à 11hres. J'arrive dans cette jolie cours et mes oreilles entendent la musique très plaisante de l'orchestre live ! ça joue bien, pas trop fort et c'est vraiment agréable.
Il y a déjà pas mal de monde et l'activité bat …
Trekking in the Ixil Triangle
After spending a couple of nights in Antigua with Daniel the Herbalist, Proud Mary and George the creative writer, and then a day in Panajachel on Lago de Atitlan with our old friend Don, we moved on to the northern mountain town of Nebaj for 4 days. Nebaj stands at the south-western point of the Ixil Triangle, an area encompassing a large number …
Hike to La Torre & the loss of the rucksack :-(
... that had been on the microbus with us very kindly pointed out that we were actually where we needed to be to get to the hotel and that we should get off the chicken bus. So it stopped after moving about 5 meters to let off the silly gringos.
That’s when my heart went in to my mouth and I realised I had left the rucksack on the microbus which by that time had driven off. There were traffic police directing traffic on the corner where we had got off so ...
Todos Santos, La Torre and the lost backpack!
... she was really suffering but that also meant we then walked slower which was good for me. We hiked for around 2 hours all up, up and up and through some really interesting and beautiful vegetation and countryside and at every step we had a better and better view of the surrounding countryside and all the massive volcanoes that were in view.
When we finally reached the top it was an amazing sight, we could see for miles and miles and the only time ...
Terryifying bus journey
This morning my finger is still really hurting, although the swelling has gone down a bit and I can bend it a bit (although not properly), it still really hurts. I thought I'd try and find a doctor but in a reality I’m not sure they’re going to say anything more than a pharmacist can say so instead we went to another pharmacy and got some more tablets, I’m going to give it another couple of days and if still no great ...