Hotel La Posada Coban

... are large buses that are decorated to the nine with crazy cartoon characters, Jesus pictures, and off-the-wall sayings.  They travel from city to city, picking up anyone, anywhere.  The fee is very small (US $1-5) and they are usually quite packed.  We traveled on these for part of the trip but then realized we would have to take the minibuses for the rest of the journey, since the roads are sooooo steep and narrow the ‘chicken buses’ couldn ...

... regular hostal, a finca/farm, a hippy commune, and... well, it was just amazing. Loved it entirely. <br><br>Made it out to Semuc Champey one day, which didn´t disappoint. It´s a little difficult to describe in writing, but it´s basically a series of turqouise (sp?) pools divided by limestone bridges and small cliffs, all set in the most tropical environment you could imagine. No joke: it´s like a fairy tale. It´s just magical. Good times all round. Besides Semuc ...

... second hard clothes markets that put San Pedro&#8217;s trucks to shame. Many a day was wasted trawling through the racks, munching on boiled corn coated in chilli and cheese, to the cries of &#8220;Ropa, ropa, ropa, cinco, cinco, cinco&#8221; ("clothes, clothes, clothes, five, five, five").<br><br><br><br><br> As we said, one of the main reasons for stopping in Antigua was to climb ...

... piano player and his partner is a Japanese singer/musician. We were the only diners that late into the evening and missed the live musical entertainment. Jose and Kaori decided to hold a 2 hour private concert for us of his and her compositions, some modern pop and classics. The food and atmosphere was so good, nothing could have topped this night in Antigua. <br><br>Jose and Kaori are looking for a roommate to share their house in Antigua. Inquire at the cafe!

... especially as we arrived for Easter week (Semana Santa). Basically loads of processions of guatemalans dressed like arabs, carrying floats of Jesus and Mary. People stay up all night making alfombras which are decorative sawdust/flower carpets for the procession to walk over. WTF. Nice though... Rahuls has had a pretty interesting week aside from all of this... On the second day of Spanish school he had his bag nicked, on ...

... and watched the bats fly out of the cave, hundreds of bats leaving for the night, I tried to make the bat man symbol but couldn't pull it off, We piled in the back of a pick up truck that we first had to push start down a hill and made it back to the town. We went to a local eatery and 10 of us walked in the staff was either very happy or very ****** off either way the food was good.

... velmi lisi. Robusta je spise strom nez maly kerik. Sklizne jsou 2-3rocne, z jednoho keriku se sklidi 1-2kg kavy. Nejkvalitnejsi kava roste ve vyssich nadmorskych vyskach, takze cim vyse tim lepe a take musi rust ve stinu. Take jsem zde poprve videla avokadovy strom. Behem prohlidky jsem nebyla schopna fotit, prisla na me nevolnost, hodila sem to za palmu a malem sem omdlela.. ale jinak dobry. Po prohlidce jsem dostali ...

... of days later we climbed Agua Volcano which just outside of Antigua (3750m). At bottom we met a local farmer Jose Luis who ended up being our guide and had to endure plenty of spanglish chat. It was an amazing hike but we ended up climbing into the clouds, so no grand vistas. While in Antigua we managed to catch up with a couple of fellow travellers we had met earlier, and good times were had. Loads of spanish chat over beers....

... The sunset was amazing and thats when the lava looked the best. Seeing it flow just as it was getting dark was kind of mesmerizing and i didn't really want to leave when the tour guide started wrapping things up in a hurry, but as we started the descent i understood why he was in such a rush, the path down was full of people slipping over and landing on their asses and the darker it got the more dangerous it was. I'm pretty surprised nobody gets ...