Hotel Posada Don Juan Matalbatz Coban

... I couldn&#8217;t stop laughing!  Also, we were so packed in this minibus (25 people) that I had to sit on Devin&#8217;s lap.  Mind you there were no shocks left in this van so Devin was bouncing up and down with my extra weight on his lap, on a seat that had a metal rod sticking out of it.<br><br>WARNING:  Mother, you can&#8217;t read the rest of this blog.  Sorry, but I don&#8217;t want to give you a heart attack J  Just know that Devin and I are safe and ...

... lava almost gave us third degree burns. We had some great photos of the experience, but they&#8217;re gone, along with the camera. Yeah&#8230;<br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br> We are ashamed to admit it, but our first trip to McDonald's was perhaps one of the highlights of Antigua. Deprived of any sort of fast food for nearly five months, we hadn&#8217;t been in town long when we demolished ...

... price. Our guide, Aldo, met us at the store along with a half dozen kids selling walking sticks for 5Q. Eventually, after some haggling most of the group were able to get a stick for 2-3Q. Once everyone got the required equipment, we started our trek. <br> <br>Aldo's goal was to have everyone up to the lava flow early enough to enjoy the spectacle and loiter awhile, but he wanted the group off the sharp unstable fresh lava ...

Journée souvenir, faut bien les finir un jour et c'est de plus bientôt la fin du voyage. Chacun y trouve son compte, même si je ne suis pas spécialement d'humeur acheteuse, mais comme d'habitude j'achète plus pour moi que pour les autres... Puis départ pour Cobán, arrivées sur place, on a quelques difficultés à trouver l'hôtel. Il est charmant, avec un joli patio, par contre la chambre est sommaire et une fois dans la salle de bain, on ...

... triple and it´s hard to find a room. Antigua is especially popular, so we crossed our fingers. On the way we hooked up with a couple of whippersnapper students and on the 3rd hotel we got lucky, all 4 of us sleeping in one room. There´s nothing like making friends. It was only a triple, but they had no qualms about shoving an extra bed in there so that none of us could actually move. The following day was Palm Sunday. It marks ...

There is no easy way to get around Guatemala. For almost everything, you have to go through Guatemala City. So there we were, 4 hours out of the city and wanted to get 4 hours on the other side of it. We ended up taking a shuttle the whole way to Coban. It was a long, uncomfortable ride. (Read shuttle as mini-buses with no leg room and uncomfortable seats.) Needless to say, we were happy to get out of the mini bus. We felt a little pressured ...

... re hoping that our van along with the driver didn't skid off the side of the mountain! Maybe 10 mins later our driver is coming down the mountain and we all jump back on the van where he takes us the rest of the way to Coban. Currently we're resting up and trying to plan our day for tom. If all goes as planned we might have some pictures up on the next entry of us heading into a cave. Till next post !

... bed at any time without it having much of a knock on effect at the moment. I am sure that will change in a few days. I climbed aboard a packed minibus with no suspension and off we went, everyone spoke English. There were 6 Americans, 3 french and 2 Israelis. We all got chatting and worked out that we had all paid for the trip at various different prices ranging from US6 - US16 the most competitive price being sold on ...

... made it down, only to realize that we were on a ledge and we still had to go down at least 10 meters to get to the pool. We asked the guide how we were going to get down and he said to jump!!! At this point, I bowed out as I realized that besides the jump, the climb back up to the top of the waterfall to meet the chickens at the top was pretty steep. Chris was male pressured into jumping after the guide and another young man jumped. It was the hardest 33 ...

... beer i´ve ever had. I genuinely, really, regretted spending $4 there. I´d travelled halfway around the world to end up in the this pretentious sh*thole full of the kind of people i hated back home. Never again - time to start picking and choosing experiences a bit more carefully. It was only an hour and involved less money than a pint back in the UK, but it´s oddly memorable for all the wrong reasons - i guess that to discover what you like, you really need to realise what you hate. Tick.