Hotel Posada de Don Rodrigo Panajachel Antigua Guatemala

... br><br>-At the market, you can find remote controls right next to the non-refrigerated eggs. Bag slashing is common. <br><br>- Antigua (which means Old) was once the capital of Guatemala. <br><br>- If you are a foreigner, you are wasting your time trying to blend in. There is absolutely no chance. <br><br>- Macadamia nuts were brought to GUA from AUS. The nuts, which grow in trees, have skin nourishing qualities in addition to making excellent chocolates ...

... stones that often would not provide any firm hold. For every step you had to watch your steps and further up you even had to identify which path to take, because nothing seemed evident. I eventually ended up behind this couple, where he constantly was poking the lava to make sure that it was firm and would not break when we stepped on it. Even though that him doing this reassured me a little bit, my ground feeling was still that this actually is quite dangerous ...

... my rid accident!!) - boring........!<br><br>We spent a lot of the time with Erik and Ricard. The portions of food are huge and so cheep!! I certainly put on a bit of weight while I was there.<br><br>We went to the market one day and stocked up on knickers (seems there are phantom knickers nickers wherever I go - no jokes about losing my knickers please!!!)<br><br>One of the main reasons that people go to Antigua is to clime Volcano ...

... offerings. Dinner plans were proposed, but on our walk to meet Max, suddenly the entire street went black. The street lamps quickly flicked back on, but storefronts and homes remained in darkness and silence. No one seemed very alarmed by the blackout as there was a huge lightning storm so businesses closed their gates and we started heading back to Monica's house. I was grateful to all be together.<br><br ...

... and other gross stuff, ew she has the swine flu now)<br>and almost broke her ankle, we eventually made it to the Plaza Mayor.<br>This plaza, supposedly once the center of Central American urban life,<br>was now filled with shoeshiners, old men chatting (presumably, bec old<br>men are the same everywhere) about the weather to each other, and LOTS<br>of pigeons. And adorable babies feeding them. Despite the fact that it<br>wasn´t very pretty or impressive, we sat and ...

... an active volcano (admittedly with loads of others and BFAs) hike three days through amazing vistas at every turn and chill by an amazing volcanic lake at Lago de Atitlan. The people are colourful, the traditional Mayan dress is a riot of colours, and on the whole friendly and helpful, but... I&#8217;m not feeling it. However, I&#8217;m not complaining... it totally beats working and living in London, so please don&#8217;t see this as a moan and next week I could ...

... I had gotten there so early in the morning. (As far as I gather, both travelers and parasites like to sleep in a bit while on vacation.)<br><br>After a great night of card games with two Swedes, a Finn, a Brit and a Saba (for those of you who are now thinking ¨where is a Saba from?¨...that is not actually a nationality---that was the woman´s name...I just can´t remember for the life of me where she was from) I made my way down to the gorgeous city of ...

After a rough and rocky 4 hour shuttle ride, we arrived in the beautiful and mystical valley of San Pedro. The views driving in were amazing, our friendly driver pointed out each town nestled in by the lake and stopped for us to take photos from above. He reccommended a little Hotel on the main street which ended up being really cheap and clean with an outstanding view of the entire lake. We were mixed between being ...

The group continuing with the tour left at 4am, so most of us got up to say goodbye. The group was leaving in two separate vehicles and the second vehicle took ages to arrive so we didn't get back to bed till after 5am. The rest of us left in Antigua had breakfast together at 10am. My camera had disappeared so I spent most of the day walking the streets of Antigua being given the wrong directions to the ...

... water falls; was good fun and very relaxing. The lodge is a sprawling area of cabinas and dorms, with a great little bar restaurant that does probably the best buffet i've ever had. Some friends from Antigua came up as well so it was a good laugh. First thing we did was see the BAT CAVES!!!!!! I think the photos will say enough for you to get the picture but i'll explain briefly. To start with ...