Hotel & Restaurante De La Abuela Coban

... place to be stranded. <br><br>9:30AM - Entire tour with exception of drugged girl is ready to go in back of pick up truck. <br>9:40AM - Drugged girl arrives late and without her camera. <br>9:50AM - I tell story about drugged girl losing ATM card the prior day while drugged girl walks to fetch said camera. Not even a fast walk. This girl was unbelievable. <br><br>Finally - SEMUC CHAMPEY to make it all worth it (next entry, por favor)<br>

... a 4<br>person dorm. You can go tubing (sitting in an inner tube) and float down the river, there are a few mild rapids though and rocks so the guy that took us out would shout 'bum up' near the rocks. If you didn't lift your bum you'd get a sore **** for sure. Kerrie and I also managed to go careering into some branches, really fast. No bruises or bumps though. That night we went to some bat caves and stood around in the dark waiting for the bats to leave ...

... by punching each other to check the padding) and it took 18lbs of weight to get us down. It was an amazing experience though. We went to Agua Calliente and despite the relative cold of 24 degrees water temp, sunk our hands into the bizarrely hot mud. Then we went to Rambo 2 which is a pretty amazing wall dive.I don&#8217;t think lake diving is for me, I hate the cold and having to wear a wetsuit but its was a great one ...

... there. What kind of four wheel drive can carry a whole tour group? That would be a pick-up truck. Now, I suppose I ought to preface this by saying that this is actually a fairly common means of transportation around here. It´s not uncommon, as you drive along the highway, to see trucks packed to the gills with passengers. And, since you take up much less space standing, that´s what people do. So the 11 of us climbed into the bed of the ...

... not a good price ($10), and also a chicken fillet with a curry sauce, some salsa, rice and tortillas. There were no seats so I sat in the gutter, put it all together and ate it. <br><br> My driver didn&#8217;t think it was worth going any further so chucked me in a van going the same direction that was already full with people. Thankfully there was only another hour of travel because I had to sit up the very front, in the third, middle ...

... had to walk and push us across loose gravel on a cliff on the side of a mountain!!!  I know I keep repeating myself but I just can&#8217;t express how unsafe and crazy this was.  And hundreds of Guatemalans do this trek everyday.  With their children.  In minibuses packed to the gills.  It&#8217;s really unbelievable.  In America there is no way in hell that road would be open for travel.  It&#8217;s just a matter of time before it collapses again and kills ...

So after backtracking across the country in switchbacks and bad bad roads we made it to coban the second to last stop before getting to our final destination lanquin which we were suppose to go to. About 15 min outside coban the driver turns to us and says that because of rains the road to lanquin was not good so we would have to stay the night in coban and conviently enough he ...

... lepsi bus. Z ridice jsem vypacili, ze je zmena, za nas veze azna jakousi krizovatku a zde nas soupl do lokalniho narvaneho minibusu. Cesta krkolomna, nicmene sme to zvladli a za tmy prijeli do Copanu. Moc jsme netusiloi, kde nas vysadili, tak jsem s eporad ptali a ptali az nas hodni lide k hotelu nasmerovali. Celi hladovi jsme vyraili na namesti, kde servirivalo stejne jidlo asi u10 stanku. Grilovane hovezi platky ...

... amp; Timbob) on the tour. Semuc Champey was a short hike to a spectacular view of the beautiful warm pools we were about to swim in. We dived and lazed about, messing with Jimbobs underwater camera in the paradise like pools for a few hours before we were dragged away to the caves in Lanquin. According to our guide, all the stalictites and stalicmites formed in the image of some animal or bird, but we struggled to see the resemblances. We didn't bother waiting the 3 ...

... the bank but then decided to withdraw money using our VISA card. That worked well and rather than paying $5 for each transaction, it only cost $2. Well there you go. You live and learn. We transferred money into our VISA account and are withdrawing from that now. When we go back into Mexico, we'll check out the situation again. I called this blog entry 'Ross' Paradise' because our nephew, Ross, highly recommended Lanquin. When I asked him about his ...