Hotel San Carlos Guatemala City

... believe in the importance of family. And it shows. It shows in the caring, loving attitude of parents, in the respect from the children and many other ways. Families that by our standards have very little but have everything when it comes to family. And by helping to provide a roof over these familes' heads, they can continue to concentrate on the importance of family. I believe sometimes our "stuff" gets in the ...

... erro grande. Entre as duas da manha e 6 horas quando<br>me chamaram haviam quebrado o vidro do meu carro e levado<br>o som, 2 lentes das minhas cameras e uma mala com minhas<br>roupas de verao. Ainda por cima os caras que roubaram ano<br>souberam abrir o carro sem quebrar o vidro. O gentinha que<br>nao e profissional. Se voce no Brasil abriram o carro sem quebrar<br>nada e deixariam um bilhetinho dizendo "Muito Obrigado".<br>Amanha ...

... metres and ending up at 2500 metres, though still not quite at the top, because it is still spewing out lava.<br>It was a fairly strenuous walking, about half way up we hit the start of the lava field which was more a fine gravel initially. We had a go at surfing down before continuing up.<br>As we approached the highest point of the climb it became very difficult as we clambered ...

Feliz Cinqo de Mayo Mexico! There was a shuttle that departed San Pedro for Antigua direct for 40 quetzals leaving at 8:30 a.m. We hopped on and bumped into our friends Caroline and Franziska on their way to Coban City via Antigua. Fata Morgana supplied us with the most delicious foccacia bread for breakfast. While all the foods we've eaten so far have been delicious, I must admit to a slight hesitation in consuming ...

... Then we pottered around Copan and its Mayan ruins. It is a quaint town with cobbled streets, hot sunshine and brightly coloured walls of blue and yellow. The food is excellent all the salad washed and so we can eat it for a change. Then we returned to Guatemala walking up a live volcano from Antigua.The live volcano was really something we had a steep steep climb which ended by walking over hardened lava with fissures of molten rock close by.

Quirigua is one of many places in Guatemala were mayan ruins can be appreciate as it best, monolith like the one in the picture are the main attraction in this place of course there's more to see like new excavations that are in process. I really would recommend Turix (www.turix.com) because the tour was great the attention and the response times were as expected and more.

... our local area. This is supposed to be the posh end of town. Maybe that is signified by the armed security guard in McDonalds. We pick a colourful looking place for tea and order blindly off the menu. It turns out to be a fantastic selection of meat and tortillas and homemade salsa´s. Plus the local beer which is called Rooster. We are soon to learn that everything comes with these ...

... saltando entre los árboles....<br><br>Regresando a Flores nos dimos cuenta que el pueblo estaba lleno de regocijo pués en esa semana era su fiesta, todas las noches había música en vivo que no paraba hasta altas horas de la madrugada, después de un par de días de fiesta floriana nos fuimos a la ciudad de Cobán comimos un churrasco con café en llamas y nos fuimos a relajar en el hotel. Conocímos una francesita y una holandesa ...

... were too big for Liz). And its safely back home via Dallas. An excellent trip ranked Guatemala, Panama, Belize, Costa Rica and reinforcing our experience that the less developed the destination the better the experience. Costa Rica had some good stuff but much is dominated by the big tour bus US market which wants to replicate home too much. Photos will go up over the weekend - they are now there

... NGO&#8217;s weren&#8217;t even around yet, either. Considering that Guatemala had, and still has, the most outstanding hand-woven textiles in the world, that seemed like a good idea. It was. People like me spawned a whole new industry that spread around the world, empowering diverse peoples and tribes before the Internet made everything that came before it obsolete. But that was then. This is now. That whole wave of enterprise has largely come ...