Hotel Ti'Kaaj San Pedro La Laguna

... it became a huge joke amongst all of us! One day she even let Farrah and I try balancing her bread basket on our heads! I don´t know how they do it...they must start practicing at a young age because it is difficult!. Anyways, after breakfast we hopped in a tuktuk and headed to San Juan, the neighboring town to San Pedro. It´s even smaller and there is even less going on there, but we did get to walk through the town cemetery which was very neat. They had just ...

Terry and I had a leisurely breakfast on the deck of Shanti Shanti restaurant. Met Jim coming down the road and were informed that he and Rose had been out searching for better accomodations. We schlepped our overweight bags down the stairs ...

Buenooooooos! Braaaaaap!<br><br>I am actually writing this whilst sitting in an internet cafe in Nicaragua so I feel a little like I am cheating on the ´blogging as you go´ front, but I feel it´s time to back track a little so the map (and the important people in inglaterra) can keep updated as to my location. We eventually stayed around a week in San Pedro La Laguna, on Lago de Atitlan which I can honestly say was the most beautiful, yet ...

We arrived in Panajachel after a four hour bus journey from Antigua to find hordes of touts waiting for us once the bus stopped. We could hardly get out of the bus and had to ask them to move back to give us some space. They all wanted us to either take a boat out to other towns, or to look for hotel rooms for us. We didnt have any place in mind for our night at Panajachel and we ended up at a hotel fairly close to the port, a family run place that only ...

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... We got up early and went and had breakfast with Sam the pommy kid, who told us some pretty funny stories over breakfast about his mate being taken to a swingers party by his parents, and things like that. I think he is a DJ or something back home in the UK, so he has alot of drug induced stories and a crazy outlook on life. After dinner, we went to the pontoon to try to dive for the ring. It was about 15-20 foot deep, but Sam was able to get down there. No luck finding the ring, but a ...

Early in the morning arrived our shuttle to Sololá. We'll be staying the following days in the towns surrounding lake atitlan starting at San Pedro La Laguna. <br><br>The trip from Antigua to Sololá takes about 3 hours. The van was very similar to the one that took us to the volcano, but twice as full of people. As we've been used to in all this trip, the landscapes are breathtaking. This time we went by a huge canyon with enormous cliffs. As it ...

... bus to the a city in the far west of El Salvador, Juayua. Those of you who know me well can likey picture by ridiculous level of excitement right now. I swear I´ve been walking a few feet off the ground the last couple days. I´ll be spending about 4 or 5 days in the area, but I really haven´t made to many plans beyond getting to Juayua, largely because there´s plenty to see and do in the area and more specific things ...

... lunch I heard the familiar sound of salsa, drawn to it I followed the noise and found it coming out of a little room which a guy had turned into his dance studio. He saw that I was interested and invited me in for a lesson, I said that I already knew how to dance but thank you very much. He of course didn´t believe me so challenged me to a dance!!!!! ;) I accepted with pleasure. His name ...

... in 1996. Highlight was a trip up the nearby Pacaya volcano, getting so close to the summit that you can smell the burning rubber of shoes as they walk over molten lava. It's a tough climb, definitely up there with the steepest of the Camino de Santiago during the summer, but the views and the lava rivers at the top are well worth the effort.