Hotel Virgen del Rosario Coban

... Israeli couple says ¨Alleluia.¨ Drugged girl does not apologize. <br>4) Shuttle winds and winds over hills and unpaved roads at high altitudes. Andy asks Lindsey how she is feeling when clearly she is about to vomit all over his lap. He gets a dirty look and a possible sarcastic remark. Lindsey apologizes for all past &amp; future remarks made during journey and concentrates on keeping her lunch. <br>5) Passing transport trucks all ...

... It's really lush and not barren at all, not many tropical plants but lots of farming land and the people have literally nothing, some clothes and a roof or corregated iron roof over their heads. So far, everyone has been really friendly and helpful. <br>Lanquin is mainly if not 100% Maya peoples. Spanish is not taught here and is only really spoken for the tourists, the children do not understand Spanish at all, don't actually think they go to school ...

... pud as thick and stodgy as a stale cake). Shanti Shanti is nice for dinner, we order soup and curry and its all homemade while we wait. Zooola is also pretty interesting, it&#8217;s a secret garden with mats and cushions to sit on around low tables. The food was amazing (Israel themed and very veggie friendly) but Myk blames them for bout of food poisoning so we don&#8217;t return Lola&#8217;s at the dock is pretty good ...

... to a ten-footer. Made it okay down that one once, but the second time it rolled me. That was enough of that. The pools at Semuc Champey are really awesome. The colors and the extent of them is what makes them beautiful.<br> One night I wanted to see bats exit a nearby cave. I waited until it got dark and then positioned ...

Sunday, 6 September, Day 224<br><br><br><br>Flores, Guatemala<br><br> I left Flores early in the morning. I wasn't sad about that. Flores itself was no good, a boring expensive town that didn&#8217;t impress me. The nearby ruins were the attractive feature. I caught a shuttle bus, and to my delight, again, I was the only one on it. As most of the people I had met were travelling from North to South and I kept getting bus&#8217;s to myself ...

... wasn&#8217;t so lucky.  The minibus got so packed (23 people in a van made for 13) that the poor daughter had to sit on her father&#8217;s lap.  About half way through the trip the young son got car sick, all over the floor and on his poor sister!  As many of you know, Devin gets a little motion sickness sometimes so this didn&#8217;t help.  There was also an Indigenous woman ahead of us that got quite sick.  Luckily it didn&#8217;t smell too bad.  It also ...

... chilled out place I´ve come across on my travels, maybe by a longshot. Oh, and I met a guy from Georgia who was planning to meet Jim Handy down here over the last few months, but I guess Handy never came down. Great guy, though. <br><br>After unexpectedly staying a night at El Retiro I returned back to Coban, staying the night to leave for Nebaj the following morning. Met a lot of great people over the last couple weeks, many of whom were met at El Retiro. <br>

... were in and out of the capital in a flash, only stopping for a quick egg sandwich. Thankfully they sell you all sorts of snacks and drinks on the bus. So realistically, you wouldn't have to get off the bus at all. You could just go round and round. We took the next bus up to the smaller city of Coban. The bus journey snakes through the mountains and you realise that Guatemala is a beautiful country. You pass through ...

... with people on board. So at this point me and Henry are looking at each other thinking this is going to be one interesting trip! The Pullman begins to drive and were on our way, so far so good. About an hour into the trip we start to visibly see signs of where at least some part of the mud slide had hit. Suddenly we're on a dirt road made for one car that you could tell was probably paved ...

... We then descended to the river below and followed our guide as he lead us to the edge of the first waterfall. We were able to jump happily into the pool below and swim a bit before heading to the 2nd waterfall and sliding down the rocks to the 3rd pool. We continued down the river through 6 pools. At the 6th pool, we headed to the waterfall and realized that this one was a LOT bigger than the others. At this point only 5 of our group wanted to continue ...