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Well hello...! Today was an insane day...We decided to go to the market in Chichicastenango this morning. Chichi is an open-air market that is the most famous in all of Guatemala (perhaps in all of Central America)? We booked a round-trip shuttle from Panajachel to Chichi for $12 each! (Sidenote: We are so impressed with the infrastructure in Gu...

Today we awoke to beautiful sunshine and a full view of Volcano San Pedro! We started our morning with a great breakfast here at La Casa Del Mundo...Tony had pancakes and I ordered frijoles and homemade toast. Yum. We got an early start this morning - left the hotel by 10:30am! We had such good luck with our boat commute. We walked down several ...

Buenas Noches from Jaibalito... We are really enjoying La Casa del Mundo - this place is amazing! We woke up to have breakfast in the dining area. The dining room is surrounded by windows overlooking Lake Atitlan and the volcanoes. We had great food with refillable Guatemalan coffee - perfect! We headed out around noon today and took the boat (s...

Hello from beautiful Lake Atitlan! We have had quite the day today! We relied heavily on Tony's internal alarm clock to wake us up today at 6:45am. (Side story: Tony never uses an alarm clock. Even if he has a big presentation at work or something starting at 8am, he tells himself what time he needs to get up, and then simply wakes up naturally ...

After Xela we headed for a couple of days of chilling out at Lago de Atitlan. This beautiful lake is surrounded by volcanic cones. We took a shuttle from Xela to the lake's edge. We had to change shuttles in the middle of the trip but missed our second shuttle as we were too busy eating breakfast in a roadside cafe! Fortunately, the driver of an...

I've heard back from several of you so I'll continue capping my nights off with these oftentimes-random accounts of our days here in Guatemala. Susie and I area really in awe of the natural and cultural beauty of this country and its people. I am in admiration of the indigenous peoples resolute will and desire to maintain their rich cultural her...

Hello, hello my friends and family... things here are a bit toasty in Flores... but i{ll back up a bit to when we first got here to Guatemala oh so long ago on april 18th... we were orginally going to spend a night in rio dulce b-c we had been told that there is a river ride through the jungle from livingston to RD that is a must see... unfortun...

as i said, i went back to the lake. i raced straight through nasty Panajachel with nothing more than a stop behind a tree to pee, and jumped a boat to Santa Cruz, arriving at the Iguana Hostel. I chilled in the lakeside sun reading a book (Brave New World), dozed in a hammock and ate fruit and yogurt. around 3pm the afternoon storm blew in. yipp...

Hi everyone. First of all, CONGRATULATIONS to my choir who had their concerts this weekend, hopefully you living in Colorado made it! Its Sunday afternoon, and I just got back from an awesome weekend down in Lake Atitlan. It is SOOOOOO beautiful down there, it was fantastic. This huge lake sits in the middle of high, high vulcanoes that surround...