Piache Hotel San Ignacio

... main chamber we had to actually climb up a large rock and go onto a ledge, it wasn&#8217;t actually as hard as I was thinking from what I&#8217;d read but anyone particularly out of shape or on the large side may have found some of the small crevices hard to get through!!!<br><br>The main chamber itself is amazing!!! It is full of artefacts&#8230;. Pots and human remains. Our guide had a story for each set of artefacts which helped to ...

... in the breeze, facing the sea on<br>one side of the island. As we continued, we faced the other way,<br>looking into the sunset and the sea on the other side of the island.<br>It was an amazing experience, well worth the long journey back to the<br>Caye just for that class. I realized though, that the day at the<br>beach, combined with the lack of sunscreen had predictably turned me<br>into a tomato. A painful red had started replacing my tan and I<br>regretted not ...

Saturday<br><br>We all slept in after last nights late night. I went to the market with Sam. The market is the big event in San Ignacio on Saturday and it is a mass off tents and stands with all sorts of different things for sale. In addition to produce, snacks, spices and meat there were used clothing, shoes, jewelry and health and beauty items from the US. We bought some produce (unidentifiable leaves, a ...

... won´t be getting hers until well after Mother´s Day. Darn.<br><br>We walked to the market and was instantly herded into a colectivo bound for Melchor de Mencos, the town on the border with Belize. After the 30 quetzals, I was down to almost nothing. After a 2 hour drive with the last 10 miles unpaved, we arrived to rain and money changers. LP said it cost nothing to leave Guatemala and enter Belize. We asked around and made sure we won´t be needing anymore quetzals ...

... There were HUGE bamboo plants, very cool trees and a CORAL snake!!!!! Poisonous. There was a Canadian family with 2 teenage daughters and one had their boyfriend along. When we happened upon the coral snake the girls started screaming and one backed into a very thorny tree. We, since Herbert and I didn't have are own children to terrorize we swooped in on these ones. Further up the trail Herbert says "Isn't this where we have to cross this ...

... There was almost no tread left on it whatsoever and it was worn down to the mesh!! <br><br> <br><br>First stop was the Rio Frio Cave, basically a massive cave containing limestone formations. We explored it and then we visited Rio on Pools where we had a swim and played on the natural water slides. <br><br>Then we went to Big Rock Falls where a massive 150ft waterfall plunges into a huge deep pool. We jumped in off a rock and generally messed ...

... us to forgiving friends and the unforgiving heat of the desert; in Guatemala we met the lovely Samuel on the first chicken bus we caught (a hyper talkative english speaking Guatemalan man who kept assuming we were American because his kids lived in the US); and then within 5 minutes of arriving in San Ignacio in Belize we met 'Blackstar' (or 'Starblack' as he claimed his name was also reversible) a 40 yr old Rustafari who turned out to be the oddest. Let me see if I can give this ...

... if you had a choice between , a sale at your favorite story that was one night only with ridiculously low prices basically giving away the merchandise with money back or church no special event just church. What would you choose? You say well I mean church is always their this is once in a lifetime. Old me would have said well see you don't understand I mean church will be the same next time. This is tonight only. By making the choice to go to the sale you are ...

... with summer jobs, remember to tithe your income and consider giving to The Word At Work and The King's Children Home. They need the financial support to keep on helping and loving and you will know that your money will be well used to help others in a country that needs some of our redistribution of wealth. After that last paragraph, I think you can see what we did for the rest of the week...but I have a few more stories before I let you get off the hook... Sunday, June 15, 2008 ...

... the 45 acre garden and it was very interesting indeed. They provided a booklet that gave information on around 70% of the plants, the rest were named but did not have so much information. Never the less it was a fascinating visit, indeed it would be good at any time of the year as there are always different plants and trees in season. 28th.- Today we are mainly in the camp doing washing and cleaning out the termites ready to go into Guatemala tomorrow.