Posada El Arco Chichicastenango

... they export it all so the coffee they serve in restaurants is rather ******, in my opinion. Especially compared to Costa Rica and Panama. <br><br>Alright folks, that´s all I have for you today...sorry the updates are coming less frequently (ahem Ma, but I promise I´m doing my best! I´m still a little behind, but the good news is that I´m well! We´re going to Tikal tomorrow, but I´ll get to that more in a later post...hopefully soon. <br><br>One week til´ Turkey Day!

... their indigenous languages in school. Now, three<br>languages are taught: whatever language is indigenous to the area,<br>Spanish, and English. The indigenous language here is Tzutuchil; it<br>sounds<br>really cool and involves a lot of clicky noises with the throat.<br>Yesterday, Maria taught us to say hi. It is CO (insert clicky throat<br>noise<br>here) LEE.<br>We are sure we'll be ready to leave on Saturday, but we can't<br>express enough how cool this town is. We can ...

... the kayak trip we went back to the Clover for a large, well-deserved breakfast and then spent some time on the net and arranging things for our homestay which was to start the following evening. We also ran into Megan and Lauren again, they had spent an extra day at Panajichel as Lauren's cousin was there with a school group. Surprise surprise they were staying in the same hotel as us and we had dinner with them that evening, wrapping up another ...

... froze my account online and went to the school to try and call my bank. The school immediatly called the Tourist Police (who knew that existed? they even have lights on thier car!) and they said that the same thing has happened with the exact same ATM several times in the past two months, they are working on getting it shut down. They have ever reason to believe it is someone who works for the bank, because they have my card and pin number, but they don't ...

... pronounced cock-chi-kel) and you could hear them speaking their ancient language in every corner of the market. It was one of the strangest languages we have ever heard, very guttural and choppy and had no similarities to any other language. <br><br>While at the market we did a little bit of shopping and lots of people watching. During our time there we saw a procession of people walking through the market with balsam incense holding up some saints on their way to the ...

... that the engine was managing to carry all 28 of us up some very very steep inclines! <br><br>We had almost 4 hours in the town itself &#8211; and we wandered around the market getting hopelessly lost and trying to say 'no gracias&#8217; to all the people who were following us trying to get us to buy various items. The market was so colourful with all the woven and embroidered fabrics which the Mayan Women produce ...

... south on Monday; the medics, Will, James and Dave confirmed they would finish up their research by Wednesday evening; Kirsty and Troy ditched Spanish school so would be able to leave on Thursday; Derek another Dutch guy, was happy to go with the flow and we recruited a Kiwi George who was more than happy not to do another full week of Spanish school. My idea of staying with a family was scuppered as I was only going to be in Xela for another 3 days, I didn't see the ...

We headed to the market in the morning. I bough a day of the dead figurine and helped everyone else negotiate good prices for all the stuff. We also witness a indigenous/catholic religious process (side note: sporatically these guys would fire off fireworks at all hours of the day, everyday). We ended the day with ice cream and bought some for some of ...

... order to get the best price. It has worked for us a lot. <br><br>By 3pm we had walked all the market and ended with about 6 bags full of souvenirs. We had to wait about one hour for our shuttle to leave. We arrived to Pana at 6 and they dropped us right in front of the hostel. <br><br>Tonight we're going to the circus bar to try another pizza there for the last time since tomorrow we'll be leaving to ciudad de guatemala

... On a personal note I thought that Chichi´s market was much over rated. It&#8217;s aimed at tourists and tourists alone. <br><br>I left Chichi Monday morning and was successful in hitching all the way to Huehuetenango which was around 2.5 hours north west. My original destination was Salama, where I would connect for further transport on to Nebaj but along the way I discovered that a new road had opened up 7 months ago to Huehuetenango ...