Posada Schumann San Marcos La Laguna

... Atitlan – stopping on the way at ‘del casa del mundo’ to book our night on our ‘expensive’ hotel. It’s a beautiful place and well worth the $34 for one night. We are going on Saturday and plan to be there rather early in the morning and leave rather late on the Sunday (!).

We explored San Marcos a little this afternoon it’s a very small little town. We were escorted from hotel to hotel by two little boys who wouldn’ ...

... a hostel that claimed to be closed. We followed the music and walked in on some hippies and a crowd that welcomed us with beaming smiles. Turns out they were all drugged out of their mind, listening to music, passing around fresh fruit, playing with hackey sack and twirling a broom stick. We stayed for a beer and chatted for a few and while there were some interesting stories, we felt a little out of place and so decided the leave. I will say that the place had ...

... exchanging all of our traveling experiences. Oh yea, and then I met a group of Mexican bikers who put me on one of their bikes and draped me in their leather. After that, they introduced me to their ¨boss¨. I wasn´t really sure what the ¨boss¨was in charge of.

The hotel we were in (Hotel Tzutujil) was definitely an experience. The owner was a kind man, and the cleaning lady and her children were interesting to ...

... van de toegang en het maken van één foto stonden we weer buiten. Wat een hoop glitter en bling bling.....en twee gestoorden naast een pop met een peuk in zijn bek. We waren met de volgende boot weer terug.....wel lekker even uitwaaien op het water.
Gisteren zijn we vroeg op pad gegaan met de boot naar Panajachel. We moesten pinnen, wat kaarten op de post doen, en wilden ook wel eens ergens anders ontbijten. Om negen uur ...

The birds were chirping, the sun was shining and the view of the lake was a most gorgeous sight first thing in the morning. Unfortunately for our traveling companion, Ludwig brought the bed bugs to San Pedro. Poor Hotel Pinocchio, they're about to witness a bed bug infestation in the making. Met Saad last night who spotted Stacey and I at the Sunday Chichi market. What a coincidence, I remembered him too. Not too many 6 ft. 6 Moroccans ...

... and he was a nice fella telling us how the city is really dodgy! We found a nice hotel near the market and bus station in Antigua and had a bit of a look around the old colonial capital, mainly the square and the old Government palace from where the whole of Central America was governed. The one thing that struck us immediately is there are more American tourists in Antigua than Guatemalans. The second day we got up and left at 6 to go to the volcano Pacaya an hour to ...

... thyrladist fyngert ryk utum allt og inn i allt. Eg og Sigga kiktum a Janet sem Sigga bjo hja herna fyrir 2 arum og aetlum vid ad kikja til hennar i kvoldmat i kvold. Sigga hefur verid ad dasama eldamennskuna hennar svo thetta verdur vonandi gott. Stefnan er svo tekin fljotlega til kyrrahafsins thar sem Atli aetlar ad surfa eda til Lago Atitlan thar sem a ad vera mjog fallegt. Bidjum ad heilsa!

... The details are fuzzy, but from what I gather we'll be going to the department of Rabinal in the Central Highlands. Here in the towns around the city of Rabinal unimaginable massacres took places during the civil war, mostly in the early 1980s. We'll be visiting the towns of Rio Negro and Plan de Sanchez, both sites of large-scale massacres. Otherwise, we'll be going to El Estor and in and around the Rio Dulce region in the east. The El Estor nickel mine was one of the ...

... ever so graceful and casual telling me to get in and shooting me his peluchey smile. we get in and he tells us not to worry....a bus is waiting. he takes us to a shuttle and off we go to coban.......coban is a scary **** hole. very uncomfortable place, but also necessary place to catch the two a.m. bus to guate city. got some dinner and a quick nap before catching that sweet bus.......back to where i began.

Yesterday morning I got my tired ass out of bed after yet another night of the strangest dreaming, in order to quit Antigua and move on the the gran milagro, Lago de Atitlan. Huge lake surrounded by three volcanoes, with little towns decorating its edges, all accessible by boat. I like the little town of San Marcos as a place to stay, because it has a mellow vibe, interesting hotels and nice people. The ride here was a contrast the ...