Royal Park Hotel
Travel Blogs from Huehuetenango
Trying to track down my possessions.
I had a really bad nights sleep, which was to be expected. I have every single scenario going on in my head, getting my stuff back, not getting my stuff back, the driver realising the bag is there and coming to find me, seeing the label with my number on the bag and ringing me to say he had it, dropping it off at the hotel... any possibility, I …
Huehuetenango
... don’t think she’s going to get her bag back but in the end we came to a decision and decided to stay till the time we’d been dropped off last night and then get in a taxi to Quetzaltenango. A little bit extreme I know but it just seems such a shame to stay somewhere which isn’t very nice.
So back to the hotel we went again and dropped off our gear so we could wander around town a bit. About the ...
Hike to La Torre & the loss of the rucksack :-(
... the officer did look at me a bit weirdly, but he took my number in his mobile, rather than on the computer which was not very reassuring. He clearly thought I was crazy expecting someone to hand it in to the police. He gave me the numbers of the other police stations in the town and Ovni very kindly rang them all for me and left his number and mine in case anything showed up. Nothing is computerised, so it isn’t like in the UK where if you lose something and ...
Todos Santos, La Torre and the lost backpack!
... driver was all of about 12 years old (!) but fortunately had great control of this massive ridiculously overloaded ancient American school bus and apart from a couple of crazy instances the journey was ok. The best time to travel anywhere is as early in the morning as possible, just a better choice of options, more availability etc. This journey we’re starting at 3pm and because of that apparently we got the last chicken bus out of town and as well we ...
Market day
... to amaze me how many people wear the local traditional dress and it’s just because that’s what they do rather than doing it for tourism, we’re the only tourists here and most likely we’re the only tourists that have stopped here all year! It makes a lovely change from other places I’ve been where the traditional clothing is only for people to take pictures of.
We spent a bit of time wandering through the market on our way to ...