Santo Tomas Hotel Chichicastenango

... see coming back<br>here someday, possibly for a longer length of time. Though there is a<br>serious gringo population here, it's not really a "tourist<br>destination." It's more like a place wehere people come and they stay<br>for weeks, months.. or years. It's hard to describe all the colorfully<br>painted, perfectly named, little chilled out gringo cafes and bars, as<br>well as all the adorable wooden signs, painted walls, and dirt paths<br>that lead to them, so we included this ...

... meal from Clover with a large piece of chocolate cake bought from a lady plying her wares on the street. We had a fairly chilled evening as everyone was tired from the night before. Al was suffering from overeating - the Clover had made its usual Irish Stew for the Saturday crowd and the portion was extremely generous. A bit of belly rubbing and chocolate cake and he was right as rain, reading the PADI dive manual in preparation for our diving course to ...

... my card. And the money has been taken out of the ATM everytime. The ATM wouldn't let me take money out, but even though I was in the hole, it was letting this person get money out. I have to go see a public offical on Monday, but the school and the police gave me every reason to believe that I would get my money back. (it was a visa card and my bank is FDIC) it just might take a while. so...looks like I will be in Xela for a while. Thank god it happened ...

... though (some for ourselves too obv!) and are just hoping everything will fit into our rucksacks (especially since we plan to buy a couple more things in Antigua next week!!!). For lunch we grabbed some &#8216;cerviches&#8217; &#8211; this time I was happier since the prawns had been pre-cooked and were a lovely pink colour when they were put in J <br><br>All in all the day was a feast for the eyes. Mayan women wearing the ...

Después levantarnos a 7 en la mañana fuimos a Chichicastenango. Fue como una hora viaje. En Chichi comemos desayuno a la un café, fue delicioso tuve un omelet. Después desayuno paseamos la ciudad en un bicecleta con dos sientes. La ciudad es muy antigua y muy bonita. Te recomiendo que visites un ciudad y pasear porque es muy divertido y bonito. Después nosotros visitamos la Iglesia de Santo Tomas, la iglesia ...

... passable road. All the towns around the lake are connected by paths, but just for walking, no way a car can go through there. <br><br>San Juan is a very small town. As any other it has several churches, basic services and tourist oriented business. However what makes it different is that the women here got together and made textile companies. So basically what they do is that they show how to do the maya fabrics using the ancient methods and the ancient color applying ...

... a spectacular mountain range. After much deliberating I decided to say adios to my chauffeurs and walked back to this new junction and try my luck at hitching to Huehuetenango instead. I hadn´t been waiting long when Gilberto, a wealthy looking business man pulled over to offer me a ride and even dropped me off outside the Hotel of my choice in town. This new stretch of winding mountainous road is a breathtaking spectacle and I was ...