Not much to report this time around. I decided to return to Flores for a few days to study Spanish and yes mother the homework was done! Accommodation While here I stayed at Hotel Dona Rosa, Tel: 78645271 / 56105043, Email: jacintoprimero@yahoo.com It was a well run guest house with welcoming owners, free drinking water and the cheapest internet...

Left Mexico behind to head to Flores , Guatemala ... exciting to be in a new country . Went by minivan for about 2 hours or so to get from Palenque to the Mexican border at Frontera Echeverria on the Rio Usumacinta. The river represents the border between Guatemala and Mexico but the Guatemalan immigration is not directly on the other side to Fr...

Week 10 October 4th - San Cristobal del Casas Thought that by getting up early I'd be first in line for the only bathroom. My plan was scuppered when at 8am some neighbours set off some supersonic fireworks (****, the Mexicans truly love fireworks) which woke everyone up instantly. I was actually laughing in bed wondering what would happen if I ...

So, I am still in Flores. Not working at the refuge though. I called last night and the 2 girls that were supposed to leave are staying, so I will have to wait until the 9th. I've decided to make the best of it though. I am going by bus to Antigua tonight with a archeologist from Tennessee and an ex-pat from Belize who is a Vietnam vet. Both ar...

Got up in the middle of the night, to get the chicken bus at 5am. This time the bus was hilarious. It was obviously the first one of the day and all the locals were going into town for work. When the bus pulled up it was full. We still managed to fit all 15 of us leaving the hostel on. Then we proceded to pick more people up every 5 minutes to t...

This is where I landed after many years and many adventures in Mexico and Central America. Had I not fallen in love with my wonderful wife and her family and the people of Guatemala, would probably be in Chiapas - the second most special place in the world. Angelica a little hostel here in Flores, it's our home too. I have my little office upsta...

The ride to Flores started out with a minibus ride to Coban. Just two hours of drunken sleep would do very little to ease the ride. Much crowding on the ride there. At least the ride from Coban would be with tourists only. The ride was quite rough, and I was getting nauseous. I supposed it was from the drink. The ride from Coban taught me otherw...

(check back later for photos) Thursday February 22nd to Sunday February 25 After a couple days of wet and wild fun in Lanquin and Semuc Champey, we continued our journey northeast to Flores and Tikal. We took a shuttle to Coban with our new friends Marc, Andre and Aaron (sport fishing guides from Alaska) and Rob from Holland. From there, we tran...

We took a colectivo taxi to the Mexico Guatemala border ( a river) then a 45 minute ¨boat¨ ride down river and into Guatemala where we took a 4 hour bus ride on rough roads to Flores, but not before the ¨tour guide¨ tried to get everyone to buy the tikal tour at his price and proceeded to take the bus to every atm in town to get the money not fo...

Vanuit Caya Caulker heb ik op maandagmiddag 2 oktober de watertaxi terug genomen naar Belize City. Van daaruit ben ik met een klein busje verder gereisd naar de grens tussen Belize en GUATAMALA. Ieder land dat je verlaat dient een exit-stempel in je paspoort te zetten. Mis je er eentje dan doet het volgende land erg moeilijk om binnen te komen. ...