Quetzaltenango Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Morning all..... it is 957am and seems even earlier for some reason. Esther is sleeping, but i woke up over an hour ago and stuffed myself with the free breakfast and coffee. We are now in Xela, after finally making our move from the lovely Antigua. We loved it there, but it is always nice to move on...there´s a place that just keeps calling me,...

After more than two weeks of yoga, homemade bread, lying on sun baked rocks and staring at the sun winking on the lake- only occasionally disturbed by whooping gringos throwing themselves off the top of the cliff into the water below- I finally managed to leave San Marcos. The lake had something special. I wasn´t really into it at first, after w...

In Xela kann man schoene Dinge unt**nehmen. So gibt es zum Beispiel staendig irgendwo Live-Musik, momentan findet ein Jazzfestival statt und manchmal hat man sogar das Glueck, dass ein richtig** Leck**bissen Station in Xela macht. An meinem dritten Tag hi** kam zum Beispiel Buena Vista Social Club, bzw. was davon noch uebrig ist, hi**h**. Sehr s...

So, heute mal ein kleiner Auzug aus meinem Arbeitsleben, bzw. meinen ersten Wochen hier. Mein dreimonatiges unbezahltes aber dafuer arbeitsintensiven Praktikum mache in bei FUNDAP, einer Entwicklungsorganisation, die vor allem im Westen Guatemalas, dort wo die meisten Indigenas und Armen leben, verschiedene Projekte hat. Die reichen von Gesundhe...

Again, i´m way behind on the blog so the next few entries will be more sparse than i´d like them to be.

After 5 weeks in language school, i decided i needed a week off - partly as a break and partly as a chance to let the overload of Spanish sink in. 3 weeks after that pause, i realised enough was enough - it was long enough with a host f...

Guatemala! Thanks to my terrible inefficiency and large amounts of apathy this entry and the others that will follow are on a slight delay. My intent to stay on top of it all has obviously failed miserably. However, instead of giving up on it I climb back onto the horse and continue to write meaningless rubbish about my travels. A few people (Na...

Its was quite a long week, and I actually worked harder than I have in the past 3 months - some may say in the past three years...I've been learning Spanish in Xela at Casa Xelaju in an effort to survive the rest of the journey and converse with the locals without getting completely riped off. I arrived Sunday afternoon after a couple of chicken...

Ola, I am through two weeks of Spanish now and as the title indicates I have made progress; occasionaly people do understand my jokes, sarcasm and what I am asking for in Spanish. My teacher seems moderately impressed with my success but I still have yet to do better than a B- on any of my homework. That said we correct my homework first thing i...

I met these four my last week in San Pedro. Playing with my camera, checking my photos in public, all the things you are supposedly not supposed to do with your camera in Central America (in reality it really depends on the place within a place, within a place that you are) and this little girl walks past me several times. By the 5th, 6th, 7th t...

So, today another municipal leader was inaugurated...so ot´s pretty much been a 2 day fiesta around here. Nit really party, but definitely a lot of people and speakers and music. I think every few minutes there are fireworks going off. I almost had a heart attack hen the house right next to my classroom set off a bunch of firecrackers. Today we ...