Apart Hotels in Guatemala

...  very cold and uncomfortable.  I don't think I slept much at all!   Thursday June 5- Guatemala City We arrived at 5:30am in Guatemala City and took a taxi to our friend Chisco's house.  The ...

Yes, I have finally arrived in Guatemala - only about 3 weeks later than planned. But seeing as my recent blog entries have resembled a Alejandro González Iñárritu movie, I shall start from where I last left off....   So last Wednesday morning, ...

... been through. She even topped up our water bottles. So, here we are borrowing the computer of the reservation agent in the Guatemala City Ramada Reforma Hotel. He just popped his head into the office door to ask us to turn off the computer when we ...

... can provide security. On this trip I visited Antigua solely with a day trip to its famous Finca Filadelfia coffee estate and Guatemala's most active volcano, Pacaya. Enjoy! Food & Drink: *Disclaimer: If this is your first trip to Guatemala or Latin ...

... which we were told we would not have to pay) and were queuing up to have our passports stamped to enter Guatemala (another $1, despite the Honduran passport office assuring us 2 minutes earlier and a Guatemalan offical 1 minute earlier that there was no ...

... 8217;ll try to do better from now on, I swear…Apart from those nachos with questionable cheese that I just consumed at Guatemala Airport…I swear I requested 'no queso’ but in amongst all the ‘sin carne’ ‘sin ...

... tube ride down the river. We both agree this was the most action packed and exciting day what a great way to say goodbye to Guatemala. Rio Dulce 1st – 2nd June Rio Dulce is both the name of the river and the town where we stayed one night before ...

... a problem. We set off this morning to xela then onto panajachel on lake aitlan, turns out there are a lot of 'auto hotels' in Guatemala, the 100kms to xela we passed many and lots of adverts for them! The difference in such a short distance between ...

There is a significant difference between the populations of Guatemala's first and second largest cities. Guatemala City, the nation's commercial center, is packed with about three million people. Quetzaltenango, with fewer than two-hundred thousand ...

... -  great to get a locals point of view!! After another couple of hours we were travelling the final leg through Guatemala City, a place we don’t think we would ever walk through without an armed guard.  The traffic and fumes were horrific ...

... as the area just by the lake is the domain of the gringos and caters for all a traveller needs, laundries, bars, restaurants, hotels, hostels etc and loads of old crinkled and bent Mayan women selling amazing banana, chocolate breads and cakes.  Up ...

... Marie who at 10 was the youngest in the family.  They also had their cousin, Anderson, staying with them from Guatemala City, and their grandmother who spoke absolutely no Spanish, only Mayan dialect.  Now Lynda had only been in the ...

... , then something simple for dinner like soup and tortillas or platanos with frijoles and tortillas. Tortillas really are the tatties of Guatemala (and Mexico)! It was during meal times that we realised how 'fluid' family life is here. There was always a ...

... the typical main town.  it is the It has all the banks, lots of commerce, and noise.... and as usual in Guatemala, lots and lots of tuc-tucs (3-wheel taxi). Anyone that comes to atitlan lake will most likely arrive to Panajachel first. ...

... , 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 the general tranquility that exists in this town; I took the ...

... about 15 minutes.  When I did a walk around it, I got lapped 3 times by a man out jogging!  Apart from a church, a school and a few hotels, there isn't really much else happening on the island, but it is still a popular place to stay due to ...

... nbsp; When our 15 seater minibus turned up, we were a little dismayed!  So we did the rounds at picking up people from their hotels and the bus got fuller and fuller THEN when the bus was full up, the driver decided that he wanted his mate to hop on ...

... skinned than the Guatemalans and seem to be bigger and taller (that’s it for my sweeping generalisations of Hondurans). In Guatemala I am considered quite tall (they are pretty short there). Arrived in Copan at 12 and the bus was met by the ...

... i had just returned from Cuba. Well since then i have travelled down the Carribean Coast of Mexico, through Belize, and into Guatemala, and it went something like this... From Cancun i headed down to Playa Del Carmen, a beach resort about an hour ...

... moving even if it means a little bit of triage whacks the wishlist of other places to see. A few countries standing between Guatemala and Panama hold little interest for me to again visit, and a multiday bus journey is one laborious option to cross ...