Casa d Acuna Coban

Hated my hostel in Lanquin, so got a head start in Coban. Only stayed overnight at Casa D´Acuña, which was a very pleasant ...

Day 13, Feb 21 We were up at 3:30 AM to shower, pack and be ready for the 5:00 shuttle to Coban. Oops – no water! It was hot and humid and pitch black and our laundry isn't much dryer than it was when I hung it up yesterday evening, bummer. The ...

28th February 2010 Casa D'Acuna, Coban, Guatemala Very cool Raxruja – Carchá (48 kms cycling, 55 trucking) San Pedro Carchá – Coban (5 km) Yesterday began with rain and us hanging around like a bad smell hoping it would go away. It went ...

... a bathroom with others, including the kitchen staff but everything was clean and we had plenty of warm, clean bedding. The hotel, Casa D'Acuna had a lovely restaurant and the management knew how to take care of travellers' needs. Carol and Chris went to ...

... ; Getting off the bus in Coban we had no clue where we were in comparison to the hostel we wanted to stay in, Casa D´Acuna. We walked around a bit asking a few Guatemalans in the best Spanish we could.  People were amazingly friendly and happy to ...

... more and more sad that we´re leaving tomorrow!).  We got in to Cobàn shortly after dark and made our way to Casa D´Acuña -- our hotel for the night.  Originally we had contemplated booking a group tour of Lanquín and Semuc Champey ...

... & Lanquin Tour: I arranged the tour through Maya'ch Expeditions.  Breakfast was included in the tour at 7am in the hostel Casa D'Acuna, a stone's throw away from my hostel.  At 8am we departed and it took 2.5 hours to get to Semuc Champey, 2 ...

... there was no connection to Lanquin, so after all that we were not able to get to there, having to settle for a 2 hour bus to Coban which is around 3 hours to the West of Lanquin.  We sat on the bus, looked at each other bedraggled and decided to stay ...

Sixty kilometers east of Coban, Semuc Chanpey is an underground river that flows into limestone pools strung along between lushly vegetated mountains. Swimming and diving between the pools was amazing fun and full of great views. Later in the ...

The trip east to Coban occurred through a series of crowded minibuses draped with stunning mountain vista scenery at varying speeds, occasionally coming to a complete stop while half a dozen excavators reshaped the mountainside dirt road ...

Leave guate to make way to Coban - a stopover point on the way to semuc champey. Nice little hotel with great restuarant, cakes and ...

And back to Coban after a pretty traumatic bus ride involving a child with Black Death, a child with chronic diahorrea, and a child who managed to vomit over everyone in the bus (although, to give him his dues, he did try to get it out the minivan - just ...

... of the day, didn't even notice an increase in army prescence. Shuttle dropped me off at very nice little hotel called Casa D'Acuna, run by a couple of expat Americans.  great restaurant, bakery and a huge collection of orchids all over the place. ...