Hostel Lanquin

... dirt road to a place called Cahabon from where we hope to catch a chicken bus (recycled US school bus) to a town called Lanquin. From there we can visit what many consider to be the most beautiful natural feature in Guatemala - a 30ft high limestone ...

... from Lanquin.  We got in our bus with capacity for 20 and once it was filled, we started driving...but we just did loops around Lanquin looking for more people to cram into and on top of the bus - after 30 or 45 minutes of loops, we had crammed about ...

We arrive in Lanquin and to our hostel "El Retiro" (the retreat) in the afternoon. This place contains wooden Palapa's (Cabana's)  sublimely -located on a hill overlooking green fields and hills covered in coffee plants and pine trees. It also ...

... 2 Aussies and 1 Kiwi), 2 Brits (one living in Costa Rica) and a Costa Rican, up early and departing Flores for Lanquin. The journey itself was always going to be long and painful - that's just Guate roads, but everyone made themselves as comfortable as ...

... . We met four great guys from the east coast and two great girls from Holland.  We finally arrived at our hostel in Lanquin at around 9:30pm. Our new travel friends were staying at a different hostel. We got situated and went to our ...

... 8:30 then we spent the next hour driving all over Antigua picking up more people. Finally we were on our way to El Retiro Hostel in Lanquin. The trip is advertised as taking 6 hours, Yeah – right. Our trip ended up taking 8.5 hours and while we were ...

Jessica, Ellise and I awoke, said goodbye to Irene, and caught a bus to Lanquin today where we stayed at the muy tranquillo (very relaxed) "El Retiro", Guatemala's most famous hostel. I am very happy to say that we literally were able to get the last 3 ...

... say things went rather smoothly. except my ass definitely hurt after sitting on the deluxe metal cushion.Anyways, we arrived in Lanquin and walked down another sketchy mud road to arrive at the most beautiful hostel yet. We were surrounded by rolling ...

... the cafe or internet place I was looking for... but I found out where it was and jumped in a microbus this morning headed for Lanquin and full of guatemaltecos.  I love the public transport here - never a dull moment!  We´ll see what happens ...

... had chain smoked half her pack of smokes before a ride came by. We jumped in the back of a pickup and were taken to Lanquin, a quiet little town and dropped at the most amazing place by the river. A hostel called El Retiro. El Retiro Grassy hills lined ...

the americans decide to move onto Tikal without staying to see lanquin or semuc champay bacuase it is drizzling, and more importantly they only have a short time frame left.  lukey b is feeling better after his sickness the day before, so we decide ...

... do use them as fields...and I´m still in admiration on how they succeed getting the Maiz out of there! We finally approached Lanquin when we got off a pretty OK paved road to enter a tiny mini path, where the max speed we could reach was maybe ...

An 8 hour bus journey from Flores to Lanquin meant that I was able to ditch the boring English girls that I'd met in Flores and join up with a bit more of an international group, well by international I mean Australian, American and ...

... ironically enough, I found myself back in Antigua. But only for a quick recoup before we were off to Lanquin. We stayed at this amazing hostel called Zephyr lodge located on a hilltop looking over the valley...the showers alone were worth the stay: ...

... national park. We had already said that we would head back here and stay a night due to the beauty of the area. Although Lanquin sees many tourists, mainly those like us, passing through, it has kept it´s rural face and the people live there the way ...

A pretty horrific 8 hour bus ride on roads that you can't call roads all the way to Lanquin. Heard from many that Zephyr Lodge was the place to be but turned up near midnight (no thanks to the drivers hour long chicken dinner stop) only to find they had ...

... guide said “not possible” when I asked about it. We still don’t know why. Back at the hostel, we had time to make the tour to the Lanquin bat caves, but decided to forgo that excursion as we’ve both seen bats & since  the ...