Hotel Spring Guatemala City

... boarded a number of so-called chicken buses(mostly old North American school buses), crossed a border and was settled in my hotel in Guatemala City by 4:30 pm. This is a big city and I am located in the historic center, somewhat more dilapidated ...

... our travels in Central America, we grabbed a taxi to our hotel in Zona 1 - the historic part of the city. We arrived at Hotel Spring without any problems and were surprised at how nice our accommodation was. Set around a big open square courtyard full of ...

... very hard to explain the kind of day we had. I'm so tired... We went to Camp Zuriel in a little town in the mountains above Guatemala City. The bus dropped us off and we hiked about 20 minutes up and down the narrow path to get to the main area of ...

... finest tortillas we encountered in all of Guatemala. DAY 7 The following day was a travelling day, with the sole intention of reaching Guatemala City the next morning. We were a long way away, on the East coast, so took a boat to the nearest road at ...

... days ago, our plane left 2 hours later from Toronto which gave us only 20 minutes to get to our connecting flight from Miami to Guatemala City. We caught the flight but our luggage didn't so we arrived with only our daypacks. The photo shows what we had - ...

... experience it in the mouth too? Luckily I only got stung once so I didn't die. We did a whistle stop tour of "Guatemala City", it's nothing special and extremely noisy too. It's good to change over to your next destination and that is about ...

... -  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 ...

... him a lot.  After flying from Canada to San Francisco, to Mexico, he hitched rides for 5 months through Mexico and ended up in Guatemala.  From there he bought a bike and rode it down to the lake.  I admire people that can live so ...

... ) with his whole pack, and at 5pm turned around and walked back again to get the last bus to Quetzaltenango, to make the spring solstice in Palenque, Mexico. Guess I´ll never know if he made it! Also met a couple from Streatham. These South Londoners ...

... volcano and another early start, so I´m heading for the small town of Chichicastenango for a look round. One difficult thing about Guatemala has been that none of the ATMs accept debit cards.  My credit card expired on 30 January (the day after ...

... the Cahabon River until the Las Marías Hotel. Semuc Champey is a natural monument in the department of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, near the Q'eqchi' Maya town of Lanquín. It consists of a natural 300m limestone bridge, under which passes the Cahabòn ...

... we had been so far. Most of the markets we had visited were stocked with cheap imported goods from Asia. But Guatemala's Western Highlands were different, as they are populated by various Mayan groups that have lived there for over 2000 years and ...

... the Chilean quake.  As my bus zoomed towards the Honduran border I realized that some buses cut through Honduras to get to Guatemala City and I started praying that this one would take the southern all Guatemala route.  Why?  Because I was ...

All three of us arrived in Antigua about 7am Sunday after transferring buses in Guatemala City. line screwed up and only had three seats on the bus to Antigua so we all split a cab to Antigua. 30.00 usd total and 45 minutes. Antigua is a beautiful city ...

... for the bags as two of them have broken.  They also kindly offered to order anything we needed from their main store in Guatemala City, so we headed off to have a chat about what we needed and whether this would work without trying them on first?? ...

... El Tortugal (www.tortugal.com), which is at the lake side, a bit away from town and they went on to town and further to Guatemala City for their flight home. El Tortugal is a great place to stay and cheap (4 euro/night) for what you get (nice ...

... the structures many times, the government had enough after a major earthquake in 1773 and moved the capital to present day Guatemala City.  The former capital was renamed La Antigua Guatemala (the Old Guatemala).  This was a blessing in ...

... Sao Paulo, Brazil to Costa Rica I found that for the same price we could also add on a roundtrip flight from Costa Rica to Guatemala City.  Although the prime time to visit the city of Antigua is during Semana Santa - Holy Week - we decided that we ...

When you last tuned in Jim & I had just boarded our bus in Guatemala City. Navigating the bus through narrow streets is no easy task. The driver has a 'spotter' who, as the bus makes its way, is all over the bus, at times even hanging from the ...

... to climb. We spent two more days in El Remate on the lake, and Sunday the 30th we took an overnight bus down to Guatemala City. Then we caught chicken buses down to the Guatemalan/Salvadorean border. We intended to take chicken buses all the way to El ...