Lanquin Hostels

... of fun and frivolities in the sunshine and making you all very jealous, as opposed to stories of me sitting alone in cockroach infested hostels with all of my worldy goods stolen. but we shall see.. please email me and tell me how you all are whilst im ...

... spending a year (give or take) visiting some of the world's less developed countries as I test my endurance(hostels, bugs, squat toilets,language barriers!) Highlights will include getting my scuba certification, volunteering with kids, conservation work, ...

... on the edge of the Lanquin river – little bamboo huts scattered over the hillside. We haven’t stayed at any hostels – preferring a more quiet atmosphere & a little less "roughing it", but El Retiro is a legend – according to ...

Thanksgiving. Woke up and switched hostels to Zepher Lodge. Spent the entire day lazing around the hostel. It has an incredibly beautiful view over jungle canyons and a large winding river. Made good progress on my book about mayan life. Made some phone ...

... past a McDonald's and everyone yelled out for the driver to stop, turned out that poo on a plate wasn't enough breakfast for anyone. Lanquin is a small town in the middle of Guatemala, and it is the town most people stay in to visit the turquoise pools of ...

... an hour and forty minutes later of negioting steep mountain roads and potholes we arrived in El Retiro one of the two hostels in Lanquin. Of course the Guatemalen chaos ensued and being that we had no reservation and there was no rooms left in either ...

... I was doing it. After I had to wait 30 mins for a shower as there was only 2. Things were not looking good for the hostels votes. I joined Roisin and Malcom from Ireland who were on the same bus as me from Flores. I drank some beer but I really was not ...

... pretty phenomenal...not the bat touching me, what I saw in that cave.  I had just been on a tour through the Grutas de Lanquin with a group of about seven other people.  Our guide was a fifteen year old Guatemalan boy who liked to say my name a ...

Get on the bus to Lanquin to see Anthony and a guy named kit on it...All headed to El Retiro...one of the best hostels in the world.....It was about a seven hour sleepless rocky ride but when we got there they assigned me the monkey hut and I knew I was ...

... anteater, etc., photos are from the zoo.  No, as cool as it would have been, there weren´t huge jaguars lingering around our hostels. Anyway, after Tikal we jumped a bus down to Rio Dulce, a sweet little town on the river on the east side of the ...

... be back in Melbourne ridding the train to work, it only makes me laugh and think what the hell was I thinking! We drove back to Lanquin and managed to find the hostel. I decided to sleep in my hammock for the few nights we would be here. I havent slept ...

... . 8 hours would have seen us in Lanquin by 3:30pm but as punctuality doesn't seem to rate very highly for Guatemalans, we arrived in Lanquin (the launch town for Samuc Champey) at around 6:00pm. The 10km in the back of a pick up, to Samuc Champey, took a ...

... expected something different, but we did enjoy what we saw! In between the dinner and the trip the the volcano, we had moved hostels after deciding that Gato Negro was not really that great value, and a hostel with a kitchen would be better, thankfully ...

... were not expecting was we found.  The island was over-run with hippie tourists, yoga studios, massage therapists and hostels with saunas.  It was the strangest sight and completely isolated from the rest of the Guatemalans.  After visiting ...

... away from the water...smart, right? After a never ending bus ride and one to many dirt roads we arrived in Lanquin. A village with just two hostels, but some pretty cool waterfalls, caves and tubing. We hadnt made a reservation and of course both of the ...

... and we head to our hostel...well, in the direction of where our guidebooks say there are hostels.  Tomorrow we head to Lanquin to a hostel that has hammocks, tubing, eco-toilets, and who knows what kind crazy adventures. It feels ...

... learned on this trip, especially when it's printed in 2001 (guess I can only blame myself for bringing such an outdated book). The hostels and bars mentioned in it are usually no longer the place to be, if they even exists. I find Playa Majagual to be ...

... on a tour in the morning to the caves.  They are amazing,  There are some caves in the nearby town, called Lanquin, where you just walk through them.  But these caves you are literally swimming through them with nothing but a candle in ...

... of peanut butter and several loaves of bread in the last couple of weeks. THIS IS HOT! We had another uncomfortable ride from Lanquin to Antigua, and arrived mid day.  It was dull and cloudy, an excellent day to travel, but masked the beauty ...

... me one of the most delicious fresh banana smoothies I´ve ever tasted. The following morning I headed off towards my next destination, Lanquin. But at this point I shall stop, as the rain has finally ceased, and I am desperate for some dinner. Until ...