Posada Los Bucaros

... construction and dust we finally got to Antigua, a pretty little colonial city that once was the capital city of Guatemala. Our hotel, Posada de los Bucaros, is in the north end of the city, in a quiet area. It looks like at one time it had been an ...

... . Antigua was totally worth the wait: it is a very nice little town and we felt very welcome at our typical local hotel, the Bucaros. The group got to know each other during dinner and we all watched the Boston-Vancouver hockey game in a sports bar. June ...

... the whole area was snowy and frozen, it looked lovely, and you could definately tell when we flew over Las Vegas and Los Angeles! Then flying into Guatemala was really pretty, the tops of volcanoes (active and no longer active) poking through the ...

I joined my tourgroup from "Tucan Travel" in Antigua. The tour will take me from Antigua in Guatemala via Honduras, Nicaragua to San Jose in Costa Rica. We will be using on most stretches public ...

We made our way south to the one of the most famous cities in Guatemala,  Antigua!  Antigua may be the most outstanding and best-preserved colonial city in Spanish America, making it also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  Tourists visit ...

I did the Elizabeth Bell city tour in the morning which was great, she didn't show us the whole way around town which is what you might expect of a city tour but what I loved about it was that we learnt about the politics, economics and culture ...

Hola Amigos!   I am now in Antigua, Guatemala.  It is the former capital of the country, having given way to Guatemela City in the 1700s when an earthquake destroyed the city.  It has been designated a UNESCO heritage site and is full of ...

Today was an early start as we were getting picked up from the hotel at 6am to go and do the Pacaya Volcano hike. There are 3 volcanoes close to Antigua but Pacaya is the most popular for tourists. Our hotel was the first pick up stop and we had to pick ...

So I will carry straight on from the end of the last blog entry as I didn´t go to bed on Sunday night! The flight landed in Guatemala City on time just after 7am local time. Most people on the plane were carrying on to Costa Rica and didn´t have to get ...

Le village est très joli et, à mes yeux, est très typique.  Cela a pris pas mal de temps pour se rendre de Guatemala City à ici en raison d'un embouteillage monstre causé par un assassinat en pleine rue; on a vu le corps de la victime comme on ...

Leaving the shores of Lake Atitlan behind, we headed to Antigua Guatemala.  Sitting at the base of the volcano Volcán de Agua, Antigua was the third capital of Guatemala until earthquakes in 1773 destroyed a lot of the city and the capital was ...

After breakfast at our hotel by the yellow arch, we packed up all of our stuff and headed out to our Spanish school where we would be staying for 5 days. We found our way there easily and let ourselves in, saying hello to Eluvia on the way to our ...

An early 6am start for a short bus ride to the Belizean-Guatemalan border and a simple border crossing (on the Guatemalan side, customs simply check all our passports which the tour leader has collected, they don't actually want to see us in person!). We ...

Hard to believe that day 3 is already here - and almost over, for that matter.  Finishing up from yesterday´s rushed post, yesterday morning´s walking tour with Elizabeth Bell was one of the highlights of the trip, giving us more insight into the ...

Well...Day 2 hasn't gone quite according to plan, but that's not to say it hasn't been fun.  There was quite alot of rain overnight so we decided against climbing the volcano.  Instead, I wandered around for a few hours in the early morning ...

Well, I made it safe and sound to Guatemala, but my luggage did not! Since we are only here until tomorrow morning (and only 5 am at that!) I was a tad worried. But fortunately, it made it here today and all is well. I went for a brief tour of some of ...