Hotel Casa del Lacandon
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Jungle hiking
I've been now 2 weeks in the jungle province of Guatemala, El Petén.
Directly from Palenque, Mexico, I arrived at Flores on the 11/3. Flores is built on an island in Lago de Petén Itzá and is connected to its sister town Santa Elena through a 500m causeway. Flores was founded by the Itzáes, who wound up here after being expelled from Chich …
The "Traveler's Track"
... traffic. Semuc Champey was totally worth the mission. Even though our guided tour had way too many people and our guide kept yelling at us to “Come on, Come on Guyz” we thoroughly enjoyed our day in nature and being adventurous. We rode up the hills standing in the back of a pick-up like cattle, we went swimming through deep caves with only the candles we carried in our hands to light the way, we climbed up waterfalls, we tubed down a river, we ...
Tikal, 2012
... Guatemala before I got here. Coming here was the result of it being financially convenient and readily accessible. Spring Arbor is a small, private university, meaning they don't have study abroad programs with a myriad of other countries. To go somewhere like Spain I would have had to go with a different program entirely, apply for separate and non-transferable financial aid, and jump through a number of other hoops as well. Seeing as I didn't have the desire or, ...
Me Oh Mayan
... shuttle back to our guesthouse in Flores, and cleaned the muggy, sticky jungle off of ourselves with a jump in Lake Peten, conveniently right outside our hotel. It's Sunday afternoon, and we apparently joined the locals in a Sunday ritual- a city-wide swim and watching the sun set. Tomorrow is our last day in the north- we fly back to Guatemala City in the afternoon, which promises to be much less sunny and enchanting than Flores. But at least they have ...
More Tikal
... my alarm finally did go off, so Wayne and I decided not to take the tour (apparently Wayne was secretly pleased it was raining, since he's more of a night person than a morning one). We later found out that it had stopped raining by the time it got to sunrise, but we would have got wet walking around, and we didn't bring proper wet wether gear on this holiday. ...
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