Hotel Dona Alida Livingston

... of thick jungle with various Maya ruins scattered throughout. It took us about 4 hours to do it and involved a few climbs up the temples, one of which I was very close to ******** myself it was so high and the steps to get there so steep but made it back down in one piece and the views from the top made it worth the effort.<br> From El Ramate we took a minibus to Coban and then on to Samuc Champey which was a further 3 hours on a dirt track and literally in the middle of ...

... attached video clips and secondly you enjoy them. Its me (in my world) living on the edge of serious injury and getting away with it and being a child again.<br>The waterfall jump is around 10 metres - pretty scary but now in the last week i have jumped from over 10 metres a number of times, an old hand you might say....<br><br>Hope everyone has a rope swing and river installed in their life on a monday morning as its ****ing awesome way to start the week.....<br>

... stayed up watching the most impressive lightening I&#8217;ve ever seen tonight &#8211; the whole sky lit up with huge forks crossing it (!)<br><br>Tomorrow we take a trip down the Rio Dulce &#8211; it&#8217;s supposed to be beautiful but a English couple we met today said they did it in the storm yesterday which was miserable. SO fingers crossed for another beautiful day tomorrow (well I&#8217;m not all that fussy as long as it doesn&#8217;t rain ;) )

... Rio Dulce), where an old Spanish Castle had been built, moat, drawbridge and all. The interesting thing about this Castle is that it is was situated on the lake to be a safe haven, just like Bruno,s. In the late 1500's Pirates found the area and attacked the castle, and burt it down to ruin's... so I guess it wasn't that safe. They ended up occupying the area for quite sometime after that. Hopefully I don't have Pirates coming into town!!! <br><br ...

... some at a hostel in Gua city, he takes us to the Litegua bus station and we roll up at 2:30p. I look at the board and see that the bus for Rio was at 1 and the next was at 4.30. I ask him if that is right in Spanish and he says he is going to ask. He can see that I am getting annoyed now and he starts trying to get out of there as soon as he can. Turns out there is a bus to Puerto Barrios tha stopss by one of the stops to Rio, leaving at 2.30. I was livid by this point because ...

... to be the first person ever to be struck by lightning in the waters of Semuc Champey? <br><br>A quick lunch--then off to the caves of Lanquín. Beautiful, enormous, dank, dark and slippery to the point of being extremely dangerous--they were everything you´d hope a set a caves would be. The caves were the final adventure for the day, after which I returned to Cobán and filled myself up, yet again, on churrascos from a truck near the plaza.<br><br>Day 3:<br><br>This ...

... and walked back down the jetty to the open air eating area in front of the kitchen - I had the chicken schnitzel with rice and veggies and it was gooood. I jumped from the highest ledge into the lake and swam to the platform that held a couple of deck chairs - really refreshing and the water was a perfect temp. After we stuffed ourselves we checked the place out - there was a community room above the kitchen that had a library, pool table, games, sky tv and ...

... then during the night I'd heard squeeking and wondered if I was sharing with rats. To my relief when I woke up in the morning I noticed a few bats hanging on the wall!! My room was open at the front so the bats were free to come and go as they pleased and they'd obviously decided my room was the perfect toilet for them!! Luckerly they only used one side of the room so my belongings were kept clean and dropping-free on the other ...

... feeling, travelers' tummy. It's diarrhea and stomach cramping/dizziness/general misery after you eat something, and it's inevitable. No matter how careful you try to be, you'll get it. Realizing that I would be out for a day or two, I spent most of the day in bed with one small trip into town to make a phone call and do some internet. That night, I scarfed down some noodles-- trying to eat as much as I could before feeling sick. I almost made it through the whole meal before ...

I was in Livingston many years ago but barely remember it. Now I know why. It's hot as Hell. Places on the sea coast aren&#8217;t always cool. You&#8217;ve got to have breezes for that. Most of those are over on the west Pacific coast, if you&#8217;re lucky. The bottom line is that at sea level you&#8217;re dead without them, or might as well be. <br><br>'I grew up in Mississippi. This is nothing,&#8217; I ...