12/05/09 Yesterday we spent the day in Antigua, it is a beautiful colonical city surrounded by 3 volcanos. Although it is a city there are no highrise buildings and the parque central is a pretty little square with the cathedral at one end. We started by wandering around the streets looking in the various artisan shops at the handicrafts available. The woven blankets are beautiful and we were very tempted but they are expensive and we plan to have a look in the markets. After lunch we went to the Cathedral. It has been hit by 2 earthquakes and so the [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday we spent the day at Samuc Champey and the Kan'ba caves. This is where the bulk of the Rio Cahabon cuts underground creating a suspended limestone bridge forming the series of pools and waterfalls that are Samuc Champey. We started the day in the Kan'ba caves doing a tour by candlelight. This turned out to be walking and climbing through the caves whilst holding a stubby candle as our only source of light. The caves were partly underwater so at times we were swimming one handed whilst trying to keep our candles alight and aviod all of the rocks that [View Full Entry]

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So our first blog entry has been some time in coming but here it is! We finally made it to Guatemala City on the evening of 4th May, the hostel we had booked for our first night was very good and picked us up from the airport, pointed us in the direction of a money changer and generally sorted us out. The guidebook advertised it as a hostel in the safe neighbourhood of the city. This turned out to be in an armed compound, army style! In addition to the armed guards and barbed wire fence surrounding it, each hostel or [View Full Entry]

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