http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Lee-Kindler/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Lee Kindler en-us Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:24:18 +0000 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:24:18 +0000 Heres a video of the lava at Pacaya. They sell sticks and marshmallows. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Volcan-Pacaya/blog-397043.html Back in Antigua. We had a few spare days so we decided to spend a week travelling through Belize. No super special places but we had some great experiences chatting to the locals. It was a huge relief to be able to speak in English to find out information and to just have a proper conversation with some of the people.Garifuna culture is big in the costal towns. They have a interesting history http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Antigua-and-Barbuda/Antigua/blog-393114.html Just got back from the Tikal ruins. Havent had much luck with internet here but will post some photos next time. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Flores-Tikal/blog-389476.html Some photos from the trip. Almost had the camera pinched but it's worked a treat. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Copan-Ruins/blog-383460.html We're on yet another caribbean island Utila in Honduras this time full of divers. We met up with Donna's friends Carmo and Jenny and they went diving for a couple of days. I opted for the snorkelling.Quick update Back in Nicaragua... got robbed again in Somoto while we were swimming at the cayon... someone broke into our room and stole Donna's camera and all of her cards. Luckily they took http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Bay-Islands/Utila/blog-382870.html Weve just finished a Spanish course really hard work 1 on 1 with really old school teaching lots of word lists and grammar rules etc...We came back to our room one day and all our bags had been ransacked. They stole my camera and some money Donna had stashed. We told the hostel owner and she made a huge deal of it called the police and everything... Incidentally the 3rd police report that I http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Estel-/blog-378812.html Leons a real arty city... but its a bit hard to get whats going on as noone speaks any English. Great art gallery kind of an oasis in the middle of all the decaying colonial buildings... a guy walks in front of you and turns on the water fountains as you walk through the different rooms. Theyre pretty into their poet Ruben Dario theres countless statues of him round town and the main str http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Leon/blog-375974.html After countless hours on chicken buses river ferries a rickety 12 seater plane not to mention two police reports certain members of our party went missing for 12 hours later to be found stranded on El Bluff a shipping port 1km of the mainland of Bluefields. The police officer did have the coolest name Manuel Casanova we have emerged from the Corn Islands and back into civilisation. We hap http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Corn-Islands/blog-374969.html