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                    <title>Independence Day Oaxaca Mexico</title>
                    <description>Another eleven hours this time on a luxury bus and I arrived in Oaxaca. I booked myself into a nice wee hostal and went about finding Steph and her mates. Again I could see straight away that Oaxaca was a beautiful colonial city with landmarks parks and churches everywhere. My first day was spent walking around the town taking in the sites and we ended up in some little bar called La Costumbr</description>
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                    <title>San Cristobal de las Casas Chiapas Mexico</title>
                    <description>Twelve hours on three different buses from Guatemala City and I finally arrived in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas Mexico. I had planned to meet up with Stephanie a friend of mine from New Zealand that I met in Rio Dulce so I headed straight for the  Posada Ganesha  the hostal she was staying in. Even from that first stroll through the town I could see it was amazingly beautiful everywhe</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Chiapas/San-Cristobal-de-las-Casas/blog-324016.html</link>
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                    <title>Adios Casa Guatemala Adios Rio Dulce</title>
                    <description>Yesterday morning I finally left Rio Dulce for this year at least. It was strange really strange but in a strange way. It still didn't feel like I was actually leaving. Of course we had the usual leaving party and leaving dinner it was also Montse's leaving do the long serving volunteer coordinator along with Arturo one of the teachers from Spain. So we all got up on the bar and danced to t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Caribbean-Coast/Rio-Dulce/blog-320164.html</link>
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                    <title>Sundog Caf Rio Dulce</title>
                    <description>Just thought I'd give a quick mention for the best bar and restaurant in town. And its not just because I'm working with them it really is the best in town thats why we went there every wednesday and saturday for dinner and beers while still at the orphanage. It does the best food including an extensive sandwich range done on home baked bread which is famous throughout the town and ordered dail</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Caribbean-Coast/Rio-Dulce/blog-320151.html</link>
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                    <title>My New Home</title>
                    <description>So my new job offer... I was asked by a couple of Dutch people I know that run the Sundog Caf in Rio Dulce town if I wanted to help them out taking care of their new hostal about 5 minutes up river. As there are only two of them if they took one business each they would never get a day off so the idea was that I would stay with the hostal they can run the caf between them and cover for me</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Caribbean-Coast/Rio-Dulce/blog-320141.html</link>
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                    <title>A week of Luxury</title>
                    <description>Big sorry about the lack of blogs been a bit of a mad month. Another month in the orphanage means another  descanso  this time I headed off to the City with Andrs Montse and Quique the first time me and Andrs have been allowed on  descanso  together ever since we were both english teachers. So to start off we headed up to his house in the city for a night. After having spent a bit more ti</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/Guatemala-City/blog-316168.html</link>
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                    <title>Antigua Guatemala</title>
                    <description>We arrived in Antigua Friday morning and waited for the rest of the volunteers to arrive who were coming down for one last blow out with the Madrileos. By saturday night we were eleven people and headed out to wreck the town. Good night good send off and I was back to the orphanage by sunday night.Didn't see a lot of Antigua to be honest nice bars and restaurants lovely town with original co</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/Antigua/blog-291738.html</link>
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                    <title>Xela</title>
                    <description>Two hours on a chicken bus from the lake and we arrive in Xela otherwise known as Quetzaltenango the second largest city in Guatemala and probably the nicest. Not a lot to do here as a tourist but we got a pick up truck up one of the mountains to some natural hot springs and pools known as  Las Fuentes Georginas . Lovely day out well worth the 30 min ride up the mountain through the clouds. Al</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Western-Highlands/Quetzaltenango/blog-291735.html</link>
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                    <title>End of an Era</title>
                    <description>After spending every hour of every day with the other volunteers here we end up being almost like a family. So when some of the longer term ones leave its a bit tough not only because we end up doing more work until new volunteers come but because we really miss them around the house. This month six of those special people have left us Miguel  Lara the couple from Madrid their good friend Pil</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Western-Highlands/Lago-de-Atitlan/blog-291715.html</link>
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                    <title>Diving in Utila</title>
                    <description>Second descanso and I was headed off to Honduras to go scuba diving just off Utila in the Bay Islands. We thought it was a shorter trip but ended up taking us about 2 days due to a pretty poor infrastructure along the coast. So we ended up stopping off in San Pedro Sula which was nothing really to talk about had a pizza from Pizza Hut and head on to La Ceiba in the morning to catch the ferry to </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Bay-Islands/Utila/blog-276375.html</link>
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                    <title>Rio Dulce</title>
                    <description>We headed back up the Rio Dulce and Javier jumped out at the orphanage I decided to head back to the Hotel for a couple of days to chill out before going back to work since really after working 7 weeks I was entitled to 2 weeks off. On Tuesday morning I planned to head to Finca el Paraiso a natural paradise where to river join one cold and the other hot. The hot one comes along above the cold </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Caribbean-Coast/Rio-Dulce/blog-267204.html</link>
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                    <title>Livingston</title>
                    <description>Saturday night in Placencia we decided we needed to head back to work so we got up early on Sunday and headed down to Punta Gorda to get a  lancha  bacically a small boat that holds about 20 people at the most and sits about 30cm above the water back to Livingston in Guatemala. It may as well have been bucketing down because every wave we went through sprayed over the entire boat every row of s</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Caribbean-Coast/Livingston/blog-267200.html</link>
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                    <title>The Caribbean</title>
                    <description>Our bus took us to the capital of Belize Belmopan as we weren't planning on staying here we quickly found out the bus times for the coast and went for some lunch. For those that don't know Belize used to be part of Guatemala but was then taken by the English a couple of hundred years ago. The majority of the population are Spanish speaking native americans but they also have a high percentage o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Belize/Stann-Creek-District/Placencia-Village/blog-264863.html</link>
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                    <title>Tikal</title>
                    <description>Easter Monday morning five of us set of on our  descanso  our week long monthly break Pilar Lara Miguel Javier and myself. We got the 10.30 bus from Rio Dulce to Flores in the north of Guatemala. The bus ride was my worst yet we were standing for half of it all squashed in like sardines in a can gripping onto what ever you can to stay upright. After about 4 hours we arrived in Flores a s</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Peten-Region/Flores/blog-262482.html</link>
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                    <title>Aldea Nueva Rio Frio</title>
                    <description>From time to time some doctors will plan visits to do checks on all the kids from the orphanage and anyone from the surrounding jungle villages or Aldeas. So when Xavier the volunteer doctor heard that a dentist and a dermotologist were coming he planned a trip into the jungle to tell some people from the Aldeas to come visit for various skin and mouth problems he knew of. He asked me if I wanted </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Caribbean-Coast/Rio-Dulce/blog-258996.html</link>
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                    <title>Carnival y Fiestas</title>
                    <description>Apologies again we had a problem with the internet back at the orphanage so haven't got online in a while. Quite a lot has happened since the last blog mostly fiestas parties or celebrations. First one up was Carnival its basically like a kids version of the carnival that they have in Brazil and every other Latin American country except it was a month after Guatemala's Carnival due to the sc</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Caribbean-Coast/Rio-Dulce/blog-258409.html</link>
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                    <title>Aldea de las Brisas</title>
                    <description>Aldea de las Brisas or Brisas as its known here is the closest jungle village. Not a lot to say about it really since its so small but I just wanted to put some photos up of it as it is lovely. All the houses are made out of bamboo and reeds and inside they are just one large room usually for a family of at least 5 people.This is where we come to get away from the orphanage for a couple of hours.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Caribbean-Coast/Rio-Dulce/blog-249006.html</link>
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                    <title>Casa Guatemala</title>
                    <description>Wow Where do I start I love this place Sorry about the delay on the update but I've been kept pretty busy since I arrived and we only have electricity for the internet a couple of hours a day. No complaints though I really do love it hereOk so I arrived to find out that the coordinator has changed her mind and is now staying for another few months at least so I didnt get the admin job. Inst</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Caribbean-Coast/Rio-Dulce/blog-248759.html</link>
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                    <title>Hotel Backpackers</title>
                    <description>The flight to Guatemala City was an uneventful one. I arrived in Guatemala City without having printed off the instructions on how to get to the orphanage like the eejit that I am. But I remembered that there were 2 bus companies that could get me where I needed to go. So I found a taxi and asked the driver which bus company still ran to Rio Dulce after 5pm and of course he brought me to the wro</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Caribbean-Coast/Rio-Dulce/blog-244328.html</link>
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                    <title>Tacos y Tequila</title>
                    <description>Greetings saludos welcome to my first travel blog. Call me lazy if you want but it seemed like the easiest way to keep eveyone posted on my travels so dont complain if u dont get an email. As most of you know I have just set off to complete my placement year for uni. After such a warm welcome in Spain I decided to take my travels to Central America so I booked a ticket for Guatemala with an</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Distrito-Federal/Mexico-City/blog-244242.html</link>
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