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                    <title>The Side of Guatemala City That Most Tourists Don't See</title>
                    <description>Last time I came to Guatemala I like most tourists headed out of Guatemala City within a couple of days and went to Antigua and Lago Atitlan. I had no interest in this busy dirty polluted city. This time I came to Guatemala City because of a nutrition project I39ve heard friends talk about for three years. I wasn39t doing anything useful in the States and so it seemed like a good idea to</description>
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                    <title>Montessori in Guatemala</title>
                    <description>When I arrived in Guatemala I was unsure what I would be doing here. I hoped to volunteer for UPAVIM  Unidas Para Vivir Major United for a Better Life which is a cooperative of 80 women who make fair trade Guatemalan crafts to sell to the US. They also have a soy dairy and bakery in which they sell low cost high quality foods to the community. With these two industries they fund a medical </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/Guatemala-City/blog-745162.html</link>
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                    <title>A New View of Panajachel</title>
                    <description>The last time I visited to Panajachel 2005 I only saw a tourist trap. Booth after booth with tourist kitsch for sale with jacked up prices line the streets. Many of the items are made in China. This time I stayed with my friend Maria who has a house in Panajachel but also lives in Texas. We flew down to Guatemala together and she invited me to visit her in Pana. Maria is originally from Guatem</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Western-Highlands/Panajachel/blog-741572.html</link>
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                    <title>Reminding myself I can do it...</title>
                    <description>I want to see at least little of Guatemala while Im here and I had the opportunity to stay with a friend in Panajachel. A guy I know told me I could go with him and he could show me how to get to the bus. He had a couple of meetings in towns along the way but said I could tag along. I decided that in order to not inconvenience him I would check into a room at his hotel so we could go together </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/Guatemala-City/blog-741569.html</link>
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                    <title>Montessori in the Barrio</title>
                    <description>Ive been helping out in a class in a Montessori based kindergarten here at UPAVIM which has been an exciting experience for me. This is a school not unlike the school Maria Montessori started in the slums of Rome in 1906. There aren39t many materials but a great interest in improving the lives of children in a poor neighborhood. These teachers here have little Montessori training and not ve</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/Guatemala-City/blog-739585.html</link>
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                    <title>The Side of Guatemala City That Most Tourists Don't See</title>
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                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/Guatemala-City/blog-738130.html</link>
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                    <title>Aw do I HAVE to go home</title>
                    <description>I39m on my way home tomorrow so this is my last entry. I don39t want to go. There have been too many different things to see and do here. When I left Utila I took the most direct route I could back to Guatemala City. It was a long days bus ride to Copan and found that there was no other transport until the next day so I settled in and had a very nice relaxing dinner in a vegetarianish resta</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/Guatemala-City/blog-736167.html</link>
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                    <title>One more day added to the trip ... I got bumped</title>
                    <description>I didn39t make it home today. I volunteered to get bumped off the flight in El Salvador so that I can come back. I don39t go home until tomorrow. So TACA has put me up in a VERY nice hotel where I39ll sit by the pool and afterwards take a real hot shower with real water pressure. Of coruse I get all my meals as well. Unfortunately the hotel is too far away from the city to explore anythin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/El-Salvador/Central/San-Salvador/blog-736170.html</link>
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                    <title>Scuba diving in the Bay Islands</title>
                    <description>So here I am on Utila which is an Island about an hour39s ferry ride off the Honduran coast. I got here and immediately felt like I was home. There is something about this place that reminds me of Anna Maria Island when I was a child. It39s mainly untouched but getting close to being overrun in the next couple of years by people who want to make a lot of money off the beach front property.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Bay-Islands/Utila/blog-736161.html</link>
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                    <title>Copn Ruins and La Cieba Honduras</title>
                    <description>Well I39m in a funky hotel here in La Cieba Honduras waiting to catch the boat to the Island of Utila tomorrow morning. It39s really hot and humid here which I39m not used to lately. I don39t have guide book for this town so I39m winging it and thus the funky hotel. It39s only one night. I hear that computer costs are sky high on the island which is an hour ferry ride from he</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Northern/La-Ceiba/blog-736007.html</link>
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                    <title>Macadamia Farm  Valhalla</title>
                    <description>I got to Antigua in one piece after a little excitement in the shuttle van. see photoOnce I got here and checked into a hotel I went out looking for a chicken bus to a macadamia finca plantation that I wanted to see last time I was here but was too afraid to ride the bus by myself. I got there and enjoyed a tour af the farm. This was a tour that most of you would have liked. We toured the pla</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/Antigua/blog-735980.html</link>
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                    <title>Lago Atitlan</title>
                    <description>I got here to the town of Panajachel yesterday and immediately found a cute hotel and fell asleep. I had an tiring day on a series of chicken buses getting here. It wasn39t bad just long. After a long nap I looked around the town which isn39t much to speak of. It39s a gringo tourist town with booth after booth lining the streets with Mayan Mexican and Caribbean tourist kitsch hotels </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Western-Highlands/Lago-de-Atitlan/blog-735973.html</link>
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                    <title>Yo subo un volcn  Tajamulco</title>
                    <description>Ok so this may not have be the trip for most of you... but the experience was worth the effort for me. I don39t know what to leave out so you can just do the editing for yourselves.On Friday evening met as a group at Quetzaltrekkers and got our gear backpacks sleeping bags food eating utensils tents etc. We had 15 people in the group including the two guides. My pack wasn39t so heavy </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Western-Highlands/Volc-n-Tajamulco/blog-735962.html</link>
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                    <title>Please disregard last blog update</title>
                    <description>I was moving my blog from one website to another. This was an entry from 2005. Sorry to clog up you email boxes.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/Austin/blog-735959.html</link>
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                    <title>Markets finishing classes and shaky beds</title>
                    <description>Last night I woke up and felt my bed shake a bit. I asked about it and it was a small earthquake. It was nothing of consequence for those that have felt them in California and places like that but enough to remind me of the forces of the earth that control a lot of the history here. The other student staying in my house was asleep and didn39t believe me when I asked about it. Apparently last </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Western-Highlands/Quetzaltenango/blog-735955.html</link>
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                    <title>OOPS</title>
                    <description>In an effort to upload my pictures I accidentally deleted a very long Blog entry. I hope some of you saw it. I39m not writing it again but to sum up...We went to the Champerico which is a small town by the beach. It was nice but of course rustic. On the way back we went to an archeological site. It was small but enspired me to see something bigger...Tikal. Moved to a new family because I di</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Pacific-Coast/blog-735935.html</link>
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                    <title>Everything including the kitchen sink</title>
                    <description>Well the school has kept me pretty busy. I study during the day and and then there is some sort of activity in the evening such as watching a movie in Spanish going to a museum going to the baths I39ll explain. The best school activity so far was going to the hot baths about a 20 minute ride on the chicken bus see photo which was an adventure in itself. The baths are hot volcanic spri</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Western-Highlands/Quetzaltenango/blog-735923.html</link>
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                    <title>A Postcard from Antigua</title>
                    <description>Im here in Antigua finally a day late after the airline saw fit to send me my luggage. I had to fuss a bit but I got it last night and hauled out this morning in a shuttle here.OH MY GOD THIS PLACE IS BEAUTIFUL Antigua is a colonial town in the central highlands of Guatemala. There are cobblestone streets colonial style churches some of wich were destroyed by earthquakes a couple of hundred </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/Antigua/blog-735905.html</link>
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                    <title>Settling down Xela</title>
                    <description>Happy 4th of July I hope this finds you well. For Independence Day I39ve decided to exercise my patriotic duty to be independent and go to another country and learn the language and culture here. I arrived here yesterday and met the family that I am staying with here in Xela aka Quelzeltenango. Xela is bigger and not as pretty as Antigua but it has its charms in what you might experience i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Western-Highlands/Quetzaltenango/blog-735914.html</link>
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                    <title>On Hold in Guatemala City</title>
                    <description>This one is short. The cost of internet here is 4 an hour so I have to type fast. I will write more when I get to a cheaper spot outside Guatemala City. Got here last night but unfortunately my luggage hasnt left the States yet. Apparently this is very common I guess the airlines dont consider cothing and personal belongings a necessity when you come to Guatemala. Im hoping to get it tonig</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Capital-Region/Guatemala-City/blog-735903.html</link>
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