Background: The Maya civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experienced a variety of military and civilian governments as well as a 36-year guerrilla war. In 1996, the government signed a peace agreement formally ending the conflict, which had left more than 100,000 people dead and had created some 1 million refugees.
July 26th 2008Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Antigua » Antigua Well..... here we are!!! It has been almost a year since my last blog entry, so I am feeling a little bit rusty. After almost 5 months of anticipation we are finally no longer counting down the days ... [full story]
July 21st 2008Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Antigua » Antigua Round of applause please! As of Thursday 17th July 2008, the Family Mixto Paxel now have a brand new home to live in! We finished off the house by adding the door, window, roof and painting the outsid ... 24 photos[full story]
July 19th 2008Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Antigua » Antigua Phew!
!ve just completed 4 days of Spanish school! When in Rome...Antigua is reknown for its Spanish schools so I thought I'd try to learn something more than my dodgy French and vague Italian, court ... [full story]
June 27th 2008Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Antigua » Antigua So now we are in Guatemala, not straight from Barcelona we had 10 days in U.K visiting my family and then 2 weeks in the U.S visiting Kens. Had a fantastic time but both of us are absolutely burnt out ... 8 photos[full story]
July 13th 2008Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Antigua » Antigua Of course, this trip isnīt entirely about sitting in bars and drinking, although the carribbean is only a short flight away - idea! The main reason why Iīm out here is to work with the organisation "H ... 18 photos[full story]
July 2nd 2008Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Antigua » Antigua Just our luck that the directo shuttle didnīt have the numbers to run to Antigua. So we were up at 5.30 to get the 6am shuttle to Coban. Getting up when the shuttle is due only assures you have a se ... 8 photos[full story]
June 29th 2008Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Antigua » Antigua so really the best part of this entry is the photos...four different people taking hundreds of photos...we tried to choose a nice little bouquet for all ya'll. so lindsie was able to give a quick ove ... 38 photos[full story]
June 29th 2008Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Antigua » Antigua in antigua, guatemala. it has been a while, but lindsie and i are doing well and going to try and catch everyone up on the past month or so (and more importantly post some photos). this little post ... 10 photos[full story]
June 25th 2008Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Antigua » Antigua 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 Madrileņos. By saturday night we were eleven people and hea ... 4 photos[full story]
May 22nd 2008Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Antigua » Antigua This is quite a short blog. It covers about three weeks. We spent most of it in Antigua, Guatemala doing a Spanish course. The rest was rushing through central America getting to Panama to fly over to ... 15 photos[full story]
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