Hi, we have put photo's with the last entries,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,please look. Luv ya. K and W. [View Full Entry]

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Huh... Syotiin P:n kanssa asken aivan jarisyttavan hyvia Gringaseja. Ovat tortillan tyylisia ja niita voisi vain syoda loputtomiin. Mentiin samaan katukiskaan 3 kertaa perakkain ja olivat aika otettuja meidan sapuskoinnista. Sen lisaksi vedettiin muualtakin hyvia juttuja, mutta ne olivat tahan mennessa reissun yllivoimaisia voittajia. Tuntuu, etta oltaisiin oltu reissussa jo kauan, koska New Yorkissa ei kaytannossa nukuttu lainkaan. Kaikki mujkaan tulleet isantiemme tutut totesivat minulle, etta onhan mulla housut. Olin P:lle manannutm, etten voi illalla lahtea mihinkaan kun ei ole kuin sh [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone, Leading up to my departure everyone i talked to kept telling me that this would be a life changing experience. It made sense, but at the same time it is hard to imagine yourself changing in such a short amount of time (the 5 1/2 months i am here). Little did i know it would happen within my first couple weeks here. Like i said in my first entry, the kids here with me really teach me a lot. A big life lesson i have already learned from them is that too often people long for the things they [View Full Entry]

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Iximché is a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the western highlands of Guatemala. The site's name, Iximché, dervives from the mayan words ixim (maize/corn) and ché (tree), resulting in "Place of the Maize tree." Iximché was the main city of the Kaqchikel Maya people, founded in the Razumiat mountains by Kikab the great in A.D. 1470 and after the abandonement of Chaviar, (Chichicastenango). The city was governed by four lords, Tzotzil, Xahil, Tucuché and Acajal, who were in charge of all administrative and religious affairs, including war. Very powerful energy on this maya sit [View Full Entry]

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Saturday morning started rather slowly and time ran away with us so packing was rather rushed and frantic, particularly as all the lights went out again while were doing it! After a hurried lunch we jumped in the minibus to take us to Chichicastenango, a small town about 3 hours away which is famous for its Sunday market. The journey was painless except for our sadness at leaving Xela - we watched Santa Maria dominate the horizon for some miles but eventually it disappeared. The minibus driver was not sure where our guest house was so I had to give him [View Full Entry]

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Our GAP group visited the bustling Sunday market of Chichicastenango. [View Full Entry]

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Chichi like everywhere else I have been in Guatemala so far is located in montains in a vally. It is a beautiful village, which is very famous for its Thursday and Sunday markets. If you want to go to Chichi, try to be there a night earlier so you can enjoy the morning when they are setting up for the mercado. [View Full Entry]

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With our guests Grammy, Brett, Christy and baby Charlotte, we decided to take a road trip out to Lake Atitlán, but included, for the first time, a side trip to Chichicastenango since we had never been there ourselves. (Our strategy for hosting guests usually includes taking them someplace that we ourselves have never been, to increase our opportunities to see more of the country!) Chichicastenango, or Chi-Chi for short, is a highland town about an hour's drive from the highway exit leading to Sololá on the way to Lake Atitlán, or about 3½ hours from Antigua. It is most known for [View Full Entry]

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Rachael has had great success with her blog and I haven't had much success with internet - speeds are very variable - so I thought I'd give it a whirl... We arrived in Guat after the journey from hell - 40 hours and then, in our wisdom, another 4 or so driving... fortunately sanity had prevailed and we'd ditched the idea of renting a car. We never would have got out of Guatemala City. Not to mention the fact that it got dark on the journey and we had an unexpected stop for half an hour for roadworks... However, it was [View Full Entry]

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At last! We finally made it. It felt like a very long time. We had a great flight to LA, and had several hours there, so took the bus to Santa Monica. It was incrediby cheap - normally only 75c but we didn´t have the right change, so the driver let us on for free!. We had a really lovely day there, quite cool, but not raining luckily. We wandered around Santa Monica, and then walked up to Venice Beach, stopping for lunch at a great little cafe, Urth. We´ll go back there on our way home. It was really nice [View Full Entry]

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