The answer is one more. No honestly it's true. I feel i should share an interesting experience with you. On a recent trip to a market town - Chichicastenango (3 hours away from where we were in Lago de Atitlan) we were on a 36 seater bus but peaked at more than 70 people. We both unfortunatley ended up as the third person on a two person seat and then a rather rotund lady decided she would squeeze in the middle of the seats which is only 30cm wide and wedge herself. This actually was quite comfortable for me as i [View Full Entry]

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Well we made it. Last night the flight from texas to guatemala was delayed over 2 hours, some girl lost her passport and was not allowed to board the plane, so they had to find her luggage and remove it off the plane.. Meaning loading all the luggage back on the plane. Yikes. Well we made it safe. It was a little dicey, some drunk cab driver had a sign with our names on it and drove us to this hostel with barb wire fences, and huge concrete walls. No one spoke english and we found ourselves in a roach infested [View Full Entry]

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Hello again, Well you will have to hang tight for pictures. Apparently i didnt pack the cord that connects the camera to the computer, so until i find one in one of the many markets (yes they will have one, the markets have everything) you are out of luck for pictures. But we are taking some, mostly alot of mental pictures though. So, we left Antigua on.... ummm on friday? Im starting to loose the days already. We headed south to Monterrico. Again, on the crazy chicken bus. They call it the chicken bus, because as you can imagine, they transport [View Full Entry]

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Just our luck that the directo shuttle didn´t 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 seat, so after an hour looping around the village we finally had enough people to leave. This hour wasn´t boring as we learnt a new Guatemalan game of which we think we were in a winning team. This game goes by the name of "How Many People can you fit in a Minivan" and by the time we had left there [View Full Entry]

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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 covers the time from oaxaca, mexico up till we met with arin and kelli in akumal, mexico. basically we drove a lot in order to make it to a & k on time...from oaxaca we had an amazing drive to hierva del agua, a set of petrified waterfalls that the mayans considered a sacred site. the next day we entered the volatile state [View Full Entry]

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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 overview of our time up till flores...here's my two cents on top of that.... ...cenotes are amazing (they are sinkholes that have filled with water and created underwater caves with stalactites and unique fish) ...we have been sitting on our butts for too long (a day of swimming, biking and hiking really tuckered us out) ...dirt roads with the loads that we are carrying are really [View Full Entry]

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Back to internet so time for an update on whats been happening. Leaving Flores our 5 hour directo bus turned out to be anything but. After 5 hours we pulled into a larger than expected town but were pleased to finally be there. You can imagine our surprise when we suddenly realized we had sailed 1.5hrs past our turn off in order to drop half the collectivo (minibus) off. Just to add to our smiles and head shaking the driver dropped us in a car park outside a shopping mall while we waited for him to pop home for lunch his [View Full Entry]

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We left Mexico with a long slow drive to the border. Roads aren't too bad here but when they have speed bumps at every village that are only a couple of Kms apart, it is quite a long drive. Our trip seemed to incur multiple additional costs which left us a bit annoyed and our driver was particularly rude. To cross into Guatemala we had to take a boat ride in a long dug out canoe for 30mins up the Rio Usumacinta. Our bus driver in Guatemala couldn't have been more different than the one we had left in Mexico. He [View Full Entry]

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Hola People I have been here in Xela for 4 weeks. This is my fourth week and i have been working at a private clinic with four doctors for 2 weeks and at a private specialist hospital for a week. My jefe or boss is Dr. Jose and i have been shadowing his every move when i am at the clinic. He is a pediatrician and his wife is a physical therapist and i have had the opportunity to shadow the both of them. For the first two weeks of working at the clinic, i went monday through thursday from 3 [View Full Entry]

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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 Pilar, Ana, another Madrider, Maria from Andalucia, and one of the longest term volunteers, Quique from Galicia. The three Madrileños left because their time was up [View Full Entry]

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