http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Livingstone/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Guatemala , Livingstone en-us Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:58:27 BST Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:58:27 BST 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Livingstone/blog-267200.html little jamaica they call it no need to explain why the pictures say a lot... we made friends with one of the locals and spent the night with him discovering this little island. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Livingstone/blog-265166.html Livingstone can be reached by boat only. You can take a boat from Puerto Borias Rio Dulce or from Belice. Since I was coming from Hundoras I took the boat from Puerto Borias. On my way out to Rio Dulce I stayed 2 nights in Finca Tatin which is in the middle of the rain forest. The days were hot and nights rainy. This little mixed city of Livingstone is filled with Mayans Garifunas and whit http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Livingstone/blog-248812.html An der Karibikkste kommen wir zuerst in Puerto Barrios an und nehmen von dort ein Boot nach Livingstone ist nur per Boot erreichbar. Livingstone ist ein kleines karibisches Dorf mit ausgeprgter Garifuna Kulter englischsprachige Afroamerikaner. Dort treffen wir bereits zum siebten Mal auf unserer Reise das Prchen aus England sind beide um die 50 Jahre alt. Die beiden sind wirklich lustig u http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Livingstone/blog-221654.html Another weekend with the Spaniards. We only started planning this trip on Wednesday and left on Thursday........ I convinced Gemma that bringing her guidebook would be a good idea it is also a lonely planet but in Spanish saves me some work explaining. She agreed but them continued to leave it on the bus when we arrived The bus journey to Puerto Barrios the eastiest place to head close to t http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Livingstone/blog-75564.html Friday 0400 Very tired I leave mi casa in Antigua and get on a bus heading to the Caribbean side of Guatemala. I'm with some of the people I was with the week before Kiyomi we're travelling together for the whole of the next week Eric Sigrid and Lindia. Plus a few more Nick from Australia Matt American and Kata also from Iceland. The three Icelandic girls speak pretty much only http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Livingstone/blog-67953.html Finally managed to tear myself away from Roatan and make my way to Guatemala. I only had a week left and wanted to pack in as much as I could enough lazing around on beautiful Caribbean beaches and waving at the fishies it was time to up the pace and experience some Guatemalan kulture innitI was fortunate to acquire another travel buddy for my last leg of the journey Calvin from Roatan who w http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Livingstone/blog-60056.html Hola AmigosHoewel het inmiddels 9 januari is en ik ver van Guatemala ben toch een korte up date.Op 30 december na een laatste Spaanse les en na het afscheid nemen van mijn vrienden daar zijn we Enrico en ik uit Antigua vertrokken op weg naar Rio Dulce. Helaas ging dat niet helemaal zoals gepland waardoor we pas tegen 12 uur in Rio Dulce aankwamen in plaats van rond een uur of 89 Het hote http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Livingstone/blog-34849.html On arrival in Livingstone on first sight there seemed few of the Garifunas about which were meant to populate the town. In one of those typical tourist type ways development gives you some of the services you want but by doing so removes what you came to see. Theres is no real reason why this has to be the case but through rampant Capitalism and lack of sustainable development this is often the http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Livingstone/blog-34328.html