Blogs from Guatemala City, Capital Region, Guatemala, Central America Caribbean - page 13

Kiitokset kommenteista! Ei ole munuaista viety toistaiseksi ja joo, ehkapa joku eri luokan auto tulee vuokrattua viela. Lento Dallasista Guatemalaan oli tietenkin puolitoista tuntia myohassa ties mista syysta ja myohainen saapuminen venyi taas vielakin pitemmalle. Olin kuitenkin aamulla internetin aareen paastyani tehnyt varauksen lentokentan lahella olevaan guesthouseen ja pakettiin sisaltyi jopa nouto kentalta joten ei ongelmaa. Asian helpolla tavalla minut sai tekemaan lahinna se etta joka ikinen tietolahde kauhisteli paikan vaarallisuutta pimean aikaan... Kentalla kuski olikin vastassa ja samaan kyytiin samalta lennolta oli tulossa myos jenkkipariskunta joka oli tullut harjoittelemaan espanjan kielen taitojaan. Kellon ollessa paljon painuin majoituksessa suoraan nukkumaan ja aamulla sitten hetken tuuminnan tuloksena paatin hankkia halvempaa majoitusta keskeisemmalta paikalta (tam... read more

What a way to begin the year of travel. Anytime before 8am is not good for me unless I am coming back from a blackjack table with a pocket full of greens...which has occurred in Palm Springs, Tahoe, Vegas and Montreal this year... Not bad for one year. Anyway, the early early wakeup and 2 flts gave me time to contemplate a few rules of the road for the year.... 1)NO MORE FLTS before 10am 2)DO talk to strangers 3)Pack light and then reduce by 50% 4)Never say never 5)Go local...food, music, people etc 6)Avoid long crazy bus rides 7)Do learn a few basic phrases in local language 8)Don't follow all the rules all the time I am sure I will be adding to this list but that is at least the starting point for now. ... read more

After the full day-trip to Tikal, Luke and I weren't sure that we would be up for hiking up Pacaya to see the volcano and its lava flows. So, for much of the morning on Sunday we kind of loafed around the hotel... we also walked to nearby mall also stopped by a Pizza Hut for an early lunch. Sometime in the early afternoon we began to reconsider the trip up to Pacaya... why not? We were feeling well and rested. So we headed to the lobby to talk to the concierge and/or hotel staff about catching a cab to Pacaya and back. Thankfully, we ran into one of my Spanish speaking co-workers who also happens to enjoy negotiating. :) He talked to a cab driver and went back and forth for a bit and was ... read more

Our tour finished today! One month of sharing a room with a stranger with crazy habits is finally over. I've been ready for this tour to finish for about a week. Four weeks of ruin after ruin is heavy stuff. A change of scene in Honduras is just what I need. After saying goodbye to the people I've spent most of my time with for the past four weeks, I took a shuttle to Guatemala City. It's labelled as a dangerous city but driving through it, it looks like any other Latin American capital city. I'm happy to be back in a hostel environment -- I miss doing my own laundry! -- and the hostel I'm at is wonderful (Hostel los Lagos). It's close to the airport but when I asked the owner (an older couple) ... read more

Our travel to Guatemala went just as planned. It is really only 7 hours of flying plus a 2 hour layover in Dallas on the way down. We landed in Guatemala City at about 8pm on the 8th and stayed the night at an airport hotel because they had a shuttle for us. It is a good option for a quick overnight with a local feel and free breakfast. The morning of the 9th, Hugo Suarez of Expeditions Guatemala picked us up and delivered us to our house in Antigua. Last year when we came to visit, we stayed in the same neighborhood so we knew roughly where we’d be but we hadn’t seen this particular house before. It is really terrific with 4 bedrooms a garden that is inside the walls of the house and ... read more