Blogs from Livingston, Caribbean Coast, Guatemala, Central America Caribbean - page 5

Wow! Trip ultime dans le paradis tropical qu'est Livingston...tout ca s'est passe avant-hier sous un soleil de plomb. Nous nous sommes levees dans la bonne humeur extreme, car ca faisait longtemps qu'il n'avait pas fait aussi beau et quoi de plus beau que les caraibes sous le soleil! Nous avons donc quitte notre demeure, la casa de la Iguana le coeur leger pour aller passer l'apres-midi a la plage, une belle plage cette fois-ci. Nous savions que de la plage il etait possible de marcher environ une demi-heure pour se rendre a un petit parc regional nomme Siete Altares et ou l'on peut se baigner dans les chutes. Nous avons donc marche jusque la et nous n'avons pas regretter l'effort une seconde...c'etait tout simplement ma-la-de!!! C'etait comme dans les films...le 1er film de Tarzan a d'ailleurs ... read more

An der Karibikküste 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 ausgeprägter Garifuna Kulter (englischsprachige Afroamerikaner). Dort treffen wir bereits zum siebten Mal auf unserer Reise das Pärchen aus England (sind beide um die 50 Jahre alt). Die beiden sind wirklich lustig und nett und Colin hilft Lukas, schnell ein Zimmer zu finden. Währenddessen wartet Clara mit dem Gepäck und 3 "mittlealterlichen" Engländern bei ein, zwei Corona. In Livingstone entdecken wir ein kleines Restaurant, Tilingolingo. Die mexikanische Besitzerin Maria ist sehr exzentrisch und zu 100% von ihrer Küche ueberzeugt (Maria: I have the best coffee in town, my curry is sooooooo good, it's soooo tasty, the food of the other restaurants in town is lousy, lousy lousy). ... read more

On this day I at last did a tour. Not the informative one I had wanted but still a good one. After saving my limited money and buying bread for breakfast, we set of on a boat for the seven alters. These are yet another set of waterfalls and pools and the last of many seen on this trip, from Niagra Falls onwards. Despite having seen so many I still enjoyed it. At one place there was about a four metre drop into a pool that I jumped several times. We only stayed there about an hour then jetted off in the boat again whilst eagles, pelcians and Big Bird from Sesame Street sat around on the boats and dived for fish. We went to Playa Blanca and the sand lived up to the name. The ... read more

The next full day in Antigua, the ninth of september, was presidential election day, the day to which the whole country has been nuilding up to for the whole time I´ve been here. I wont keep you in suspense, UNE (whose leader is Colom, a centre left candidate who is running for the third time and who features on my UNE t-shirt won with a kiss - have I told that story before) and Partido Patriotica (led by a former General who Colom claims will return Guatemala to a military dictatorship) each got through to the next round which will be in November. No candidate got 50% of the vote so there has to be this other election. For the latest BBC news update see here. The election disrupted my day somewhat. I came across four ... read more

Today we piled into a boat for our trip down Rio Dulce to Livingston. Livingston is in Guatemala, but it's a garifun community founded somewhat by african slaves from shipwrecks or 'planted´along the coast by the British to work the sugar cane plantations. We started just east of the only bridge across Laka Izabal near the mouth of the Rio Dulce river which is fed by the lake. Rio Dulce is quite wide all the way to the Caribbean Ocean, so we saw alot of large boats docked along each side at times. Most of the banks were still quite wild and jungle-like. Along the way we stopped and coasted along the banks to observe some plants and wildlife. We spotted many egrits, water turkeys (anajingas I think) and a couple of vultures, plus a ... read more