Blogs from Livingston, Caribbean Coast, Guatemala, Central America Caribbean - page 6

After leaving the farm in far more relaxed style than we arrived ( taken down river in a boat by some neighbours - nice) we crossed the border into Guatemala by boat to Livingston. But only after Tash attempted to order us some breakfast before we got on the boat, which was proof that we needed to improve our Spanish: we had seen what looked like a little shop selling hot food and cold soft drinks, ideal for a quick breakfast, Tash went and ordered some meat taco´s and a couple of cokes and and ended up with some dry tortillas and two cups of watery lime juice. yummy! we know the shop did sell real food because everyone else was eating nice breakfasts!! Anyway, after going through the "strict" (optional) border controls at the port ... read more

All the photos from the last two blogs are up. Have at you. I realize I've used references constantly to movies, songs, tv shows and other ridiculous pop culture icons making this entire trip seem like an attempt to relive a truly fantastic weekend couch-potato homage to my adolescence. However, today I went to an actual Pirate fort in Rio Dulce, built in the 1640's to defend the principal Spanish towns in Guatemala. However, it seems the castle was sacked no less than four times, and even briefly served as a Pirate-controlled fort. I loved pirate history. My mother can attest to the many hours I spent playing a pirate video game, sailing from Havana to Campeche in search of Pirate booty (contest: wittiest use of the preceding sentence gets published on the blog). So this ... read more

Hello Friends, Its been some time since my last letter. But that time has been intense. After my free coffee letter I learned what coffee is really like. We went to a coffee plantation in Coban. We recieved a tour of the facility, learned all about coffee picking a production, and in the end were given more free coffee, and the option to buy. Our guide even said, ´´if you want some unground coffee, just tell the boys, and they won´t grind your before they put it in a bag.´´ It was a fully functioning production plant of some of the best coffee in the world. Needless to say, I was impressed. We also made our way down to a serene little place called "Semuc Champey," what the locals call the 8th Wonder of the ... read more

I love the garifauna poeple they are friendly and inviting, but a little devious and why not they see so much money floating around our heads and bodies that you can{t blame them too much for wanting to take advantage of our affluence. It is great to be out of the rat race. It makes me sick to think of how much I have and how much these people do not have. All these poeple not just the Garifauna. We decided to travel thru to Guatemala right away. It is tres expensive in Belize. Not to say it isnt a beau place to visit but not when you have a budget and every hotle room is the same price as say New Orleans when it was dry and clean, dig. We arrived in Livingston yesterday and ... read more

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, innit! I was fortunate to acquire another travel buddy for my last leg of the journey: Calvin from Roatan who was on a visa run, which means having to leave Honduras for a week or so to renew it. We set off on the 6am ferry to the mainland at La Ceiba where we got into a taxi to the bus station. The taxi started to cough and splutter - it had run out of petrol and finally conked out only ... read more