Blogs from Pacific Coast, Guatemala, Central America Caribbean - page 2

Saturday 20/10/12 – We got up before the sun and headed to the most well-known of the Guatemalan ruins: Tikal. As we were on the road at sunrise there was plenty of wildlife – I managed to brush a few feathers off a chicken with my bike. There was the most beautiful tarantula crossing the road luckily on a spot where we could stop. We ran back and snapped a few photos; it was so stunning that I wasn’t even scared despite being just a foot or two from it. Its long legs were super-hairy and its abdomen had the most amazing red hair, it didn’t seem concerned by us in the least. It was about the size of my outstretched hand, but surprisingly not creepy. We decided to go on a guided tour of the ... read more

Within half an hour of receiving the Guatemala stamp in our passport, our bus came to a halt and we wondered what had gone wrong. A landslide had occurred on the mountain road that we were taking from Mexico to Guatemala and we spent the next three hours sat waiting for the rocks to be cleared from the road – welcome to Guatemala! Whilst this was a minor inconvenience for us disrupting the traffic and our onward journey for a few hours it was totally scary what these frequent landslides are doing to the lives of the indigenous mountain communities who live here. There were huge boulders from the landslide lying in peoples gardens, up against their houses and the whole scene looked like it could turn into one huge disaster some day. Houses were perched ... read more

From Antigua we caught another shuttle to the Pacific Coast and Monterrico. Monterrico was a tiny fishing village with a long black volcanic beach. This place was hot, very very hot. The beach was really nice although it was hard to walk on the scalding sands in the day. We had a golden lab following us around for most of our time in Monterrico so she appears in alot of our photos. It was my first time in the Pacific ocean and it did not disappoint. The waves were 5-6 feet high and chucked us about like rag dolls. . The backwash was so powerful it kept pulling us back into these massive waves, it was pretty scary stuff. In Monterrico we had our first taste of Ceviche, whcih is acold salad of shrimps cooked in ... read more

Hi! Welcome to my blog! I’m Gorf (did you know that’s “frog” backwards?). I’m from Tauranga, New Zealand, and I’m travelling the world! It’s very exciting! I hope all sorts of people will read my blog, including our friends and family back home, and their children, and maybe even new friends we meet in various parts of the world. Feel free to pass on the link to your friends if you think they’d be interested. It is winter in New Zealand at the moment and its cold, so it was difficult to pack for warm weather. I decided to save space in my luggage and take no clothes - if I find some cool clothes that fit me on my travels, then I will have plenty of space for them in my bag. Unlike my travelling ... read more

Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, a 31 de agosto del 2009. Saludos a todos (y todas): Aprovecho estos momentos para saludarlos desde estas verdes tierras guatemaltecas. Dado que perdì mi USB no anexo fotos de Tapachula, paso previo al cruce fronterizo, pero el centro imagìnenselo como el centro de La Paz pero con calles muy muy estrechas (un carril para carros estacionados y otro para carros en circulaciòn), lo cual hace que el tràfico sea de la patada. La plaza central es chica, con vendedores ofreciendo "root beer" natural en bolsitas con popote (sì existe, y hasta ahorita me enterè que la sacan de la zarzaparrilla). Llegué a la ciudad en el dìa de la fiesta de San Agustìn, santo patrono de dicha ciudad, por lo que me tocò procesiòn del santo en el dìa (aquì va amenizada con ... read more