Livingston, Rio Dulce, Tikal

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January 30th 2007

Published: January 31st 2007

Back in Antigua after a long weekend traveling from Antigua to Livingston, Rio Dulce, and then on to the infamous Tikal ruins in the northern Guatemalan jungle. Check out the map. (Antigua to Puerto Barrios to Flores and back) It was another great weekend with a few friends from the trip to Semuc Champey last weekend, and a few new friends from Holland, England, and Israel. We left Antigua ... Read Full Entry

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Tikal 6

Started raining while we were at top of Temple IV- so refreshing! Nicole, Charlotte, Lisa, Derek

Tikal 7

Tikal Gumby

Flores

Our hotel near Tikal- SO nice to dip in the pool

Flores 2

View from hotel balcony

Ride home

Los Líquidos son deliciosos!

Ride home 2

Nicole (Holland), Charlotte (London), Lisa (San Francisco)

Ride home 3

Hotel in Antigua

Hotel Antigua 2

1st February 2007

Bea and Cliff
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So cool!
Hi! It's wonderful to travel along with you- love your comments about tourists documenting and not experiencing.... great photos , and you look so happy! BTW, it'll be minus 13 F here on Sat night....hugs from Wisconsin

1st February 2007

jessica
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Tikal
Hey Great pics. Isnt TikAl amazing? You should check out this video. : http://travelistic.com/video/show/327 It's incredible

6th February 2007

Sue
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Fun details
Thanks for sharing. We're planning an eight-day trip from the US to Guatemala, and I'm trying to get a sense for where and how to spend our time. I appreciate your sensitivity to the culture and your thirst to pick up the language. Animo, tu puedes!

7th February 2007

jeremy
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another side to livingston
hey - do you remember star wars - the original? you got the same shot on you blog that was in the movie (that is, minus the reble x-wing fighters taking off over the jungle canopy). anyway... off to more intelligent commentary: one interesting thing about livingston is that there is a very strong tension between the original garifuna inhabitants and the latin arrivals. many of the hotels and restaurants (basically anything making tourist bucks) are owned by latin americans. not surprisingly this has led to a strong feeling of resentment by the original locals - and has led to riots and such in the past. under that happy carribean facade there's quite a bit of conflict and politics. i don't know if much of this has been resolved, but when i was there some years ago, i found out that the hotel that i was staying at had almost been burnt down a few weeks prior by a mob of angry and frustrated garifuna folk.

9th February 2007

lisasmom
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glad you're happy
Hey, Dr Daughter, the photos are simply beautiful. It's nice to see you expanding your network of friends and your global horizons at the same time. You are amazing. Love you and your love of life. btw, hi Jeremy!

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