Blogs from Santa Elena, Petén Region, Guatemala, Central America Caribbean

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We are currently waiting for our bus to whisk us away, first back to the city and then on to Antigua and Lake Atitlan. I´m sitting here in a cute little internet cafe, listening to the hum of a fan, the sound of mopeds and tuk tuks and feeling the heat rising off of my crispy, burnt skin. Today was a good day! We were able to take a boat ride over to the next island and swim and tan ( or fry ' you know ' tomato, tomato, aye ' when you type them you don´t get the different inflections but you know what I mean, wait, where was I?) Ah yes, here I am. This island is beautiful. I haven´t been swimming in over a year or two, so jumping into the lake was ... read more


I make the occasional mistake and pay the price. On this occasion I decided to spend a night in Santa Elena-Flores to take care of some business and because I thought that it would be a pleasant place to stay given that it's situated on a lake far away from the rest of Guatemala. I chose a hotel that would have a place for the Scion to sleep but I lost my bearings on the final approach due to road construction. I thought I was fortunate to find another hotel where the Scion and I could stay for cheap but this was one of those times that you get what you pay for. I failed to notice that there was no screens on the windows and the fan didn't work well enough to mitigate the oppressive ... read more




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