Blogs from San Marcos La Laguna, Western Highlands, Guatemala, Central America Caribbean - page 2

Hey people, Here are some pics of Nicaragua and Honduras for you. I´ll let you see for yourself... Life at Spirit Camp ´09 is going great. We´re about a month in now and I´ve been doing more study than I ever did at uni! We´re learning tarot, astrology and a whole bunch of other stuff based on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. There´s a one month and a three month course that you can do here. I did the Moon course (the one month course) last year and am doing the Sun course now. The last part of the Moon course is a week in silence and us Sunnies join in on that one. This time round it happened to land on my birthday! How amazing it is to spend your birthday in silence. No talking, ... read more

Monday, January 12, 2009 I was picked up by my driver, Freddy Luna, which I arranged thru Pierre, the Parisian man whom I am renting my apt from on Lake Atitlan.... at about 9:45 this morning. We headed to Guatemala City to a large inexpensive grocery store to stock up with provisions for my month stay. I bought more groceries than I probably needed, but all the fruits and veggies looked soooo delicious! We got back in the car at exactly noon, and headed for the lake. I had heard that the lake was a two and a half to three hour drive from GC, but that depends where you are going on the lake! It took us five hours exactly to my door. The drive was spectacular. Breathtaking and Heartbreaking, all at once. Freddy took ... read more

Ok, so we´ve really fallen behind with this so we will have to cut the crap and just get to the point!!! San Marcos was lovely, very quiet and relaxing, we went for a drink in this bar by the lake at about 4pm and then a storm came so we got stuck there for a couple of hours, needless to say we were fairly well on by the time we left and weren´t too bothered about the rain! Nearly got lost on the way back to the room, we´re blaming the lack of light and not the alcohol on that!!! The following morning after I had talked Paul out of staying in San Marcos for a month to do a meditation and detox course we left for another village (or island as Pol seems to ... read more

Lake Atitlan and San Marcos Hannh and I got away for the weekend. It took about 2 hours to get to the lake. What a beautiful place! When I got into my room ($6/night with a shared bath; the most expensive place is around $40/night), I noticed the light didn´t work. When I looked at the ceiling light, there was no light bulb. So, down to the desk I went to ask for a light bulb. Keep in mind that very few people here speak English, and, of course, neither did the woman at the desk. I told her there was no light in my room, and she giggled. I quickly realized that I had said in Spanish, "There is no light in my food." Well, "cuarto" (room) and "comida" (food) are close, aren´t they? Needless ... read more

ja wiedermal nach einer halsbrecherischen busfahrt mit den sagenumwobenen chickenbuses welche wie gewohnt, fahren wie die bekloppten, irreschnell, umsomehr leute , umsomehr rasen.. andere logik kann ich nicht erkennen, plus einer laengeren fahrt mit cracksuechtigen tuctucfahrern (wasn tuctuc? son 3 raedriges piaggoding.. wie kohli mal gehabt hat.. wisst ihr eigentlich das man mit denen auf die seite kippen kann? geht ganz einfach :-) dann einfach aussteigen und wieder aufstellen..), bin ich dann doch mal endlich an einem ort angekommen. dieser wirkt angenehm, so habe ich auf einem kleinen huegel ein hostal gefunden, mit seeblick und (!) tonstudio (!) tja... und sonst so.. .ja.. hier so n see, welcher mal ein vulkan war, darauf aber mal ex - und vorallem aber implodiert ist (oder sagt man dem anders?).. somit hat sich hier ein see gebildet, welcher von ... read more