Blogs from Central America Caribbean - page 1908

That´s the number one rule of diving as we found out in our first class of our open water dive course. We arrived in Utila with numerous recommendations for a dive shop called Alton´s, this was good as it saved us having to wander round with all our stuff checking out what everyone was offering! Alton´s was right at the end of a long sweeping bay that comprised the main town of Utila, a little out of the way but that turned out to be a good thing as the shop and its accomodation were right on the water. We could walk out of our room and see fish swimming around under the dock in the morning and sit at the end of the dock with a beer and watch the sunset over th ocean in ... read more

San Pedro has treated us great, but it´s time to get a move on. We are Chichi bound tomorrow for the Sunday market. It took us about 10 minutes to figure it out, but we´ve spent 11 days here in San Pedro. Now I finally don´t hit the deck everytime I hear the regular artillary shell blasts. Sounds like the town is being bombed, but they´re just celebrating something. Hotel San Francicso was our lovely abode with fabulous views and the sweetest of people running it. Our only strange encounters there were a curious cowboy who came creeping up asking how much our Ipod cost...we averted conversation...and the spiritual shamen wanting to sell us his Mayan flutes and mother earth carvings to supposedly protect us from evil spirits...he was a talented salesman, and full of crap. ... read more

I know, I am really lazy, but sorry, I´ve been living and not wasting my spare time on the internet. Things are going here, new adventures (which are often always the same) happen daily. I remember one morning, we left here (Xela) at 8 am on a Saturday morning. It was almost still dark out and clouds filled the views, giving everyone awake slight chills. We made our way to the bus terminal, a grudgey, gross place and a long ugly walk from where one urban mini-bus drops you off to the massive bus Terminal called Minerva. Here you can find buses going almost anywhere in Guatemala. That day we were going to Lake Atitlan. As we came out from the heart of the highlands, to just a little bit lower (though not too much, still ... read more

This morning we woke relatively early, ate our baked goods and went to my favorite beach on St. Thomas: Lindquist Bay. Lindquist is one of the few undeveloped beaches on the island, and this has been controversial recently. All beaches in the Virgin Islands are public, and landowners must provide reasonable access to the public over land. Lindquist was bought by a large US developer, fences were put up, and several years of lock and fence cutting took place on the trail to the beach. Now, the fence is open for pedestrian traffic, and a security guard actually sits (naps) there and makes sure no cars drive in. Apparently the people are trying to take the land under eminent domain and keep the beach undeveloped. Despite the local popularity of the beach, on a weekday, we ... read more