Blogs from Central America Caribbean - page 2148

Alcazar de Diego Colon. Ojo, yo no soy el sanki que sale en la foto. Jean Berger www.hostpupil.com... read more

We left Guatemala today, after a trying day yesterday wandering around Guatemala City picking up my passport, trying to get my plane ticket replaced, and getting a special stamp in my new passport to confirm that I was in fact in Guatemala legally. I just wanted to leave you with a few parting thoughts about Guatemala, in no particular order and not at all related. Ten years ago, Guatemala ended its thirty-year civil war. That means that everyone you meet here between the ages of 15 and 45 grew up in an environment that threatened, and frequently erupted in, violence that remains practically unimaginable to us. This holds particularly true for the Mayan communities of the Altiplano, where a large number of massacres were perpetrated by the military (and occasionally by the guerillas) and entire towns ... read more

Today is the start of my third week in Samara, a little beach village in the Nicoya Peninsula on the Pacific Coast. We got here during Semana Santa, the week that everyone from the city goes to the coast. Our daily routine consisted of going to the beach during the day and going to the bar in the evening. There is one clothes shop here, two mini markets, two bars and one nightclub, so there's not a whole lot more to do. After 2 days we knew most of the people in the town, so by now we're pretty much locals (well, sort of) We've been snorkelling out by Isla Chora where there's a nice reef. One morning we went kayaking which was very relaxing, until my friend Rachel got caught by a wave and ended ... read more

Four days on Jewel Key turned into a week, and still I'm finding it hard to pull myself away. There are three restaurants and a couple of general stores. Every house sits on stilts, just above the water. The people rarely wear shoes and speak this sing-song English that's almost impossible to understand. There's a tiny white church and the "knowledge square," where the men sit around and talk the day away. The week was filled with loads of sunshine, ocean breezes, baleadas for breakfast and fish burgers for lunch, plenty of Salva Vida and some of the best people I've met on this trip. And then there was the diving - I'm officially PADI certified! I wouldn't have done it any other way. The diving went smoothly and was absolutely gorgeous, after a minor near-death ... read more

Jeezze, its been to long my friends! Im having a wonderful time being a dirty hippy at the farm. I work and sweat and paint and talk about mushrooms and pot, take showers only when I want, sleep in hammocks, light nag champa and sage all day and live the fucking good life. Thats what it is, for real. A little carmel colored baby goat has adopted me as his mom or girlfriend. Ive been painting a mandala (a Buddhist prayer wheel) on the inside of the new goat/sheep pen and my little man talks to me all day long! Semana Santa (holy week, the week of Easter) was insane. Over 20 volunteers there for the weekend, so comunal dinner on friday night was outa this world. We did a celebration of the full moon, and ... read more