Our guide burning his walking stick in one of the 'vents' into the live lava

Grasping Great, Green Guatemala - my Gripping, Graphic Glorification - Grrrr ;)

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May 5th 2010
Having been to, clambered around and written about far too many ruins in the last couple of months, I just couldn’t bear to neither write nor subject you, my patient readers, to yet another of my accounts of our visit to a pile of rocks. So I enlisted help in the shape of the boyfriend to try and “mix it up”. Introducing Elliott the Travel Blogger: Tikal Tikal was appar ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Capital Region » Antigua

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The Maya civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experience... ... read more