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The fabled Hotel Colonial.

March 26th 2013
Arrival ************* And so we arrive, a little frazzled without our bags, but just happy to be somewhere close to bedtime. With taxi overpaid for, we set off to the central hotel we've booked. Easy peasy we think. Er, not quite. It turns out that Hotel Colonial, 7th avenida is far from enough of an address for a taxi driver to be able to find a place. And so begins one of ... read more

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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

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We are Douglas and Rhona and this is our blog from Central and South America. We're spending three months volunteering for a charity in Jocotan, Guatemala, the centre of a hilly area with a large indigenous Mayan population and a lot of inequality and child malnutrition. Asociacion Santiago Jocotan has various programmes: but primarily it runs a small hospital, and works to reduce the child malnutrition you find in the surrounding villages. While we're here, we'll be helping to improve the financial management and IT of the organisation by sharing what we know. After that, we plan to ta... full info

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